Overview
- Considers the emerging challenges facing farmers, consumers, policy-makers and the international community related to water and environmental impacts, social inclusion and regional development
- Critically assesses the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory approaches and impacts of global agri-food chains
- Expands the discussion on the interface between the expansion of the agri-food sector and socio-environmental demands
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This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes and the impacts of global agri-food chains. The various chapters include conceptual and empirical material from research carried out in Brazil, India and Europe. The assessment takes into account the dilemmas faced by farmers, companies, policy-makers and the international community related to growing food demand, water scarcity and environmental degradation. The book also questions most government reactions to those problems that tend to reproduce old, productivist approaches and are normally under the powerful influence of global corporations, mega-supermarkets and investment funds. Its overall message is that the trajectory of agriculture, rural development and environmental management are integralelements of the broader search for justice and novel socio-ecological thinking.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Antonio A. R. Ioris is Lecturer in Environment and Society and Director of the MSc in Environment and Development at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a political geographer and agricultural engineer and is an international scholar with an extensive research portfolio and numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Recent books include Water, State and the City (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agriculture, Environment and Development
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives on Water, Land and Politics
Editors: Antonio A.R Ioris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32255-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81235-9Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32255-1Published: 24 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 264
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Environmental Politics, Climate Change, Human Geography