Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability
A Farming Systems Analysis
An analysis of intensive agriculture and sustainable farming examining food quality, manure runoff, greenhouse gases, extra-label use of antibiotics, pesticide use, and rural conflict.
Taking Stands
Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities
Goes beyond the dichotomies of “pro” and “anti” environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places.
Misplaced Distrust
Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada
A timely comparative study of state-network interactions in agro-environmental policy-making in the US, Canada, and France.
Future Nature, revised edition
A Vision for Conservation
This revised edition of Bill Adams's classic work tackles the new challenges in the countryside and wildlife conservation, exploring the scientific, cultural and economic significance of conservation.
Restoration of the Great Lakes
Promises, Practices, and Performances
Using original findings from surveys, interviews, and other documents, this volume looks at how various levels of government are attempting to restore the environment in the Great Lakes.
Forestry and the Forest Industry in Japan
Representing the work of distinguished Japanese scholars, this is the first comprehensive English-language overview of forestry, forest management, and the forest products industry in Japan.
At the Edge
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
This timely book argues for governance based on human responsibility and recognition of the interconnectedness of human and natural systems.
Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast
Forging Truces in the War in the Woods
This thoughtful collection of essays examines forest policy in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.
Fatal Consumption
Rethinking Sustainable Development
Taking the slogan "think globally, act locally" to heart, the contributors to this book offer both an understanding of the present and hope for a sustainable future.