FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART X 9.5 integrated pest management: changing the paradigm The introduction of the Vedalia beetle into California in 1889 to control the cottony-cushion scale of citrus was a spectacular example of the biological control of insect pests. At least, it was …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART VII Chapter 9: The Foundations of Inequality The rise of western Europe after 1500, from being a backward area of the world to one which dominated the rest of the globe, not only …
FORMULA FOR LIFE THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON CORRECT NUTRITION, ANTI-OXIDANTS AND VITAMINS, DISEASE PREVENTION AND LONGEVITY EBERHARD KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. & PHYLLIS KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. WITH HARRY B. DEMOPOULOS, M.D. QUILL WILLIAM MORROW 1989 PART II Chapter 2: why don’t we take better care of ourselves? We are taking good care of ourselves. That’s what we …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART IX 8.4 Silent Spring: The gathering storm In Silent Spring Rachel Carson wrote of the alienation between modern agriculture and nature: ‘Single crop farming does not take advantage of the principles by which nature works. Nature has introduced great variety …
FORMULA FOR LIFE THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON CORRECT NUTRITION, ANTI-OXIDANTS AND VITAMINS, DISEASE PREVENTION AND LONGEVITY EBERHARD KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. & PHYLLIS KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. WITH HARRY B. DEMOPOULOS, M.D. QUILL WILLIAM MORROW 1989 PART I Preface by Harry B. Demopoulos, M.D. Drs. Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen have written a comprehensive treatise on practical health matters …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART VIII Chapter 8: The Fourth Billion (1960-1975) 8.1 Introduction: focus on development It took a century to add the second billion to the world’s population, and 33 years to add the third, but the fourth took only 15 years. The …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART VII Chapter 7: The Third Billion (1927-1960) 7.1 Introduction: Inputs and interactions Adding the second billion to the population of the world had taken a century whereas the third billion took only a third as long. Nevertheless, those 33 years …
Book Review Introduction In Part 4 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that “Until about 300 years ago the world’s population never increased by more than about 0.1% a year – 1/20th of the current rate.” “The 18th century saw the …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART VI Chapter 6: The Second Billion (1825-1927) 6.1 Introduction: The entry of science The population of the world doubled, from one to two billion, in the century following 1825, with most of the increase still being in Asia. The period …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART VII Chapter 12: The World in 500 By the year 500, the culture of wet rice farming with iron tools developed in China was also firmly established in the two countries – Korea and Japan – most exposed to Chinese influence. …
