Environmental Change and Food Security in China

• Main Authors: Huang McBeath, Jenifer (Author), McBeath, Jerry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 35
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Political science.; Agriculture.; Plant pathology.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Development economics.; Agricultural economics.; Life Sciences.; Agricultural Economics.; Development Economics.; Political Science.; Plant Pathology.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

With 22 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its arable land, China’s food situation is a matter of global concern. Environmental Change and Food Security in China, is the first to introduce comprehensively the threats to China’s system of food production, distribution, and consum...