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1. The Green Revolution Revisited

   Critique and Alternatives

   Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. Learning From China?

   Development and Environment in Third World Countries

   Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples’ Republic of China. It covers industrialisation, food production, energy use and landscape and settlement planning. The...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environment, Development, Agriculture

   Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology

   By Bernhard Glaeser

   This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes. Part One deals with theory, including a comprehensive introduction to the field and an...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. Environment, Development, Agriculture

   Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology

   By Bernhard Glaeser Goteborg University, Sweden., Glaeser, Bernhard

   An account of key issues in environment and development that drives arguments through from case studies to policy implications and implementation, this text draws widely from the literature, treating the topic in a human-ecology perspective....

   Published June 28th 1995 by Routledge