The ecological hoofprint : the global burden of industrial livestock / / Tony Weis

• Autore: Weis Anthony John <1973->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Zed Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.176
• Soggetto topico: Livestock systems - Environmental aspects; Livestock - Environmental aspects; Meat industry and trade - Environmental aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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': 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The ecological hoofprint
• ISBN: 1-78032-099-X; 1-78032-254-2; 1-78032-096-5; 1-78032-098-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452961703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II