Book Review Introduction In Part 2 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that “The best estimate for the total population of the world about 10,000 years ago, just before the adoption of agriculture in a few areas, was not more than …
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES JEAN GIONO WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY MICHAEL McCURDY CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1985 PART I For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding …
Book Review Introduction In Part 1 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that since the fall of the Soviet Union “billions of tons of carbon dioxide have been put into the atmosphere and the threat of global warming is even more …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART XVI PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 27: Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries by Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine (Cont) Improvements in soil health and fertility Soil health is fundamental for agricultural sustainability, …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART V PART 2: THE TRAPS Chapter 5: Bad Governance in a Small Country Governance and economic policies help to shape economic performance, but there is an asymmetry in the consequences of getting …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART V Chapter 5: Towards the First Billion (1500-1825) (Cont) 5.5 The Norfolk agricultural ‘revolution’ The Norfolk agricultural revolution exemplifies the complex inter-relations between population growth, industrialization and agricultural development. Its roots in England go back to the beginnings of enclosure …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART VI Chapter 11: The Making of China The sense of superiority displayed by the Greeks and Romans had its mirror image in China, where people looked out at the world and saw only barbarians. The Silk Road became a conduit, …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART VI Chapter 6: Plunder and Loot Adam Smith, the classic proponent of the arguments for free trade and an authority resorted to by many latter-day apologists for Empire, wrote in The Wealth of Nations of the …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART XV PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 27: Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries by Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine Introduction Over the past 40 years, per capita world food production has grown by …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART 1V PART 2: THE TRAPS Chapter 3: The Natural Resource Trap Conflict is not the only trap. A much more paradoxical trap has been the discovery of valuable natural resources in …
