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The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture Jules Pretty 9781844072361
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.94Our 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... -
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture by Jules Pretty 9781844072354
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.99Our 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... -
The Low-Carbon Good Life Jules Pretty 9781032388205
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44The 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... -
The East Country: Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore by Jules Pretty 9781501709333
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.84The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single... -
Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Greening the World's Food Economy Jules Pretty 9781138196025
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Sustainable intensification (SI) has emerged in recent years as a powerful new conceptualisation of agricultural sustainability and has been widely adopted in policy circles and debates. It is... -
The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in It Jules Pretty 9781844076130
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99For 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... -
Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature Jules Pretty OBE 9781853839252
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99'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... -
Sea Sagas of the North: Travels and Tales by Warming Waters Jules Pretty 9781912480746
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912480746Author Jules PrettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hawthorn PressPublisher Hawthorn... -
The Living Land: Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century Jules Pretty Obe 9781853835179
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The 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... -
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Sea Sagas of the North: Travels and Tales by Warming Waters by Jules Pretty 9781912480746 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912480746Author Jules PrettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hawthorn PressPublisher Hawthorn... -
Social Ecological Diversity and Traditional Food Systems (Co-Published With CRC Press-UK) by Ranjay Kumar Singh, Nancy J. Turner, Victoria Reyes-Garcia & Jules Pretty 9788119254231
Booksplease Price: £108.90The book provides a comprehensive overview of the production aspects of rabbit rearing. It is based on rearing practices that have been adopted in India, and it offers specific information on topics... -
Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities Steffen Boehm 9780415812856
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with... -
The Pesticide Detox: Towards a More Sustainable Agriculture by Jules N. Pretty
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34Since the 1960s, the world's population has more than doubled and agricultural production per person has increased by a third. Yet this growth in production has masked enormous hidden costs arising... -
The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands by Jules N. Pretty 9780801453304
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts,... -
Regenerating Agriculture: An Alternative Strategy for Growth Jules N. Pretty 9781853831980
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94For the past 50 years, the main goal of agriculture has been to increase production at any price, using high amounts of fertilizers and pesticides and intensive industrial methods. This has caused... -
Land Abandoned to the Sea: The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas by Dr Stuart Oliver 9780755641376
Booksplease Price: £33.84Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed... -
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil 9780393326642
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.26Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500... -
Reintegration of Ex-Combatants After Conflict: Participatory Approaches in Sierra Leone and Liberia by Walt Kilroy 9781137428981
Booksplease Price: £46.28Reintegration programmes for ex-combatants are supposed to support the wider peace process. This study, based on detailed fieldwork, looks at the way they were carried out in Sierra Leone and Liberia... -
Coming to Critical Engagement: An Autoethnographic Exploration by Frank A. Fear 9780761834717
Booksplease Price: £56.66Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been viewed previously as service to, extension of, and... -
Water and Cereals in Drylands by Parviz Koohafkan
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This topic is central to contemporary concerns for more sustainable agricultural development. This is a well-written and clear book, with excellent data, tables and illustrations, addressing issues... -
Water and Cereals in Drylands by Parviz Koohafkan 9781844077090
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This topic is central to contemporary concerns for more sustainable agricultural development. This is a well-written and clear book, with excellent data, tables and illustrations, addressing issues... -
Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability Geoffrey Lawrence 9781849713870
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues... -
A Research Agenda for Food Systems Colin Sage 9781800880252
Booksplease Price: £114.14Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of... -
Green Exercise: Linking Nature, Health and Well-being Jo Barton 9781138807655
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature. This book provides a balanced overview and synthesis text... -
The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology by Douglas E. Christie
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £33.30'There are no unsacred places,' the poet Wendell Berry has written. 'There are only sacred places and desecrated places.' What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it... -
Environment and Food by Colin Sage 9780415363129
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54This timely book provides a thorough introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. Its primary purpose is to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and... -
A Research Agenda for Food Systems by Colin Sage 9781035320356
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of... -
Sustainability in Agriculture Prof. R M Harrison (University of Birmingham, UK) 9780854042012
Booksplease Price: £61.30World trade in agriculture, with its massive subsidies, restrictive barriers, international collaboration and competition, and the livelihoods of millions of farmers worldwide at stake, is an emotive... -
Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology Stephen R. Gliessman 9781439895719
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems. Hence, learning can best be achieved through an experiential... -
Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art by Harry W. Greene
Booksplease Price: £25.40Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W... -
Food for All: The Need for a New Agriculture by John Madeley 9781842770191
Booksplease Price: £37.81What kind of agriculture do we need to feed the world? World leaders have committed themselves to halving hunger by the year 2015 as a first step towards food for all. But is this an achievable... -
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba by Julia Wright
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the... -
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba by Julia Wright 9781844075720
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.70When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the... -
Food Utopias: Reimagining citizenship, ethics and community by Paul V. Stock
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food... -
Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation Fikret Berkes 9781839102240
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.88Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art by Harry W. Greene 9780520292659
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.80Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W... -
Animal Husbandry Regained: The Place of Farm Animals in Sustainable Agriculture John Webster (University of Bristol, UK) 9781849714211
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma. While world demand from a growing and more affluent human population is increasing rapidly, there are strong counter-arguments that... -
Nature and Culture: Rebuilding Lost Connections Sarah Pilgrim (Marine Management Organisation, London, UK) 9780415813549
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common... -
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction by Chris D. Thomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE TIMES, ECONOMIST AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful... -
Governing Agricultural Sustainability: Global lessons from GM crops by Phil Macnaghten
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Although GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world agriculture and as part of the solution for world poverty and hunger, their uptake has not been smooth nor...