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  • THE LOW-CARBON GOOD LIFE
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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. Across the world today and throughout history, good lives are characterised by healthy food, connections to nature, being active, togetherness, personal growth, a spi...

    $1,060.00

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  • SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND TRADITIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS
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    SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND TRADITIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS
    RANJAY KUMAR SINGH, NANCY J. TURNER, VICTORIA REYES-GARCIA AND JULES PRETTY
    This book draws on world-wide experiences and valuable lessons to highlight community-ecosystem interactions and the role of traditional knowledge in sustaining biocultural resources through community-based adaptations. The book targets different audiences including researchers working on human-environment interactions and climate adaptation practices, biodiversity conservators...

    $1,480.00

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  • SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE
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    SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE
    JULES PRETTY / ZAREEN PERVEZ BHARUCHA
    Sustainable 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 defined as a process or system where yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land. Co-written by Jules Pretty, one of the pioneers of...

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  • THE LIVING LAND
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    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...

    $1,320.00

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  • UNWELCOME HARVEST
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    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 ...

    $920.00

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  • REGENERATING AGRICULTURE
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    REGENERATING AGRICULTURE
    JULES N. PRETTY
    For 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 damage to the environment and widespread rural depopulation. This study shows that there is a viable alternative - a form of agriculture which conserves resources, maintains rural emp...

    $1,320.00

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  • AGRI-CULTURE
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    AGRI-CULTURE
    JULES PRETTY
    '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, pu...

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  • THE PESTICIDE DETOX
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    THE PESTICIDE DETOX
    JULES N. PRETTY
    Since 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 from widespread pesticide use - massive ecological damage and high incidences of farmer poisoning and chronic health effects. Whereas once the risks involved with pesticide use were ...

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  • SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
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    SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
    JULES N. PRETTY
    Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock produ...

    $4,000.00

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  • THE EARTH ONLY ENDURES
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    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 ...

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