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  • The Low-Carbon Good Life
    Jules Pretty
    The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss, and food related ill-health. ...
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    70,32 €

  • Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture
    Jules Pretty / Zareen Pervez Bharucha
    Co-written by Jules Pretty, one of the pioneers of the concept and internatonally known and respected authority on sustainable agriculture, this book sets out current thinking and debates around sustainable agriculture and intensification. ...
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    77,56 €

  • Unwelcome Harvest
    Gordon R. Conway / Jules N. Pretty
    Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add ...
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    59,05 €

  • The Earth Only Endures
    Jules Pretty
    For most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more people are living in urban rather than rural areas, bringing about an estrangement. This book, by acclaimed author Jules Pretty, is fundamentally about our relationship with nature, animals and places.A series of interlinked essays leads readers on a...
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    77,12 €

  • The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture
    Jules Pretty
    Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone’s needs, and despite great progress in increasing productivity over the past century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. This book describes a different form of agriculture: one founded more on ecological principles and which is also more harmonious with people, their societies and cultures. ...
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    53,48 €

  • Agri-Culture
    Jules Pretty Obe
    ’Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors’Tim O’Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK ’A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources’ Jacqueline Ashby, CIAT, Colombia’Full of supporting evidence and clear arguments’ Norman Uphoff, Cornell University, US’A wonderful book, put t...
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    77,15 €

  • The Living Land
    Jules Pretty Obe
    The Living Land sets out a new ’stakeholder’ vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture, localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital, and a large ’sustainability dividend’ is waiting to be released from current practices - creating more jobs, more wealth a...
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    87,71 €