Isbn: 9780393327250 - outgrowing the earth: the food security challenge in an age of falling water tables and rising temperatures (18 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. : En 'Outgrowing the Earth', Lester R. Brown examina cómo las demandas humanas están superando la capacidad de la Tierra y qué se puede hacer al respecto. El autor argumenta que la escasez de agua y las olas de calor están reduciendo las cosechas de cereales, lo que dificulta la alimentación de la creciente población mundial. Brown propone aumentar la productividad del agua, estabilizar el clima y controlar el crecimiento demográfico para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria global. Este libro ofrece una perspectiva crucial sobre los desafíos ambientales y económicos que enfrenta nuestro planeta. EAN: 9780393327250 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencia Ficción Título: Outgrowing the Earth Autor: Lester R. Brown Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company Idioma: en Páginas: 258 Formato: tapa blanda.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 258 pages. How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities?and what we need to do about it. Ever since 9/11, many have considered al Queda to be the leading threat to global security, but falling water tables in countries that contain mo re than half the world's people and rising temperatures worldwide pose a far mor e serious threat. Spreading water shortages and crop-withering heat waves are sh rinking grain harvests in more and more countries, making it difficult for the w orld's farmers to feed 70 million more people each year. The risk is that tighte ning food supplies could drive up food prices, destabilizing governments in low- income grain-importing countries and disrupting global economic progress. Future security, Brown says, now depends on raising water productivity, stabilizing cl imate by moving beyond fossil fuels, and stabilizing population by filling the f amily planning gap and educating young people everywhere. If Osama bin Laden an d his colleagues succeed in diverting our attention from the real threats to our future security, they may reach their goals for reasons that even they have not imagined. Editorial Reviews Review The book proposes that the challenge of fe eding the world is at least as much about energy, water, climate and population. This view is no more than we should expect from Lester Brown, whose forte, eloq uently expressed in the course of writing dozens of books over the past four dec ades, is to emphasize the links that connect all our development sectors, someti mes obviously, sometimes covertly, often crucially. ? Times Higher Education Sup plement Lester Brown advances our thinking on the food-security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come. ? Sustain The book should be b.…