Geographies of agriculture : globalisation, restructuring and sustainability / / Guy M. Robinson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790985503321
• Autore: Robinson G. M (Guy M.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-138-83762-8; 1-315-83950-4; 1-317-88006-4; 1-317-88007-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (889 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1/09
• Soggetti: Agricultural geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2004 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Agricultural systems; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The agri-ecosystem; 1.3 Climate and agriculture; 1.3.1 Temperature; 1.3.2 Water; 1.4 Agricultural soils; 1.4.1 Soil classification; 1.5 Energy; 1.6 Climatic change and agriculture; 1.7 Classifying agricultural systems; 1.7.1 Land classification; 1.7.2 Land use classification; 1.7.3 Type-of-farming regions; 1.8 Conclusion; 2. The changing focus of agricultural geography; 2.1 'Traditional' agricultural geography2.2 Behavioural approaches; 2.2.1 Actor networks; 2.3 Political economy approaches; 2.3.1 Critiques of the political economy approach; 2.4 New theories to explain agricultural change; 2.4.1 Food regimes; 2.4.2 Regulation theory; 2.4.3 The agrarian question; 2.5 Conclusion; 3. Globalisation of agricultural production; 3.1 The nature of globalisation; 3.2 Globalisation and agri-food production; 3.3 From productivist to post-productivist agriculture?; 3.3.1 Agricultural restructuring; 3.3.2 Productivism; 3.3.3 Post-productivism and its critique; 4. Agri-food networks4.1 Food retailing and consumption; 4.2 The corporate retailers; 4.3 The alternative food economy; 4.3.1 The nature of the alternative food economy; 4.3.2 Local connections and identities; ; 4.4 Conclusion; 5. Government and agriculture in the Developed World; 5.1 The goals of agricultural policy; 5.2 The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union; 5.2.1 Overview; 5.2.2 Increased production; 5.2.3 Environmental disbenefits; 5.3 Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy; 5.3.1 The American experience of set-aside; 5.3.2 Regulation 1094/88: voluntary set-aside in the European Union5.3.3 The Arable Area Payments Scheme; 5.3.4 Milk quotas; 5.3.5 Agenda 2000; 5.4 Agriculture and the expansion of the European Union; 5.4.1 Land reforms in the Central and East Europe Countries; 5.4.2 Land reforms in Poland; 5.4.3 Land reforms in Hungary; 5.5 Macro-level change; 5.5.1 Challenges to traditional farmer-state relations; 5.5.2 Coloured boxes and multifunctionality; 5.5.3 Some comparisons with US policy; 6. Specialisation and diversification; 6.1 Specialisation; 6.1.1 Crop production; 6.1.2 Livestock production; 6.2 The survival of family farming6.2.1 The agrarian question revisited; 6.2.2 The decline of the farm workforce; 6.3 Farm diversification and pluriactivity; 6.3.1 Defining farm diversification; 6.3.2 Motives for and impacts of diversification; 6.3.3 The role of women in farm diversification; 6.3.4 Diversification into farm-based tourism and recreation; 6.4 Conclusion; 7. The 'other side' of globalisation: farming in Developing Countries; 7.1 Differential impacts of globalisation; 7.2 The dual economy; 7.3 The 'advancing wave' of commercialisation; 7.3.1 The retreat of subsistence production; 7.3.2 The impacts of colonialism on indigenous farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Britain and Ireland, 1880-1955 / / edited by Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974256003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 9780191549434; 0191549436
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 955 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): BrookerPeter; ThackerAndrew <1962->
• Disciplina: 052.09034
• Soggetti: Little magazines - History - 19th century; Little magazines - History - 20th century; Literature and society - History - 19th century; Literature and society - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [899]-930) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Victorian precursors -- pt. 2. Fin de siecle ventures (1884-1906) -- pt. 3. Early statements (1899-1915) -- pt. 4. Transitions -- pt. 5. Interventions -- pt. 6. Editors and programmes -- pt. 7. Into the 1920s: dispersal and difference -- pt. 8. Commitment to the new -- pt. 9. Beyond the metropolis -- pt. 10. The call to criticism and modernist destinies.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first full study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism. A major scholarly achievement of immense value to teachers, researchers and students interested in the material culture of the first half of the 20th century and the relation of the arts to social modernity.