Environment & Agriculture Paperbacks

New and Published Books – Page 1

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. Mountain World in Danger

   Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe

   By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

   Series: Sustainable Development Set

   The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. New Seeds and Poor People

   By Michael Lipton, Richard Longhurst

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1989, this book deals with the impact of cereal production upon the Third World, specifically ‘Modern Varieties’ (MVs). Using evidence from plant breeding, economics and nutrition science, the authors seek to pinpoint what has been achieved, what has gone wrong and what needs to...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Human Health and Forests

   A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy

   Edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of people. This book, written for a broad audience, is...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Development and the Environmental Crisis

   Red or Green Alternatives

   By Michael Redclift

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1984, Michael Redclift’s book makes the global environmental crisis a central concern of political economy and its structural causes a central concern of environmentalism. Michael Redclift argues that a close analysis of the environmental crisis in the South reveals the...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Food and Poverty

   The Political Economy of Confrontation

   By Radha Sinha

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution of world resources. The book deals with the issue of malnutrition in the Third World, which owes much...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Food Aid and the Developing World

   Four African Case Studies

   By Christopher Stevens

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects. Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid from the UK,...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Developing Countries

   A Study Prepared for the International Labour Office within the Framework of the World Employment Programme

   Edited by Ajit Kumar Ghose

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   Initially published in 1983, in association with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), this book is about the meaning, relevance and process of agrarian reform in contemporary developing countries. It includes seven detailed case studies – one each on Ethiopia, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Iran,...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
10. Agricultural Development and Economic Integration in Latin America

    By Montague Yudelman, Frederic Howard

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1970, this study is concerned with both the theoretical and the practical problems involved with agricultural development and economic integration in Latin America, with particular emphasis on those countries which are embraced by the Latin American Free Trade Association.The...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge