Agriculture & Environment

Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic world

Stuart McCook reviews a book describing the incorporation of traditional medicines from the Caribbean into European medicines in the 18th century.

Author: Londa Schiebinger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Publication date: 2004

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond's latest book looks at the factors that lead to the collapse of societies, underlining the central role of environmental decay.

Author: Jared Diamond

Publisher: Viking/Allen Land

Publication date: 2005

EN

The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

Author: Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin

Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

Publication date: 2002

EN

Air Pollution & Health in Rapidly Developing Countries

Author: Gordon McGranahan and Frank Murray

Publisher: Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd

Publication date: June 2003

EN

Eating Apes

Author: Dale Petersen

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication date: 2003

EN

Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise

Author: Michael L Rosenzweig

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication date: 2003

EN

Genes for Africa: Genetically Modified Crops in the Developing World

Gordon Conway praises Jennifer A. Thomson's summary of the use of GM crops in Africa.

Author: Jennifer A. Thomson

Publisher: University of Cape Town Press

Publication date: 2002

EN

Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

Author: Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite

Publisher: Earthscan

Publication date: 6 February 2002

EN

Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analyzing and Using Agricultural Diversity

Author: Harold Brookfield et al

Publisher: Intermediate Technology Development Group

Publication date: April 2003

EN

Population and Climate Change

Author: Brian C. O'Neill, F. Landis MacKellar and Wolfgang Lutz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication date: December 2001

EN

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change

Author: John A. Matthews et al

Publisher: Arnold

Publication date: February 2002

EN

Securing the Harvest: Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops

Author: J. DeVries and G. Toenniessen

Publisher: CABI Publishing

Publication date: February 2002

EN

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