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 | ||
Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 | ||
Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cheap meat [[electronic resource] ] : flap food nations in the Pacific Islands / / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington |
Autore | Gewertz Deborah B. <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 394.1/20996.5 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ErringtonFrederick Karl |
Soggetto topico |
Nutritional anthropology - Pacific Islands
Lamb meat industry - Pacific Islands Mutton industry - Pacific Islands Animal gut industries - Pacific Islands Food habits - Pacific Islands |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
australia belly meat controversial cuts of meat discount meat ethnic differences ethnographers farms and farmers fatty cuts fatty meat fiji flap food food politics historical human rights inexpensive meat lamb meat farming meat market meat trade mutton new zealand nonfiction nutrition policies pacific islanders pacific islands papua new guinea second class status social issues social nutrition social science tonga trade policies |
ISBN |
1-282-35982-7
9786612359828 0-520-94597-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. What's Not on Our Plates -- ONE. Thinking about Meat -- TWO. Making Flaps -- THREE. Trading Meat -- FOUR. Papua New Guinea's Flaps -- FIVE. Smiles and Shrugs, Worried Eyes and Sighs -- SIX. Pacific Island Flaps -- CONCLUSION. One Supersize Does Not Fit All -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781196303321 |
Gewertz Deborah B. <1948-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cheap meat [[electronic resource] ] : flap food nations in the Pacific Islands / / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington |
Autore | Gewertz Deborah B. <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 394.1/20996.5 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ErringtonFrederick Karl |
Soggetto topico |
Nutritional anthropology - Pacific Islands
Lamb meat industry - Pacific Islands Mutton industry - Pacific Islands Animal gut industries - Pacific Islands Food habits - Pacific Islands |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
australia belly meat controversial cuts of meat discount meat ethnic differences ethnographers farms and farmers fatty cuts fatty meat fiji flap food food politics historical human rights inexpensive meat lamb meat farming meat market meat trade mutton new zealand nonfiction nutrition policies pacific islanders pacific islands papua new guinea second class status social issues social nutrition social science tonga trade policies |
ISBN |
1-282-35982-7
9786612359828 0-520-94597-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. What's Not on Our Plates -- ONE. Thinking about Meat -- TWO. Making Flaps -- THREE. Trading Meat -- FOUR. Papua New Guinea's Flaps -- FIVE. Smiles and Shrugs, Worried Eyes and Sighs -- SIX. Pacific Island Flaps -- CONCLUSION. One Supersize Does Not Fit All -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823003703321 |
Gewertz Deborah B. <1948-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disrupted landscapes : state, peasants and the politics of land in postsocialist Romania / / Stefan Dorondel |
Autore | Dorondel Ștefan <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.7309498 |
Collana | Environment in History: International Perspectives |
Soggetto topico |
Landscape changes - Romania
Deforestation - Romania Peasants - Social conditions - Romania Land use - Environmental aspects - Romania Land use - Political aspects - Romania Social change - Romania Post-communism - Environmental aspects - Romania Neoliberalism - Environmental aspects - Romania Environmental policy - Romania |
Soggetto non controllato |
agrarian landscape
agricultural land agricultural policies business economics corrupt government democracy diplomacy eastern europe engaging environmental economics environmental policy europe european history fall of the soviet union farmers and farming farms and farmers history illegal deforestation national political economies political economies political mechanisms political science political power and wealth public policy revolution romania romanian landscape russian history soviet union |
ISBN | 1-78533-121-3 |
Classificazione | MG 94915 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Privatizing the state and the transformation of the agrarian landscape -- Dragomiresti and dragova : two centuries of ecological and socio-economic transformations -- Postsocialism as neoliberalism reorganizing society and nature -- Bureaucrats, patronage, illegal logging -- Contested forest -- Waning pastures -- Fragmented lands -- Wasted rivers -- Conclusion: A disrupted landscape -- Glossary. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798135203321 |
Dorondel Ștefan <1968-> | ||
New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disrupted landscapes : state, peasants and the politics of land in postsocialist Romania / / Stefan Dorondel |
Autore | Dorondel Ștefan <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.7309498 |
Collana | Environment in History: International Perspectives |
Soggetto topico |
Landscape changes - Romania
Deforestation - Romania Peasants - Social conditions - Romania Land use - Environmental aspects - Romania Land use - Political aspects - Romania Social change - Romania Post-communism - Environmental aspects - Romania Neoliberalism - Environmental aspects - Romania Environmental policy - Romania |
Soggetto non controllato |
agrarian landscape
agricultural land agricultural policies business economics corrupt government democracy diplomacy eastern europe engaging environmental economics environmental policy europe european history fall of the soviet union farmers and farming farms and farmers history illegal deforestation national political economies political economies political mechanisms political science political power and wealth public policy revolution romania romanian landscape russian history soviet union |
ISBN | 1-78533-121-3 |
Classificazione | MG 94915 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Privatizing the state and the transformation of the agrarian landscape -- Dragomiresti and dragova : two centuries of ecological and socio-economic transformations -- Postsocialism as neoliberalism reorganizing society and nature -- Bureaucrats, patronage, illegal logging -- Contested forest -- Waning pastures -- Fragmented lands -- Wasted rivers -- Conclusion: A disrupted landscape -- Glossary. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819863703321 |
Dorondel Ștefan <1968-> | ||
New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The farmworkers' journey [[electronic resource] /] / Ann Aurelia López |
