Feeding the Planet: Environmental Protection through Sustainable Agriculture
The alarming increase in the human population, with its immense need for agriculturally productive land and its growing environmental degradation, has pushed the Earth's biosphere to the breaking point. Qualitative progress must quickly lead to a type of agriculture that combines high productiv...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
Chicago Distribution Center
2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34743054*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FEEDING THE PLANET: Environmental Protection through Sustainable Agriculture; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Human Population and Ecological Consequences; Early Phase and the Neolithic Revolution; The Scientific/Technological Revolution; Reduced Biodiversity; Ambivalence of Progress; Priority of Existential Basic Needs; Practical Consequences; The Challenge.
- Early Stages of Cultural EvolutionThe Fertile Crescent; Advanced Civilizations of the Bronze Age; European Antiquity in Greece and Rome; From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era; The Present.
- The Goal in RetrospectResolved and Unresolved Dangers; The Spread of Pathogens; The Turning Point: From Being Threatened by Nature to Threatening Nature Itself; The Third Phase: Protection of the Biosphere; Conflicting Aspects of Agriculture; Fertilization Against Soil Depletion; Fighting Weeds; Fighting Pathogens and Animal Pests; Fertilization and Protection of Plants: Intensive
- Alternative
- Integrated.
