Agribusiness and society [[electronic resource] ] : corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation / / Kees Jansen & Sietze Vellema, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , ©2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina |
338.1
630.68 |
Soggetto topico |
Agricultural industries - Environmental aspects
Green products Social responsibility of business Development studies |
ISBN |
1-350-21832-4
1-78032-752-8 1-281-21588-0 1-84813-118-6 9786611215880 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Agribusiness and environmentalism : the politics of technology innovation and regulation / Kees Jansen and Sietze Vellema -- Reconciling shareholders, stakeholders and managers : experiencing the Ciba-Geigy vision for sustainable development / William Vorley -- Monsanto facing uncertain futures : immobile artefacts, financial constraints and public acceptance of technological change / Sietze Vellema -- The appearance and disappearance of the GM tomato : innovation strategy, market formation and the shaping of demand / Mark Harvey -- Contrasting paths of corporate greening in Antipodean agriculture : organics and green production / Kristin Lyons [and others] -- Room for manoeuvre? : (in)organic agribusiness in California / Julie Guthman -- Greening bananas and institutionalizing environmentalism : self-regulation by fruit corporations / Kees Jansen -- The DBCP pesticide cases : seeking access to justice to make agribusiness accountable in the global economy / Erika Rosenthal -- Business and biotechnology : regulation of GM crops and the politics of influence / Dominic Glover and Peter Newell -- Social struggles and the regulation of transgenic crops in Brazil / Victor Pelaez and Wilson Schmidt -- Private versus public? : agenda-setting in international agro-technologies / Paul Richards. |
Altri titoli varianti | Agribusiness & society |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910222223903321 |
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Balancing on a planet : the future of food and agriculture / / David A. Cleveland |
Autore | Cleveland David Arthur |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.1 |
Collana | California Studies in Food and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Food industry and trade
Agricultural industries - Environmental aspects Sustainable agriculture - Economic aspects Food supply |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-520-27742-2
0-520-95708-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface: A Personal History -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Eating Stardust: Population, Food, and Agriculture on Planet Earth -- 2. Agricultural Revolutions -- 3. Thinking Critically about Sustainable Agrifood Systems -- 4. Sustainable Agrifood Systems: Three Emphases -- 5. Managing Evolution: Plant Breeding and Biotechnology -- 6. Managing Agricultural Ecosystems: The Critical Role of Diversity -- 7. Managing People: The Common Property Option -- 8. The Big Solutions: Climate Change, Resource Cycles, and Diet -- 9. The Big Solutions: Localizing Agrifood Systems -- Appendix 1. Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols -- Appendix 2. Metric Units and Metric-English Unit Conversions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453812703321 |
Cleveland David Arthur
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Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Balancing on a planet : the future of food and agriculture / / David A. Cleveland |
Autore | Cleveland David Arthur |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.1 |
Collana | California Studies in Food and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Food industry and trade
Agricultural industries - Environmental aspects Sustainable agriculture - Economic aspects Food supply |
Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
agrifood system breeders cooking country life engaging environmental impact farm life farms and farmers food and ag food lovers food studies food writing food gastronomy global agrifood interdisciplinary primer natural settings politics rural scientific agriculture sociocultural roots technology engineering thorough analysis traditional agriculture |
ISBN |
0-520-27742-2
0-520-95708-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface: A Personal History -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Eating Stardust: Population, Food, and Agriculture on Planet Earth -- 2. Agricultural Revolutions -- 3. Thinking Critically about Sustainable Agrifood Systems -- 4. Sustainable Agrifood Systems: Three Emphases -- 5. Managing Evolution: Plant Breeding and Biotechnology -- 6. Managing Agricultural Ecosystems: The Critical Role of Diversity -- 7. Managing People: The Common Property Option -- 8. The Big Solutions: Climate Change, Resource Cycles, and Diet -- 9. The Big Solutions: Localizing Agrifood Systems -- Appendix 1. Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols -- Appendix 2. Metric Units and Metric-English Unit Conversions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790823603321 |
Cleveland David Arthur
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Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Balancing on a planet : the future of food and agriculture / / David A. Cleveland |
Autore | Cleveland David Arthur |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.1 |
Collana | California Studies in Food and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Food industry and trade
Agricultural industries - Environmental aspects Sustainable agriculture - Economic aspects Food supply |
Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
agrifood system breeders cooking country life engaging environmental impact farm life farms and farmers food and ag food lovers food studies food writing food gastronomy global agrifood interdisciplinary primer natural settings politics rural scientific agriculture sociocultural roots technology engineering thorough analysis traditional agriculture |
ISBN |
0-520-27742-2
0-520-95708-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface: A Personal History -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Eating Stardust: Population, Food, and Agriculture on Planet Earth -- 2. Agricultural Revolutions -- 3. Thinking Critically about Sustainable Agrifood Systems -- 4. Sustainable Agrifood Systems: Three Emphases -- 5. Managing Evolution: Plant Breeding and Biotechnology -- 6. Managing Agricultural Ecosystems: The Critical Role of Diversity -- 7. Managing People: The Common Property Option -- 8. The Big Solutions: Climate Change, Resource Cycles, and Diet -- 9. The Big Solutions: Localizing Agrifood Systems -- Appendix 1. Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols -- Appendix 2. Metric Units and Metric-English Unit Conversions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828346703321 |
Cleveland David Arthur
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Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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A review of possible causes of nutrient enrichment and decline of endangered sucker populations in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon / / by Gilbert C. Bortleson and Marvin O. Fretwell |
Autore | Bortleson Gilbert Carl <1940-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Portland, Oregon : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 24 pages) : illustrations, maps (1 color) |
Collana | Water-resources investigations report |
Soggetto topico |
Catostomidae - Conservation - Oregon - Upper Klamath Lake
Eutrophication - Oregon - Upper Klamath Lake Lake ecology - Oregon - Upper Klamath Lake Agricultural industries - Environmental aspects - Oregon - Upper Klamath Lake Agricultural industries - Environmental aspects Eutrophication Lake ecology |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910715942303321 |
Bortleson Gilbert Carl <1940->
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Portland, Oregon : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1993 | ||
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Sustainable food systems : the role of the city / / Robert Biel |
Autore | Biel Robert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : UCL Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vi, 145 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.19 |
Soggetto topico |
Agricultural industries - Management
Agricultural industries - Environmental aspects |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Searching for a new model of food and farming -- The mainstream farming paradigm : what went wrong? -- How systems change : crisis and rift -- Embracing complexity : the earth system, land and soil -- Dialectics of a (re)discovered sustainability -- Political dimensions : agriculture and class struggle -- Towards a new paradigm : practical guidelines -- Regenerating the earth system, working with climate -- Food, imperialism and dependency -- Built systems, biomimicry and urban food-growing -- Autonomy, radicalism and the commons. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910669802103321 |
Biel Robert
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London : , : UCL Press, , 2016 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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