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Competing for the Future

COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES FOR SEIZING CONTROL OF YOUR INDUSTRY AND CREATING THE MARKETS OF TOMORROW GARY HAMEL & C.K. PRAHALAD HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS                       1994   Preface and acknowledgments The book you are holding is the record of a unique partnership spanning seventeen years. In 1977 one off us (Gary) was a …

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A Green History of the World Part 13

A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS              2007 PART XIII Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Agriculture and the environment The huge increase in the amount of land under cultivation, the extension of pasture land into new areas and the intensification of …

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The Real Environmental Crisis Part 1

THE REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS WHY POVERTY, NOT AFFLUENCE, IS THE ENVIRONMENT’S NUMBER ONE ENEMY JACK M. HOLLANDER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS                       2003 PART 1   Preface The draft of this book was completed barely a month before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, thrust an entirely new set of problems and priorities onto the …

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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 15

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART XV 12.8 What chance a brown revolution? The ‘Green Revolution’ has particularly benefited crop production in areas with irrigation or a sufficient and reliable enough rainfall to guarantee returns on inputs such as fertilizers. The spread of modern varieties into …

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A Green History of the World Part 12

A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS              2007 PART XII Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Agriculture in the developing world The recent agricultural history of the developing world has been very different from that of the industrialized world. These countries had …

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Eating Animals Part 8

EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS                       2009 PART VIII   Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness (Cont.) More influences Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health: most obviously the now widely recognized relationship between …

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