The Next Green Revolution - Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture

List of contents

Foreword , Preface , Chapter 1. On Trial: Industrial Agriculture , Indictment I , Indictment II , Indictment III , The Solution , Chapter 2. The Remedy: Sustainable Agriculture , Nature versus Industry , The Sustainable Era , What Is Sustainable? , Down to Earth: Eight Steps to the Next Green Revolution , Chapter 3. Down to Earth: Step 1Create and Conserve Healthy Soil , Not Just Dirt , The Good Earth , Healing the Soil , Chapter 4. Clear, Clean Water: Step 2Conserve Water and Protect Its Quality and Step 3Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution , Washing the Water , Don't Drink Up the Pond , Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution , Don't Waste the Waste , Chapter 5. Think Local: Step 4Select Plants and Animals Adapted to the Environment , Agroecology , Battling the Hill , The Right Cow for the Right Grass , Think Local , Chapter 6. All Creatures Great and Small: Step 5Encourage Biodiversity , Stewards of Life , Endangered at Home , Terminator Tech , Chapter 7. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Step 6Manage Pests with Minimal Environmental Impact , From Conception Until Death , The Killing Fields , The Chemical Treadmill , It's Nature's Way , The Team Approach , Interactions , Chapter 8. Power: Step 7Conserve Nonrenewable Energy Resources , Agriculture's Achilles' Heel , Low-Input Farming , Chapter 9. Money: Step 8Increase Profitability and Reduce Risk , A Penny Saved , A Penny Earned , Ecological Economics , Chapter 10. Two Roads , Attachment to the Local Community and Care for the Surrounding Land , Notes , Bibliography , I

Product details

• Authors: Jim Horne, Horne Jim, Maura Mcdermott, Mcdermott Maura, Raymond P Poincelot
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2001
• EAN: 9781560228851
• ISBN: 978-1-56022-885-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 589 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; NATURE / Natural Resources, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, Environmental Management, Botany & plant sciences, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Agricultural science, Commercial horticulture, Horticulture, Botany and plant sciences