What is land for? : the food, fuel and climate change debate
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What is land for? : the food, fuel and climate change debate
Earthscan from Routledge, 2015
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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  United States of America
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"First issued in paperback 2015"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent decades agricultural commodity surpluses in the developed world have contributed to a mantra of 'land surplus' in which set-aside, extensification, alternative land uses and 'wilding' have been key terms in debates over land. Quite suddenly all this has changed as a consequence of rapidly shifting commodity markets. Prices for cereals, oil seeds and other globally traded commodities have risen sharply. A contributor to this has been the shift to bioenergy cropping, fuelled by concerns over post-peak oil and climate change. Agricultural supply chain interests have embraced the 'new environmentalism' of climate change with enthusiasm, proudly proclaiming the readiness of the industry to produce both food and energy crops, and to do so with a neo-liberal confidence in markets to determine the balance between food and non-food crops in land use.
But policy and politics have not necessarily caught up with these market and industry-led changes and some environmentalists are beginning to challenge the assumptions of the new 'productivism'. Is it necessarily the case, they ask, that agriculture's best contribution to tackling climate change is to grow bioenergy crops or invest in anaerobic-digesters or make land over for windfarms? Might not there be an equally important role in maximising the carbon sequestration or water-holding properties of biodiverse land? What is Land For? tackles these key cutting-edge issues of this new debate by setting out a baseline of evidence and ideas.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1. Introduction: Knowing the Land
Part I: New Uses of Land: Technologies, Policies, Tools and Capacities
2. Strategic Land Use for Ecosystem Services
3. Perennial Energy Crops: Implications and Potential
4. Soaking up the Carbon
5. Anaerobic Digestion and its Implications for Land Use
6. Watery Land: The Management of Lowland Floodplains in England
7. Ecosystems Services in Dynamic and Contested Landscapes: The Case of UK Uplands
Part II: Emerging Issues and New Perspectives
8. Adaptation of Biodiversity to Climate Change: An Ecological Perspective
9. Public Engagement in New Productivism
10. A Story of Becoming: Landscape Creation through an Art/Science Dynamic
11. Agricultural Stewardship, Climate Change and Public Goods Debate
12. Regulating Land Use Technologies: How Does Government Juggle the Risks?
13. The Land Debate - 'Doing the Right Thing' Ethical Approaches to Land -use Decision Making
14. Conclusions
Index
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