How to Feed the World

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Eise, Jessica (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Foster, Kenneth Alan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Agricultural economics.; Food-Biotechnology.; Environmental policy.; Climate change.; Agriculture.; Agricultural Economics.; Food Science.; Environmental Politics.; Climate Change.

By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering population,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Inhabitants of Earth.-Chapter 2. The Green, Blue, and Gray Water Rainbow
• Chapter 3. The Land that Shapes and Sustains Us
• Chapter 4. Our Changing Climate
• Chapter 5. The Technology Ticket
• Chapter 6. Systems
• Chapter 7. Tangled Trade
• Chapter 8. Spoiled, Rotten, and Left Behind
• Chapter 9. Tipping the Scales on Health
• Chapter 10. Social License to Operate
• Chapter 11. The Information Hinge
• Chapter 12. Achieving Equal Access
• Conclusion
• Afterword.-Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index.