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A Small Farm Future

Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

By: Chris Smaje

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A Small Farm Future

Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

By: Chris Smaje

A modern classic of the new agrarianism "Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction."—Vandana Shiva "Every young person should read this book."—Richard Heinberg In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation—and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival. Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines, A Small Farm Future analyses the complex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how low-carbon, locally self-reliant agrarian communities can empower us to successfully confront these changes head on; and explores the pathways for delivering this vision politically. Challenging both conventional wisdom and utopian blueprints, A Small Farm Future offers rigorous original analysis of wicked problems and hidden opportunities in a way that illuminates the path toward functional local economies, effective self-provisioning, agricultural diversity and a shared earth. Perfect for readers of both Wendell Berry and Thomas Piketty, A Small Farm Future is a refreshing, new outlook on a way forward for society—and a vital resource for activists, students, policy makers, and anyone looking to enact change.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603589031

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Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods

By: Chris Smaje

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Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods

By: Chris Smaje

One of the few voices to challenge George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defence of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot’s vision for an urban and industrialised future. Responding to Monbiot’s portrayal of an urban, high-energy, industrially manufactured food future as the answer to our current crises, and its unchallenged acceptance within the environmental discourse, Smaje was compelled to challenge Monbiot’s evidence and conclusions. At the same time, Smaje presents his powerful counterargument – a low-carbon agrarian localism that puts power in the hands of local communities, not high-tech corporates. In the ongoing fight for our food future, this book will help you to understand the difference between a congenial, ecological living and a dystopian, factory-centred existence. A must-read!

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1915294169

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A Small Farm Future

Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

By: Chris Smaje

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Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

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Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods

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The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods

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Understanding the Sociology of Health

An Introduction

By: Anne-Marie Barry,Chris Yuill

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Understanding the Sociology of Health

An Introduction

By: Anne-Marie Barry,Chris Yuill

Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to sociological theories essential to understanding the current health climate. Up-to-date with key policy and research, and including case studies and exercises to critically engage the reader, this book shows how sociology can answer complex questions about health and illness, such as why health inequalities exist. To better help with your studies this book contains: · a global perspective with international examples; · a new chapter on health technologies; · online access to videos of the author discussing key topics as well as recommended further readings; · a glossary, chapter summaries and reflective questions to help you engage with the subject. Though aimed primarily at students on health and social care courses and professions allied to medicine, this textbook provides valuable insights for anyone interested in the social aspects of health.

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SAGE

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1473995108

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Contexts of Ageing

Class, Cohort and Community

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Contexts of Ageing

Class, Cohort and Community

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

Drawing on a wide range of sources, this text analyses the social nature of later life in the context of the history of welfare states, the emergence of consumer society and across the lifecourse.

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Polity

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0745629490

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Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

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Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

By: Chris Gilleard,Paul Higgs

‘Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment’ outlines and develops an argument about the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ during the second half of the twentieth century and its realisation through the processes of ‘embodiment’. The authors argue that ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have lost much of their purchase on the social imagination. Instead, this work asserts that later life has become as much a field for ‘not becoming old’ as of ‘old age’. The volume locates the origins of this transformation in the cultural ferment of the 1960s, when new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and the care of the self arose as mass phenomena. Over time, these new forms of embodiment have been extended, changing the traditional relationship between body, age and society by making struggles over the care of the self central to the cultures of later life.

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Anthem Press

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1783083379

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Environmental Management

Introduction, Challenges, Opportunities

By: Chris Barrow

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Environmental Management

Introduction, Challenges, Opportunities

By: Chris Barrow

This comprehensively updated third edition explores the nature and role of environmental management and offers an introduction to this rapidly expanding and changing field. It focuses on challenges and opportunities, and core concepts including sustainable development. The book is divided into five parts: Part I (Introduction to Environmental Management): four introductory chapters cover the justification for environmental management, its theory, scope, goals and scientific background Part II (Practice): explores environmental management in economics, law and business and environmental management’s relation with environmentalism, international agreements and monitoring Part III (Global Challenges and Opportunities): examines resources, challenges and opportunities, both natural and human-caused or human-aggravated Part IV (Responses to Global Challenges and Opportunities): explores mitigation, vulnerability, resilience, adaptation and how technology, social change and politics affect responses to challenges Part V (The Future): the final chapter considers the way ahead for environmental management in the future. With its well-structured coverage, effective illustrations and foundation for further, more-focused interest, this book is easily accessible to all. It is an essential reference for undergraduates and postgraduates studying environmental management and sustainability, and an important resource for many students on courses including environmental science, environmental studies and human geography.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040010938

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Natural Hierarchies

The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste

By: Chris Smaje

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Natural Hierarchies

The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste

By: Chris Smaje

This original and provocative text provides an approach to understanding the emergence and development of social rank through race and caste. The struggles we face in race and ethnic relations today are explored through anthropological, historical and sociological lenses to understand the roots of social hierarchy drawing on examples from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and mainland America.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631209492

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9780631209492

There Is Hope

And Other Lessons Learned by a Christian Cop

By: Chris Amos

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There Is Hope

And Other Lessons Learned by a Christian Cop

By: Chris Amos

Life is a series of lessons. For the Christian the goal of each is to guide and encourage the student to become a little more like Jesus. For some those lessons are taught in the office or classroom; for others, they arise in the home; for others still those lessons may be taught on the road while traveling from place to place. For me, many of those lessons have come on the hard and often unforgiving streets of Norfolk, Virginia. Some will bring a smile to your face, while others may bring tears. Some result in great victory, while others appear to end in tragedy and defeat. Some may provide answers, while others may raise questions, but all have a common purpose. Each one, when learned, will lead to a closer walk with Jesus Christ. This book is a collection of those lessons written in hopes that you too may be encouraged in your quest to become more like our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. God is still, as in times past, using the most unsuspecting people to teach some of His most profound lessons. Join with me now as together we let the lessons begin.

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WestBow Press

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144973488X

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9781449734886

Book's by Chris Smaje

A Small Farm Future

A Small Farm Future

Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

A Small Farm Future

A Small Farm Future

Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

Understanding the Sociology of Health

Understanding the Sociology of Health

Contexts of Ageing

Contexts of Ageing

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Environmental Management

Environmental Management

Natural Hierarchies

Natural Hierarchies

There Is Hope

There Is Hope

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