Autore | López Ann Aurelia <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.5/4408968720794 |
Soggetto topico |
Migrant agricultural laborers - California
Migrant agricultural laborers - Mexico |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century american immigration
21st century american politics agricultural economy american history american immigration border crossing california corporate agribusiness democracy economic globalization economics family farm work farmers and farming farms and farmers historical farming practices human condition immigration and emigration mexican american border mexico migrant workers migration nafta political debate politics poverty rural transnational corporations united states of america |
ISBN |
0-520-94057-1
1-282-36020-5 9786612360206 1-4337-0840-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Farmworkers' Journey -- 2. Mexico's Historical Farming Practices -- 3. Aspects of Mexico's Agricultural Political Economy -- 4. Migration Northward to Central California -- 5. Immigration Experiences -- 6. California's Corporate Agribusiness -- 7. Farmworkers in Central California's Corporate Agribusiness -- 8. An Impoverished, Endangered, and Overworked People in the Land of Plenty -- 9. Farmworker Household Survival in Central California -- 10. Meanwhile, Back on the Farm -- 11. Transnational Corporations and the U.S. Legacy in West-Central Mexico -- 12. Endangered Mexican Farmers -- 13. Institutional Oppression in the West-Central Mexico Countryside -- 14. Toward an Enlightened Perception of California's Mexican Agricultural Immigrants -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Agrochemical Inventories and Classifications -- Appendix B: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784420103321 |
López Ann Aurelia <1945-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The farmworkers' journey [[electronic resource] /] / Ann Aurelia López |
Autore | López Ann Aurelia <1945-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.5/4408968720794 |
Soggetto topico |
Migrant agricultural laborers - California
Migrant agricultural laborers - Mexico |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century american immigration
21st century american politics agricultural economy american history american immigration border crossing california corporate agribusiness democracy economic globalization economics family farm work farmers and farming farms and farmers historical farming practices human condition immigration and emigration mexican american border mexico migrant workers migration nafta political debate politics poverty rural transnational corporations united states of america |
ISBN |
0-520-94057-1
1-282-36020-5 9786612360206 1-4337-0840-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Farmworkers' Journey -- 2. Mexico's Historical Farming Practices -- 3. Aspects of Mexico's Agricultural Political Economy -- 4. Migration Northward to Central California -- 5. Immigration Experiences -- 6. California's Corporate Agribusiness -- 7. Farmworkers in Central California's Corporate Agribusiness -- 8. An Impoverished, Endangered, and Overworked People in the Land of Plenty -- 9. Farmworker Household Survival in Central California -- 10. Meanwhile, Back on the Farm -- 11. Transnational Corporations and the U.S. Legacy in West-Central Mexico -- 12. Endangered Mexican Farmers -- 13. Institutional Oppression in the West-Central Mexico Countryside -- 14. Toward an Enlightened Perception of California's Mexican Agricultural Immigrants -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Agrochemical Inventories and Classifications -- Appendix B: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825317103321 |
López Ann Aurelia <1945-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Labor and the locavore : the making of a comprehensive food ethic / / Margaret Gray |
Autore | Gray Margaret <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations, map |
Disciplina | 331.2/97473 |
Soggetto topico |
Agricultural laborers - Abuse of - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Agricultural laborers - Employment - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Labor policy - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) |
Soggetto non controllato |
agrarian values
agriculture cooking culinary culture environmental protection ethnic shift farm life farmers and farming farmers farms and farmers food and ag food studies food sustainability food systems food writing hidden workforce historical development historical roots human trafficking labor industrial relations labor latino workers local food local political ecology small farms social justice sustainable agriculture sustainable food sustenance workers working class working conditions |
ISBN |
0-520-27669-8
0-520-95706-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Is Local Food an Ethical Alternative? -- 1. Agrarianism and Hudson Valley Agriculture -- 2. The Workers: Labor Conditions, Paternalism, and Immigrant Stories -- 3. The Farmers: Challenges of the Small Business -- 4. Sustainable Jobs? Ethnic Succession and the New Latinos -- 5. Toward a Comprehensive Food Ethic -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790539603321 |
Gray Margaret <1968-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Labor and the locavore : the making of a comprehensive food ethic / / Margaret Gray |
Autore | Gray Margaret <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations, map |
Disciplina | 331.2/97473 |
Soggetto topico |
Agricultural laborers - Abuse of - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Agricultural laborers - Employment - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Labor policy - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) |
Soggetto non controllato |
agrarian values
agriculture cooking culinary culture environmental protection ethnic shift farm life farmers and farming farmers farms and farmers food and ag food studies food sustainability food systems food writing hidden workforce historical development historical roots human trafficking labor industrial relations labor latino workers local food local political ecology small farms social justice sustainable agriculture sustainable food sustenance workers working class working conditions |
ISBN |
0-520-27669-8
0-520-95706-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Is Local Food an Ethical Alternative? -- 1. Agrarianism and Hudson Valley Agriculture -- 2. The Workers: Labor Conditions, Paternalism, and Immigrant Stories -- 3. The Farmers: Challenges of the Small Business -- 4. Sustainable Jobs? Ethnic Succession and the New Latinos -- 5. Toward a Comprehensive Food Ethic -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813094503321 |
Gray Margaret <1968-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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