What is Land For?
The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate
In recent decades agricultural commodity surpluses in the developed world have contributed to a mantra of 'land surplus' in which set-aside, extensification, alternative land uses and 'wilding' have been key terms in debates over land. Quite suddenly all this has changed as a consequence of rapidly shifting commodity markets. Prices for cereals, oil seeds and other globally traded commodities have risen sharply. A contributor to this has been the shift to bioenergy cropping, fuelled by concerns over post-peak oil and climate change. Agricultural supply chain interests have embraced the 'new environmentalism' of climate change with enthusiasm,…
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Weitere Autoren: Winter, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-136-54439-2
- EAN: 9781136544392
- Produktnummer: 13855205
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 362 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'599 KB
Über den Autor
Michael Winter OBE is Professor of Rural Policy and Director of the Centre for Rural Policy Research, Department of Politics, at the University of Exeter. Matt Lobley is Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the Centre for Rural Policy Research.
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