Bimalendu bhattacharya (20 risultati)

Condizione: New. pp. xv + 213 13 Figures (Partly Col.) Maps.

Condizione: New. pp. xv + 213, Maps, Index 1st Published.

Condizione: New. pp. xv + 213.

Condizione: New. pp. 176.

Condizione: New. pp. 198.

Condizione: New. pp. 176.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. 198.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. One of the most threatening issues facing the world today is 'food scarcity', keeping a little less than one-fourth (2015) of the global population hungry and malnourished, ostensibly shameful for the affluent world. The book looks at the reasons for this blaring disparity between the two sections of the global population, along with growing demand for animal-protein-rich food by the affluent world causing it to be afflicted with grave health problems. This study delves into causes involved in creating this disparate as well as contrasting situation and looks for preventive and restorative measures to strengthen 'food security' for entire mankind, assuring not only availability of adequate food 'at all times and at all places', but also indicating how to make it healthy for the affluent class to evade a catastrophic future. At the same time, climate change resulting from mindless wrong-doings of man over time, with debilitating effects on the food production system, impacting heavily on food supply, combined with environmental degradation and ever-shrinking biodiversity posing as the greatest challenge to human survival, demands greater emphasis on mitigating measures to halt the process culminating as never before in making both food and water scarce commodities, imperilling human existence by the end of this century.…

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. The major concern of this book is to focus on the contrasting situation represented by the agricultural practices of the smallholder farming population on the one hand and industrial agriculture practised by giant corporate houses on the other, considering the former's ability to meet the growing requirement of food by the global population. The contest between these two widely different sectors favours smallholder farmers as they derive impetus from a greater reliance on the role of research and development in support of a process of greater intensification. They overcome the hurdles of competition from industrial farming by concentrating on mitigating the effects of climate change, through a sustainable process. Their methods confirm that they will be able to meet the growing demand for food in the future without impairing the environment. This is in sharp contrast to the dangerous implications of industrial agriculture which impacts negatively on our environment and jeopardises the future of humanity.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. As the very title of the book indicates, it deals with causes and consequences of climate change. The first part goes into the details of wide-ranging factors leading to climate change, discussing the implications of upsetting the natural balance and the related consequences in their apocalyptic dimension. The second part concentrates on adopting mitigating processes which can arrest the situation as far as practicable in order to sustain life on earth and save the planet.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. This book considers the history of the emergence of Homo sapiens who vanquished earlier groups and can be identified as our ancestors. Going back to the rift valleys of Africa, this study of migration covers historic swathes of human movement to more recent settlements in North and South America, the patterns of European settlement and colonisation across the globe. It takes into account slavery and indentured labour as responsible for the enforced movement of vast groups across continents and the continuing reality of mixed racial communities which have emerged from these shipped cargoes of people. It looks at the cataclysmic effect of the displacement of millions as a result of the Indian Partition and considers the movement and influx of refugees today escaping violence, exploitation or effects of the climate crisis, as they face hostility and/or indifference on shores they arrive at, are rendered stateless and face the reality of homelessness as the world's flotsam who exist on the margins of society.…

Condizione: New. pp. 470.

Condizione: New. pp. 470.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. 470.