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  • Contaminated Soils in Mexico

    A Green Criminological Approach

    by José Guadalupe Chan-Quijano, Jesús Ignacio Castro-Salazar, José Luis Carpio-Domínguez ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book uses a green criminology lens to analyze strategies to minimize and propose alternatives on the damage caused to humans and environmental health by contaminated soils in Mexico, by recognizing that the effective application of laws is crucial for the conservation of soils. In this sense, from the perspective of contaminated soils, the compilation of data and experiences of the growing ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Synthesis for the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    based largely on information provided in fourteen country reports submitted to FAO as part of the reporting process for the report on The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture.Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic ... Read more

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  • Scientific Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Plant Pests: A Global Challenge to Prevent and Mitigate Plant-Pest Risks in Agriculture, Forestry and Ecosystems

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Climate change represents an unprecedented challenge to the world's biosphere and to the global community. It also represents a unique challenge for plant health. Human activities and increased market globalization, coupled with rising temperatures, has led to a situation that is favourable to pest movement and establishment. This scientific review assesses the potential effects of climate change ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

    Lessons from Cuba

    by Julia Wright ...
    When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

    Edited by Diana Perez-Staples, Francisco Diaz-Fleischer, Pablo Montoya, Maria Vera ...
    Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication*. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests* comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse ... Read more

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  • Coffee Agroecology

    A New Approach to Understanding Agricultural Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

    by Ivette Perfecto, John Vandermeer ...
    Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a sustainable agricultural ecosystem. It draws on the authors' own research conducted over the last twenty years as well as incorporating the vast literature that has been generated on coffee agroecosystems from ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

    The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization

    by Manuel González de Molina, David Soto Fernández, Gloria Guzmán Casado, Juan Infante-Amate, Eduardo Aguilera Fernández, Jaime Vila Traver, Roberto García Ruiz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolism ... Read more

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  • Better City, Better Life

    by Lin Chau Ming, Renata Cardoso Magagnin, Wenhua Wang ...
    The book Better City, Better Life brings together papers from different disciplines of researchers who have in common the theme Sustainability. This book is intended to reflect on current planning strategies and growth of cities, from the perspective of sustainable development. These reflections approach the spatial, economic, political, social, cultural and environmental model. This book is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living Minerals

    Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium

    by Javiera Barandiaran ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A sobering investigation of the rush for lithium for electric vehicles, the problematic history of lithium mining, and the consequences for sustainability.Consumers today are buying electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries motivated by the belief that they are doing good and decarbonizing society. But is sustainable lithium extraction possible? In Living Minerals, Javiera Barandiarán examines ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Zapotec Science

    Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

    by Roberto J. González ...
    2003 — Julian Steward Award – Anthropology & Environment Section, American Anthropological Association2002 — A CHOICE Outstanding Academic BookHow Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science.Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ecologically ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Water for Food Security and Well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Social and Environmental Implications for a Globalized Economy

    Edited by Bárbara A. Willaarts, Alberto Garrido, M. Ramón Llamas ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Although the book takes a regional approach, covering a vast of data pertaining to most of the LAC region, some chapters focus on seven countries ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Protection of Maize Under the Mexican Biosafety Law

    by Alicia Gutiérrez González ...
    This book analyzes the importance of maize worldwide and the special importance for Mexico as a center of origin and diversity (COD). By adopting a comparative approach, the analysis focuses on how developed and developing countries handle imports of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s). The book also analyzes the impact that GMO maize imports from the USA might have in Mexico as a COD of maize. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus