Author: Walter Clay LowdermilkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Tracing Land Use Across Ancient Boundaries
Author: Walter Clay LowdermilkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Wizard and the Prophet
Author: Charles MannPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345802845
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Soil Conservation Literature
Author: United States. Soil Conservation Service. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Register of Rhodes Scholars, 1903-1945
Author: University of Oxford. Rhodes ScholarshipsPublisher: London ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Rhodes scholarships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Klau Library, Cincinnati
Author: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Hebrew literature
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
History of Sustained-yield Forestry
Author: Harold K. SteenPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Restoration & Management Notes
Author: Environmental Geomorphology and Landscape Conservation: Prior to 1900
Author: Donald Robert CoatesPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Farm Inheritance Laws in Other Countries
Author: Charles Leslie StewartPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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