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This book explores the role of health in sustainable agricultural
development into the early decades of the twenty-first century. It
focuses on emerging agricultural research priorities in developed
and developing economies in response to the demands placed on their
agricultural systems.
The contributors to this volume, based on the Agriculture Research
Seminars held annually at the University of Minnesota, examine the
role of government, multinationals, and the emerging private sector
(in both domestic and international contexts) in determining
agricultural research policy.
This book explores the resource and environmental constraints on
sustainable growth in agricultural production into the middle of
the twenty-first century. It presents contemporary concerns with
the implications of natural resource availability and environmental
change.
This book explores the role of health in sustainable agricultural
development into the early decades of the twenty-first century. It
focuses on emerging agricultural research priorities in developed
and developing economies in response to the demands placed on their
agricultural systems.
The contributors to this volume, based on the Agriculture Research
Seminars held annually at the University of Minnesota, examine the
role of government, multinationals, and the emerging private sector
(in both domestic and international contexts) in determining
agricultural research policy.
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Consumption and the Environment - The Human Causes (Paperback)
Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, National Research Council; Edited by James L Sweeney, …
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There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the
global environment. For some observers, "consumption" is at the
root of global environmental threats: wealthy individuals and
societies use far too much of the earth's resource base and should
scale back their appetites to preserve the environment for future
generations and allow a decent life for the rest of the world.
Other observers see affluence as the way to escape environmental
threats: economic development increases public pressure for
environmental protection and makes capital available for
environmentally benign technologies. The arguments are fed by
conflicting beliefs, values, hopes, and fears--but surprisingly
little scientific analysis. This book demonstrates that the
relationship of consumption to the environment needs careful
analysis by environmental and social scientists and conveys some of
the excitement of treating the issue scientifically. It poses the
key empirical questions: Which kinds of consumption are
environmentally significant? Which actors are responsible for that
consumption? What forces cause or explain environmentally
significant consumption? How can it be changed? The book presents
studies that open up important issues for empirical study: Are
there any signs of saturation in the demand for travel in wealthy
countries? What is the relationship between environmental
consumption and human well-being? To what extent do people in
developing countries emulate American consumption styles? The book
also suggests broad strategies that scientists and research
sponsors can use to better inform future debates about the
environment, development, and consumption.
Foreword By Herbert Stein. Committee For Economic Development,
Supplementary Paper, No. 15.
Military and defense-related procurement has been an important
source of technology development across a broad spectrum of
industries that account for an important share of United States
industrial production. In this book, the author focuses on six
general-purpose technologies: interchangeable parts and mass
production; military and commercial aircraft; nuclear energy and
electric power; computers and semiconductors; the INTERNET; and the
space industries. In each of these industries, technology
development would have occurred more slowly, and in some case much
more slowly or not at all, in the absence of military and
defense-related procurement.
The book addresses three questions that have significant
implications for the future growth of the United States economy.
One is whether changes in the structure of the United States
economy and of the defense-industrial base preclude military and
defense-related procurement from playing the role in the
development of advanced technology in the future, comparable to the
role it has played in the past. A second question is whether public
support for commercially oriented research and development will
become an important source of new general-purpose technologies. A
third and more disturbing question is whether a major war, or the
threat of major war, will be necessary to mobilize the scientific,
technical, and financial resources necessary to induce the
development of new general-purpose technologies.
When the history of United States technology development in the
next half century is written, it will focus on incremental rather
than revolutionary changes in both military and commercial
technology. It will also be written within thecontext of slower
productivity growth than of the relatively high rates that
prevailed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s or during the
information technology bubble that began in the early 1990s. These
will impose severe constraints on the capacity of the United States
to sustain a global-class military posture and a position of
leadership in the global economy.
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