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UNINA9910452961703321 |
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Autore |
Weis Anthony John <1973-> |
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The ecological hoofprint : the global burden of industrial livestock / / Tony Weis |
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London ; ; New York : , : Zed Books, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1-78032-099-X |
1-78032-254-2 |
1-78032-096-5 |
1-78032-098-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Livestock systems - Environmental aspects |
Livestock - Environmental aspects |
Meat industry and trade - Environmental aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Praise for The Ecological Hoofprint; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and boxes; Introduction: meatification and why it matters; The vector of meatification; 0.1 Global per capita meat consumption; Rising attention; Box 0.1 Rising attention: selected examples from media, film, and the internet; The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex and the ecological hoofprint; Outline and arguments; 1 Contextualizing the hoofprint: global environmental change and inequality; Agriculture and the creeping simplification of ecosystems |
From creeping to careening: the accelerating pace and scale of ecological changeThe destruction of diversity; Into the Anthropocene: risks and regressivity; An insatiable species? The 'population bomb' and biophysical limits to growth; Box 1.1 Population advocacy: selected examples; 1.1 Human population, 0-2050 CE; An insatiable economic order? Contesting environmentalisms; Ecological and atmospheric footprints: foregrounding inequality; Box 1.2 Footprint 'calculators': |
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selected examples; Box 1.3 Climate justice advocacy: selected examples; Agriculture's ecological footprint |
1.2 The magnitude of livestock production in global land useApproaching the ecological hoofprint; 2 The uneven geography of meat; Domestication and multifunctionality; The ambiguous contract; Livestock and changing views of nature in early modern Europe; Meat in empire and livestock on new frontiers; The US west: from great livestock frontier to assembly-line slaughter; Meatification in 'development' and surplus disposal; The perilous dependence on cheap grain imports; 2.1 World hunger distribution; 2.2 World meat consumption per capita; The continuing race up the animal protein ladder |
2.3 Per capita meat consumption, 1961-2010, selected examples2.4 Meat production by volume, 1961-2010, selected examples; 2.5 Relative world meat production by animal group: three snapshots; 2.6 World meat production by animal group, 1961-2010; 3 The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex; Scale imperatives: mechanization, standardization, and simplification; The promise of industrial efficiency; Problematizing efficiency: instabilities and overrides in industrial monocultures; 3.1 The through-flow of industrial monocultures |
The magnifying effect of industrial livestock, part I: burning usable nutritionThe magnifying effect of industrial livestock, part II: more instabilities and overrides; 3.2 The through-flow of industrial livestock production; 3.3 The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex; 4 Confronting the hoofprint: towards a sustainable, just, and humane world; The ecological hoofprint; 4.1 The ecological hoofprint of industrial livestock production; 4.2 Estimated total livestock-related GHG emissions; A dangerous and regressive course and the need to rethink efficiency |
The de-meatification imperative - to what ends? |
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The Ecological Hoofprint is a rigorous and eye-opening explanation of how industrial livestock production is driving the exploding global consumption of meat, which is implicated in momentous but greatly under-appreciated problems. Tony Weis, author of the ground-breaking The Global Food Economy, shows what this means for the health of the planet, how it contributes to worsening human inequality, and how it constitutes a profound but invisible aspect of the violence of everyday life. |
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UNINA9910438013603321 |
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Autore |
Wells Francis C |
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The heart of Leonardo / / Francis C. Wells |
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London, : Springer-Verlag, 2013 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Foreword by HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales -- Foreword by Martin Kemp -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Making of a Master: Leonardo, His Life and Times -- Leonardo, Anatomist or Natural Philosopher? -- Leonardo’s Use of Drawing -- Leonardo Da Vinci Drawings -- Leonardo’s Heart -- Leonardo: A Personal Legacy -- Leonardo Scholarship and the Cataloguing of the Anatomical Manuscripts -- Bibliography. |
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The dynamic nature of heart action and the ever changing demands on its output and power make it an organ that can only be understood by integrating form with function at every level. Our contemporary understanding of the human heart and its workings is at the cutting edge of modern medical and biological research but, even in the current era of advanced molecular biology, mathematics and engineering, we still struggle to fully decipher the complexities of the normal and diseased heart. Leonardo’s heart studies represent the pinnacle of his anatomical endeavours. In his work on the heart, his use of ingenious diagrams as well as detailed representational drawings is cleverly combined with carefully crafted verbal descriptions of complicated physiological concepts. Some of his thinking, developed through drawing, was so advanced that only now with the advent of accessible technology and advances in modern knowledge of the heart, |
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it is possible to re-interpret Leonardo’s conclusions and to point out how accurate his logical reasoning and pure observation really was. Several of his ideas continue to sit well alongside our modern understanding of cardiac physiology and heart function. This book will feature all of Leonardo's drawings on the heart and its physiology, accompanied by translations of his accompanying notes. The veracity of Leonardo's work is proven against contemporary dissections of cardiac structure and wherever possible, his illustrations are compared with contemporary images generated by magnetic resonance scanners and high definition ultrasound. It represents the only modern interpretation of Leonardo’s works by a practicing clinician and anatomist in a way that is meaningful to cardiology and medical specialists as well as art historians, and the general public. |
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