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Insatiable appetite [[electronic resource] ] : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world / / Richard P. Tucker
| Insatiable appetite [[electronic resource] ] : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world / / Richard P. Tucker |
| Autore | Tucker Richard P. <1938-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (567 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7/0913 |
| Soggetto topico |
Tropical crops - Economic aspects - History - 20th century
Tropical crops - Environmental aspects - History - 20th century Investments, American - Tropics - History - 20th century Environmental degradation - Tropics - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
american history bananas beef biodiversity caribbean central america civilization coffee commerce commodities conservation cultivation ecology environment environmental history environmental impact environmentalism forest free trade land speculation latin american history monocrops nonfiction pacific plantations rubber south america southeast asia sugar timber trade transnational history tropical crops tropical lands tropical ports tropics west africa white mans burden |
| ISBN |
0-520-92381-2
1-282-35645-3 9786612356452 1-59734-678-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. America's Sweet Tooth: The Sugar Trust And The Caribbean Lowlands -- 2. Lords Of The Pacific: Sugar Barons In The Hawaiian And Philippine Islands -- 3. Banana Republics: Yankee Fruit Companies And The Tropical American Lowlands -- 4. The Last Drop: The American Coffee Market And The Hill Regions Of Latin America -- 5. The Tropical Cost Of The Automotive Age: Corporate Rubber Empires And The Rainforest -- 6. The Crop On Hooves: Yankee Interests In Tropical Cattle Ranching -- 7. Unsustainable Yield: American Foresters And Tropical Timber Resources -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780080603321 |
Tucker Richard P. <1938->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 | ||
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Plant Adaptation to Global Climate Change
| Plant Adaptation to Global Climate Change |
| Autore | Mishra Amit Kumar |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Soggetto topico | Research & information: general |
| Soggetto non controllato |
actual evapotranspiration
agro-ecosystems air temperature allometric correlations anthesis and maturity date bananas basal area increment biodiversity Black Sigatoka Leaf Disease climate climate change climate change impacts conservation crop impacts crop yield distance gradient DSSAT model East Africa ecological niche Ethiopia highlands farm work GIS global spread & grapevine ground habitat suitability harvested area heat stress HRDE impact infrared thermography isoprenoid exchanges leaf area index leaf temperature litter emissions MapMan analysis Mediterranean turf mitigation modified Penman-Monteith n/a P. africana Pinus pinea planting date precipitation production rice sap flow sapwood area sapwood depth scaling methods scenarios seasonal climate SimCLIM soil species distribution species distribution model sugarcane Taylor's power law Thai agriculture thermal imagery tree ring analysis tropical rain forest WBGT weed communities whole genome DNA microarray yield yield loss |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557345803321 |
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Mishra Amit Kumar
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| Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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