Crisis & Opportunity

John E Ikerd

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agricul... Lees meer

Imagining Seattle

Serin D Houston

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston ... Lees meer

Agricultural Research Alternatives

William Lockeretz, Molly D Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 3
• Clearly, the debate is no longer over agricultural sustainability as a legitimate goal, but about how to fulfill that goal. Research is a vital factor... Lees meer

Imagining Seattle

Serin D Houston

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston ... Lees meer

Ecology and Economics of the Great Plains

Daniel S Licht

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 10
• The Great Plains were once characterized by vast expanses of grass, complex interdependence among species, and dynamic annual changes due to weather, ... Lees meer

A Conspiracy of Optimism

Paul W Hirt

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• A Conspiracy of Optimism explains the controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest Service's management of America's national forests. Confronted with ... Lees meer

Making Nature, Shaping Culture

Lawrence Busch, William B Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt, Douglas Hemken, Jubel Moraga-Rojel, Timothy Koponen, José de Souza Silva

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 8
• For ages, farmers have domesticated plant varieties, while scientists have "made" nature through hybridization and other processes. This give and take... Lees meer

Raising a Stink

Carolyn Johnsen

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 15
• In Nebraska, as in many states across the nation, factory farms housing tens of thousands of hogs have altered the physical, cultural, and economic la... Lees meer

In Defense of Farmers

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally i... Lees meer

Ogallala, Third Edition

John Opie, Char Miller, Kenna Lang Archer

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the produc... Lees meer

Ecology and Economics of the Great Plains

Daniel S Licht

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• The Great Plains were once characterized by vast expanses of grass, complex interdependence among species, and dynamic annual changes due to weather, ... Lees meer

Changing the Way America Farms

Neva Hassanein

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 12
• Changing the Way America Farms traces the manner in which alternative farmers have developed and exchanged their own personal, local knowledge as a ba... Lees meer

In Defense of Farmers

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmenta... Lees meer

Remaking American Communities

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concer... Lees meer

James River Chiefdoms

Martin D Gallivan

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 16
• James River Chiefdoms explores puzzling discrepancies between the ethnohistoric and archaeological records of the Powhatan and Monacan societies James... Lees meer

Green Illusions

Ozzie Zehner

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refresh... Lees meer

Green Plans

Huey D Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• "Green plans" are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability.... Lees meer

Crop Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 4
• Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water. These practices beco... Lees meer

Sustainable Compromises

Alan Boye

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• Living simply isn't always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise... Lees meer

The Five-Ton Life

Susan Subak

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• Winner of the 2018 Nautilus Book Award, Silver, for Green Living/Sustainability At nearly twenty tons per person, American carbon dioxide emissions ar... Lees meer

Roots of Change

Mary Ridder

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future | nr. 18
• Among the vast corporate and smaller family-sized farms and agribusinesses of Nebraska, the old pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship is rising again,... Lees meer

Down and Out on the Family Farm

Michael Johnston Grant

• Paperback | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• Focusing on the Great Plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota between 1929 and 1945, Down and Out on the Family Farm examine... Lees meer

The Visible Hands That Feed

Ruzana Liburkina

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• The Visible Hands That Feed provides crucial insights into the rifts and regularities that are characteristic of today's food systems. These insights ... Lees meer

Growing Local

• Hardcover | Engels | Our Sustainable Future
• In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.... Lees meer