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The Global History of Organic Farming

By: Gregory A. Barton

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The Global History of Organic Farming

By: Gregory A. Barton

Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after an initial flurry of scientific interest and popular support. Drawing on newly-unearthed archives, Barton argues that organic farming first gained popularity in an imperial milieu before shifting to the left of the political spectrum after decolonization and served as a crucial middle stage of environmentalism. Modern organic protocols developed in British India under the guidance of Sir Albert Howard before spreading throughout parts of the British Empire, Europe, and the USA through the advocacy of his many followers and his second wife Louise. Organic farming advocates before and during World War II challenged the industrialization of agriculture and its reliance on chemical fertilizers. They came tantalizingly close to influencing government policy. The decolonization of the British Empire, the success of industrial agriculture, and the purging of holistic ideas from medicine side-lined organic farming advocates who were viewed increasingly as cranks and kooks. Organic farming advocates continued to spread their anti-chemical farming message through a small community that deeply influenced Rachel Carson's ideas in Silent Spring, a book that helped to legitimize anti-chemical concerns. The organic farming movement re-entered the scientific mainstream in the 1980s only with the reluctant backing of government policy. It has continued to grow in popularity ever since and explains why organic farming continues to inspire those who seek to align agriculture and health.

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Oxford University Press

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0192542591

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9780192542595

Saving the World

How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change

By: Brett M. Bennett,Gregory A. Barton

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Saving the World

How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change

By: Brett M. Bennett,Gregory A. Barton

An illuminating history of the forgotten concept of climatic botany that underscores how vital forests are to our future. Saving the World tells the forgotten history of climatic botany, the idea that forests are essential for creating and recycling rain. Long before the specter of global warming, societies recognized that deforestation caused drastic climate shifts—as early as 1770, concerns over deforestation spurred legislation to combat human-induced climate change. Across the twentieth century, climatic botany experienced fluctuating fortunes, influenced by technological advancements and evolving meteorological theories. Remarkably, contemporary scientists are rediscovering the crucial role of forests in rainfall recycling, unaware of the long history of climatic botany. This enlightening book is essential reading for anyone passionate about conserving the world’s forests and preserving our climate for future generations.

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Reaktion Books

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1789148995

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9781789148992

Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

By: Allan B. Wolfson,Gregory W. Hendey,Louis J. Ling,Carlo L. Rosen,Jeffrey J. Schaider,Ghazala Q. Sharieff

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Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

By: Allan B. Wolfson,Gregory W. Hendey,Louis J. Ling,Carlo L. Rosen,Jeffrey J. Schaider,Ghazala Q. Sharieff

Organized for easy reference, this comprehensive, concise, and clinically focused text covers all aspects of emergency medicine. Chapters follow a consistent, structured format—clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, evaluation, management, and disposition with highlighted critical interventions and common pitfalls. In this edition, the Pain and Pain Management section is now at the front of the book, since a large percentage of emergency department patients present with pain-related complaints. The Trauma section now follows the High-Risk Chief Complaint section. A new two-color design will help readers find critical elements of each chapter easily. A companion Website will include the fully searchable text, more than 400 self-assessment questions with answers, and additional images and tables.

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1809

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451153457

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9781451153453

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism

By: Gregory Allen Barton

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Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism

By: Gregory Allen Barton

What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139434608

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9781139434607

The Global History of Organic Farming

By: Gregory A. Barton

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Oxford University Press

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0192542605

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The Global History of Organic Farming

The Global History of Organic Farming

Saving the World

Saving the World

Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism

The Global History of Organic Farming

The Global History of Organic Farming

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