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Author:   Iain J. Gordon ,  Herbert H.T. Prins ,  Geoff R. Squire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138859395

ISBN 10:   1138859397
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   29 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Food is Disconnected from Nature 1. Introduction – Food Production and Nature Conservation: Conflicts and Solutions Iain J. Gordon, Geoff R. Squire and Herbert H.T. Prins Part 2: The Future Challenge for Food Security and Nature Conservation 2. Feeding the Eleven Billion within the Sustainable Development Goals Framework Munir A. Hanjra, Andrew Noble, Simon Langan and Jonathan Lautze 3: Limits to Crop Production Geoff R. Squire Part 3: Approaches to Protecting Nature and Producing More Food 4. Can a Nature Reserve Help Feed a Family? Protected Areas and Food Security Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton 5. Protected Areas, Ecosystem Services, and Food Production Jeffrey A. McNeely 6. Agricultural Intensification and Diversity for Reconciling Production and Environment: The Role of Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems Gilles Lemaire, Julie Ryschawy, Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho and François Gastal 7: A Landscape Approach to Integrating Food Production and Conservation Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer Part 4: A New Agenda for Food Production and Conservation 8: New Technologies: Costs and Benefits for Food Production in Contrasting Agro-ecological Production Systems Michael J. Robertson, Nigel P. Preston and Graham D. Bonnett 9: Utilising Genetic Diversity to Feed the World Nigel Maxted and Anne Lauvie 10. How Should Land Be Used? Bioenergy and Responsible Innovation in Agricultural Systems Alison Mohr, Orla Shortall, Richard Helliwell and Sujatha Raman 11. Innovative Pasture Cropping: An Ecological Approach to Farming Ndungi wa Mungai and Colin Seis 12. Nature’s Role in Feeding the Ten Billion: How Biodiversity can Benefit Agriculture Rob Brooker Part 5: A Future Framework for Linking Food Production and Conservation 13 Rebalancing Food Production and Nature Conservation: The Need for Design-oriented Research Walter A.H. Rossing, Rodolphe Sabatier, Félix Teillard, Jeroen C.J. Groot and Pablo Tittonell 14. Markets to Support Sustainable Food Production: Potentials and Challenges of Alternative Provisioning Cristina Grasseni 15. Global-Local Governance for Generating Transformative Pathways towards Sustainable Food Provisioning and Nature Conservation Rosemary Hill and Jessica Duncan Part 6: Food Production and Nature Conservation 16: Conclusion: Re-engaging Agriculture with Nature Iain J. Gordon, Geoff R. Squire and Herbert H.T. Prins

Reviews

This multi-author work aims to look across disciplines at the way food production, which for the most part in this book means farming, can be reconnected to nature ... Many of the indidual chapters of this book are interestinig, informative and at times thought-provoking. - John Hopkins in The Bulletin of the British Ecological Society (March 2018).

""This multi-author work aims to look across disciplines at the way food production, which for the most part in this book means farming, can be ""reconnected to nature""... Many of the indidual chapters of this book are interestinig, informative and at times thought-provoking."" - John Hopkins in The Bulletin of the British Ecological Society (March 2018).

"""This multi-author work aims to look across disciplines at the way food production, which for the most part in this book means farming, can be ""reconnected to nature""... Many of the indidual chapters of this book are interestinig, informative and at times thought-provoking."" - John Hopkins in The Bulletin of the British Ecological Society (March 2018)."

Author Information

Iain J. Gordon is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Division of Tropical Environments and Societies at James Cook University, Australia, and Emeritus Fellow of the James Hutton Institute, UK. Herbert H. T. Prins is Professor in Resource Ecology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Geoff R. Squire is Principal Research Scientist at the James Hutton Institute, UK.

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