| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 340 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Knowing the land -- Part I: New uses of land: Technologies, policies, tools and capacities -- Strategic land use for ecosystem services -- Perennial energy crops: implications and potential -- Soaking up the carbon -- Anaerobic digestion and its implications for land use -- Watery land: the management of lowland floodplains in England -- Ecosystems services in dynamic and contested landscapes: the case of UK uplands -- Part II: Emerging issues and new perspectives -- Adaptation of biodiversity to climate change: an ecological perspective -- Public engagement in new productivism -- A story of becoming: landscape creation through an art/science dynamic -- Agricultural stewardship, climate change and public goods debate -- Regulating land use technologies: how does government juggle the risks? -- The land debate -- 'doing the right thing' ethical approaches to land-use decision making -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
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 en |
| Analysis |
Food |
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Fuel |
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Climate change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Land use.
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Climatic changes
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
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Climatic changes
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Land use
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Winter, Michael, 1955-
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Lobley, Matt.
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| ISBN |
9781849774673 |
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1849774676 |
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9781844077205 |
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1844077209 |
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9781136544354 |
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1136544356 |
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9781136544392 |
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1136544399 |
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9781136544408 |
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1136544402 |
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