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  • - Nebraska's New Agriculture
    by Mary Ridder
    £17.99

  • - Social Values in Urban Governance
    by Serin D. Houston
    £20.99 - 31.49

    Explores some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in contemporary discourse and practice in American cities.

  • - Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains
     
    £47.49

  • - Water for a Dry Land
    by John Opie
    £23.99

    Provides an environmental history and historical geography that tells the story of human defiance and human commitment within the Ogallala region. It describes the Great Plains' natural resources, the history of settlement and dryland farming, and the remarkable irrigation technologies that have industrialized farming in the region.

  • - Carbon, America, and the Culture That May Save Us
    by Susan Subak
    £17.99

    Uses previously untapped sources to discover and explore various low-carbon locations. In Washington DC, Chicago suburbs, lower Manhattan, and Amish settlements in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Susan Subak examines the built and social environment to discern the characteristics that contribute to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.

  • by William Lockeretz
    £34.99

    Analyzes the potential and the limits of various research approaches associated with alternative agriculture. This title proposes reforms in institutional aspects of agricultural research - the organization of academic departments, evaluation of professional achievement, functioning of grant programs, and the education of agricultural researchers.

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    £39.99

    Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water. This volume argues that instead of changing the environment, we can change the adaptation of the plants that we grow in it.

  • - Plant Biodiversity in Global Context
    by Lawrence Busch
    £44.49

    Addresses issues previously viewed as primarily technical concerning the germplasm debate: that is, how, what, and where to store the range of genetic materials necessary to reproduce plants. By examining Brazil, Chile, France, and the United States, tis book shows how different cultures respond to the decline in genetic diversity.

  • - Management of the National Forests since World War Two
    by Paul W. Hirt
    £17.99

    Confronted with the dual mandate of production and preservation, the US Forest Service decided it could achieve both goals through more intensive management. This title explains the controversy raging over the US Forest Service's management of America's national forests.

  • - A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
    by Alan Boye
    £15.49

    When the author first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise - until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. This book chronicles these two remarkable attempts to live simply in two disparate American eras.

  • - The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
    by Ozzie Zehner
    £23.99

    We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis.

  • - Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth
    by Huey D. Johnson
    £15.49

    Green plans are strategies developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. This overview of green plans provides an examination of their theory, implementation, and performance across the globe, highlighting the challenges and successes of green plans in different countries.

  • - The Struggle over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska
    by Carolyn Johnsen
    £15.49

    Draws on interviews, archival material, and the author's own extensive experience as a journalist to present a timely, informative account of the complicated and troubling agricultural practice in Nebraska - and to put a human face on its causes and consequences. The result is the story of a struggle for the heart and soul of rural America.

  • - Why Organic Farming Works
    by Leslie A. Duram
    £16.49

    A provocative and fascinating look at the benefits of organic farming; essential for farmers, consumers, and policymakers.

  • - A Reference Guide to Urban Sprawl
     
    £23.99

    Urban sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. This book delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning to some of America's top thinkers on the problem. It explores the core issues of urban sprawl and the agenda for dealing with it.

  • - Knowledge and Community in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement
    by Neva Hassanein
    £23.99

    Traces the manner in which alternative farmers have developed and exchanged their own personal, local knowledge as a basis for moving toward an agricultural system that is ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. This book studies the patterns of local and regional networks in Wisconsin that disseminate agricultural methods.

  • - Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945
    by Michael Johnston Grant
    £26.49

    Examines the lower to middle-income family farmers and the rural rehabilitation program designed to help them.

  • - Sustainability in American Agriculture
    by John E. Ikerd
    £14.99

    With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms. This collection describes what sustainable agriculture is, why it began, and how it can succeed.

  • - The Great Dakota Water War
    by Peter Carrels
    £18.49

    Examines the history of Missouri River water development projects in general and describes the struggle over one of the largest of those projects, South Dakota's Oahe irrigation project, in detail.

  • by Daniel S. Licht
    £20.99 - 22.49

    The Great Plains were once characterized by vast expanses of grass, complex interdependence among species, and dynamic annual changes due to weather, waterways, and fire. It is now generally accepted that less than one percent of the original tallgrass prairie remains. Daniel Licht offers here a bold new approach to restoring and conserving the grassland ecosystem.

  • - Strategies for Sustainability
     
    £20.99

    Examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption as a way to overcome some of the negative implications of industrial and globalizing trends in the food and agricultural system. This work describes the many efforts throughout North America that can improve social and health outcomes.

  • - The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power
     
    £47.49

    In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution.

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