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Agriculture, Environment, and Health: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

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Description for Agriculture, Environment, and Health: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; RNF; RNU; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.

Agriculture, Environment, and Health offers a broad and challenging analysis of changes now under way at the global level in institutional design and policy reform that ultimately will promote sustainable growth in agricultural production. Internationally known contributors from the agricultural, health, environmental, and social sciences argue that an interdisciplinary approach is essential to dealing with this global problem. Particular attention is given to the institutions that conduct research and implement changes in technology and practice in the fields of agriculture and health as well as institutions that monitor the changes in resource endowments, the quality of the environment, and the ... Read more

Sustainable development, say the contributors - including Douglass C. North, Carl K. Eicher, and Godfrey Gunatilleke - will be achieved only if knowledge from separate areas is effectively communicated and integrated into the basis of all research conclusions and directives. Agriculture, Environment, and Health contributes to the productive building of bridges between research efforts across the fields of health, environment, and agriculture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816622924
SKU
V9780816622924
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Ref
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About Vernon Ruttan
Vernon W. Ruttan is Regents’ Professor in the Departments of Economics and Agricultural and Applied Economics and an adjunct professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

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