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  • Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene

    Challenges, Contested Knowledge, and the Need for Change

    Edición de Allison Marie Loconto, Douglas H Constance ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene. The human footprint on the planet can no longer be denied. One of the greatest and most essential human innovations, agriculture, is being increasingly recognised as a leading contributor to climate change. According to global governance bodies, the world will need to ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

  • The Methodology of Political Economy

    Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix

    de J.I. Bakker, William Ashton, Kenneth Bessant, Alessandro Bonanno, Douglas H. Constance, Gervan Fearon, Anthony M. Fuller, Archibald Orben Haller, William J. Haller, Robert Kleiner0, William Alex McIntosh1, Sonya Salamon2, Andreas Peder Sørensen3, Tom Sørensen4, Alexander I. Stingl5, Carol A. Jenkins6 ...
    The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes clear, we cannot limit ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System

    Edición de Douglas H. Constance, Jason T. Konefal, Maki Hatanaka ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability.Using an incremental/reformist to transformation/radical continuum framework for alternative agrifood movements, this book identifies tensions ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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    Problems, Policy and Practice

    de Hayley Stevenson ...
    Concern about humanity's impact on the planet has never been greater, but what are the drivers of environmental change? This wide-ranging introductory textbook outlines the competing explanations of why environmental problems occur and examines the different political approaches taken to address them. Adopting a case study approach, Hayley Stevenson enables students to gain a detailed ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Science and Technology for Development

    de James Smith ...
    Series series Development Matters
    How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication -- but the potential of new technologies has frequently bypassed the poorest people and the ... Leer más

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  • Green Growth

    Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

    Edición de Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira ...
    The discourse of 'green growth' has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model.But the green growth project is deeply ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Geographies of Food

    An Introduction

    de Moya Kneafsey, Damian Maye, Lewis Holloway, Professor Michael K. Goodman ...
    What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays ... Leer más

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  • Renewing innovation systems in agriculture and food

    How to go towards more sustainability?

    Edición de H. Devautour, C.T. Soulard, G. Faure, B. Hubert, E. Coudel ...
    Present-day society asks more from agriculture than just the production of food. Agriculture is now required to be concerned with the quality of food, ecosystem services, inclusion of marginalized populations, revitalization of rural territories, energy production, etc. This opening up of the future of agriculture encourages rural actors to experiment with new farming systems, using imagination, ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development

    Edición de Michael Redclift, Delyse Springett ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector

    Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring

    Edición de Alessandro Bonanno, Steven Wolf ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements emerged from and advanced academic and popular beliefs about the virtues of private, market-based ... Leer más

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  • Surviving Collapse

    Building Community toward Radical Sustainability

    de Christina Ergas ...
    As major environmental crises loom, Christina Ergas makes the argument in Surviving Collapse that one possible way forward is a radical sustainable development that turns the focus from monetary gain to social and ecological regeneration and transformation. Employing qualitative and cross-national comparative methods, Ergas examines two alternative, community-scale, socioecological models of ... Leer más

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  • Degrowth

    A Vocabulary for a New Era

    Edición de Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis ...
    Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD