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161by Misrach, Richard, 1949-Table of Contents “...Ecological atlas / Kate Orff : Oil : Essay ; From the earth to the sky ; From Spindletop to Chevron ; Depths of addiction ; Consumerism ; Petrochemical landscape -- Infrastructure : Essay ; From seabed to swamp ; From salt dome to pipe ; From pipe to plastic bag ; The ethylene network ; Export corridors ; Pipeline to America -- Waste : Essay ; Pits, ponds, and pipes ; Deep in the ground, up in the air ; Toxics release mapping ; The ecology of waste ; Metabolizing waste -- Displacement : Essay ; Morisonville dream ; Regional displacement over time ; Past and future imagined ; The transformation of Taft ; Cancer alleys around the world -- Ecology/economy : Essay ; Requiem for a bayou ; Mississippi cultures past ; Portrait of growth: ecological economies ; Portrait of decline: the gulf under siege ; Life and livelihoods at risk -- Food : Essay ; The synthetic nitrogen cycle ; The industrial food chain ; "Food-like substance" alley ; Dead zones -- Landscape : Essay ; The landscape we have made ; Bigger, farther, filled with more stuff ; The lonely shopping cart ; Redrawing the map -- Appendix : Glossary of terms and solutions for a post-petrochemical culture....”
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163by Smil, VaclavTable of Contents “...: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Meat in Nutrition; Meat Eating and Health: Benefits and Concerns; Meat and its nutrients; Meat as a source of food energy; High-quality protein and human growth; Carnivory and civilizational diseases; Diseased meat; 2 Meat in Human Evolution; Hunting Wild Animals: Meat in Human Evolution; Primates and hominins; Meat consumption during the Paleolithic period; Extinction of the late Pleistocene megafauna; Hunting in different ecosystems; Wild meat in sedentary societies; Traditional Societies: Animals, Diets and LimitsDomestication of animals; Population densities and environmental imperatives; Long stagnation of typical meat intakes; Avoidances, taboos and proscriptions; Meat as a prestige food; 3 Meat in Modern Societies; Dietary Transition: Modernization of Tastes; Urbanization and industrialization; Long-distance meat trade; Meat in the Western dietary transition; Transitions in modernizing economies; Globalization of tastes; Output and Consumption: Modern Meat Chain; Changing life cycles; Slaughtering of animals; Processing meat; Consuming and wasting meatMaking sense of meat statistics; 4 What It Takes to Produce Meat; Modern Meat Production: Practices and Trends; Meat from pastures and mixed farming; Confined animal feeding; Animal feedstuffs; Productivity efficiencies and changes; Treatment of animals; Meat: An Environmentally Expensive Food; Animal densities and aggregate zoomass; Changing animal landscapes; Intensive production of feedstuffs; Water use and water pollution; Meat and the atmosphere; 5 Possible Futures; Toward Rational Meat Eating: Alternatives and Adjustments; Meatless diets; Meat substitutes and cultured meatProtein from other animal foodstuffs; Less meaty diets; A large potential for rational meat production; Prospects for Change; References; Index...”
Published 2013
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165Published 2020Table of Contents “...-Microplastics in inland small waterbodies -- Microplastics in the sediments: From rivers to lakes investigated in the biggest freshwater lake (Poyang Lake) basin and Yangtze River in China -- Sources of microplastic in the environment -- Interaction of microplastics and organic pollutants: quantification, environmental fates and ecological consequences -- Interaction of microplastics and heavy metals: toxicity, mechanisms and environmental implications -- Microplastics and their effects on soil function as a life-supporting system -- Occurrence and ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems -- Microplastics in soil ecosystem: insight on its fate and impacts on soil quality -- The toxicity of (nano)microplastics on C. elegans and its mechanisms -- Uptake of microplastics and their effects on plants -- Biofilms of microplastics -- Tissue accumulation of microplastics and toxic effects: Widespread health risks of microplastics exposure -- Microplastics in food: health risks -- Microplastics in aquaculture systems and their transfer in the food chain -- Biodegradation of plastics in Tenebrio genus (mealworms) -- Plastics of the future? ...”
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168by Siikala, Anna-LeenaTable of Contents “...The structure of becoming; Coming into being ; From indefinite numbers to definite qualities; One and many in this world;The Great Chain of Being -- V Returnings:state and culture 13. ...”
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169Table of Contents “...Matthias goes to Washington -- Labor on the lam -- "Labor shortage" -- Defending the nation -- The city plutonium built -- Work and the women left holding plutonium -- Hazards -- The food chain -- Of flies, mice and men -- Part Two. ...”
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170Published 2023Table of Contents “...Dr Severine van Bommel is an interdisciplinary social scientist working in the field of extension and rural development in agri-food systems and is currently leader of the Rural Development Group within the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at University of Queensland. ...”
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172by Sheppard, Charles (Charles R. C.)Table of Contents “...Reef Fishes: Diversity, Feeding, and Food Chains -- 7. Reef Fisheries and Reef Aquaculture -- 8. ...”
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175Published 2012Table of Contents “...Distribution and Supply Chain Management -- YvesCreations LLC: Alex Goes to Hollywood -- Eureka Forbes Ltd.: Growing the Water Purifier Business -- Kraft Foods: The Coffee Pod Launch -- 13. ...”
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180Published 2009Table of Contents “...The big lie : human restoration of nature / Erik Katz -- Ecological restoration and the culture of nature : a pragmatic perspective / Andrew Light -- The brave new world of animal biotechnology / Strachan Donnelley -- Ethics and genetically modified food / Gary Comstock -- What's wrong with functional foods? ...”
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