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Population, agriculture, and biodiversity : problems and prospects /

"This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the biodiversity that collectively makes our...

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Group Author: Gustafson, J. P; Raven, Peter H; Ehrlich, Paul R
Published: University of Missouri Press,
Publisher Address: Columbia, Missouri :
Publication Dates: [2020]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Food security
Food supply
Agrobiodiversity conservation
Agriculture > Environmental aspects
Population > Environmental aspects
Summary: "This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the biodiversity that collectively makes our survival on earth possible. Those relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them are increasingly blocking our chances to achieve environmental stability on our fragile planet"--
Carrier Form: xix, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780826222022
0826222021
Index Number: HD9000
CLC: S181.3
Call Number: S181.3/P831

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