Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

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Earthscan, 2012 - 254 páginas
'Lester Brown advances our thinking on the food-security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come.' Sustain 'The book should be bought just to demonstrate how good arguments are put together.' Paul Ganderton Praise for Eco-Economy '[A] lucid and wide-ranging examination of how we can save our forests grow rich on power generated from wind and sun halt global warming and heal the ozone layer.' New Scientist Praise for the Author 'Widely respected environmental political thinker Lester Brown ... writes powerfully and accessibly and is eminently readable.' Times Higher Educa.

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Lester R. Brown is President of Earth Policy Institute, and has been described as 'one of the world's most influential thinkers' by The Washington Post. He is widely known as the Founder and former President of the Worldwatch Institute, whose Board he now chairs. He launched the influential State of the World reports, which are now published in over 30 languages. Brown has been honoured with numerous prizes, including the MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and Japan's Blue Planet Prize. He lives in Washington, DC.

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