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Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability - Bok - Inbunden

Explores the complex relationship between food security and sociopolitical stability and how the global food economy and climate patterns relevant to food production might change over the coming decade.

SEK 1706.00

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Food Fortification - The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food - Bok av Mark (Associate Professor and Director of the Food Policy

Food Fortification critically analyses mandatory food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting public health through presenting the findings from research investigation into three topical case studies.

SEK 1156.00

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Food Policy - Integrating health, environment and society - Bok av Tim (Professor of Food Policy Lang - Häftad

Food policy has long been viewed as an essential part of the public health agenda, but this book identifies the importance of environmental damage and social inequalities to these complex issues. The authors offer a comprehensive review of current and past food policy, proposing the need for a new ecological public health approach to food policy.

SEK 1246.00

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Oil for Food - The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East - Bok av Eckart (Senior Research Fellow Associate at the Barcelona Centre for International

Oil for Food draws on extensive sources and interviews to tell the story of how Arab Gulf countries reacted to the 2008 global food crisis. It argues against the hype created around so called land grabs and analyzes the geopolitical implications behind the investment drive of Arab Gulf countries in food insecure countries like Sudan or Pakistan.

SEK 1756.00

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Food Price Dynamics and Price Adjustment in the EU - Bok - Inbunden

This book addresses food price inflation and food price dynamics across the EU by bringing together innovative research both in terms of methodology and new sources of data by economists working at the forefront of these issues.

SEK 1880.00

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Aquatic Food Webs - An ecosystem approach - Bok - Häftad

Providing a synthesis of the issues in food web theory and its applications, this work covers issues of structure, function, scaling, complexity, and stability in the contexts of conservation, fisheries, and climate. It also focuses on aquatic food webs, and ecologists with an interest in this theory and its applications may find it useful.

SEK 1196.00

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The Loaded Table - Representations of Food in Roman Literature - Bok av Emily (formerly Lecturer in Latin Gowers - Häftad

It is food as represented in literature which provides the novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture used in this book. Through a new interpretation of various Latin works where food is described, the author explains why Roman writers so persistently depicted their society at the dinner table and why food was such a suggestive image for Roman civilization.

SEK 1526.00

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Food, Economics, and Health - Bok av Alok (Professor Bhargava - Inbunden

Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a summary of concepts and issues in several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of food policies in the developed and developing world.

SEK 1840.00

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Food Insecurity in India's Agricultural Heartland - Bok av Harpreet Kaur (Associate Professor Narang - Inbunden

This book brings to the fore the different dimensions of the deprivation of human capabilities and the intricate relationship between food security and economy, ecology, and state policy within the Indian state of Punjab.

SEK 1410.00

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Food Security - Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness - Bok - Inbunden

The fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the drive to end poverty. Yet the growing importance of the WTO and its role in shaping the agricultural trade agenda, has serious implications for food security across the globe. This volume attempts to redress the balance and provide a much needed debate on this important topic.

SEK 2040.00

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Energetic Food Webs - An analysis of real and model ecosystems - Bok av John C. (Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Moore - Häftad

Food webs describe biological communities in terms of feeding interactions. This book integrates the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystems energetics, and stability to dispel categorisation of the field into separate subdiciplines of population, community, and ecosystem ecology.

SEK 1090.00

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When Food Kills - BSE, E.coli and disaster science - Bok av T. Hugh ( Pennington - Inbunden

The 'food scare' concept took on new meaning in 1996, which opened with variant CJD emerging as the human form of BSE, and closed with Britain's worst E.coli O157 outbreak in central Scotland. As people died, so did trust in government and science. This book tells the story of these events, what led up to them, and what has happened since.

SEK 1441.00

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Compassion, by the Pound - The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare - Bok av F. Bailey (Associate Professor Norwood - Inbunden

This highly readable book is aimed at anyone with an interest in the food they eat. In conversational tone, and avoiding academic jargon, it provides an honest and objective account of the consequences of food consumption choices and policies, through the lens of economics.

SEK 1466.00

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The Biology of African Savannahs - Bok av Bryan (Honorary Professor Shorrocks - Häftad

This is a comprehensive update of this popular and practical introduction to savannah ecology, examining a range of ecological issues including population regulation, species interactions, food webs, biodiversity and conservation.

SEK 1090.00

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Grasses and Grassland Ecology - Bok av David J. (Southern Illinois University Gibson - Häftad

This book is the most up to date and thorough account of the natural history of the plants that comprise the most important food crop on Earth, the grasses and grasslands.

SEK 1070.00

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Behavioural and Neural Aspects of Learning and Memory - Bok - Inbunden

Explores the interrelationships between neural function and learning with reference to such topics as imprinting, song-learning food-storage, conditioning and other learning processes in a range of animals including human and non-human primates.

SEK 1146.00

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Who Needs Migrant Workers? - Labour shortages, immigration, and public policy - Bok - Inbunden

This book provides a framework for analysing labour immigration and public policy. It looks at the changing role of migrant workers and the demand for labour across six sectors: health, social care, hospitality, food production, construction, and financial services.

SEK 1310.00

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Predator Ecology - Evolutionary Ecology of the Functional Response - Bok av John P. (Professor of Biology and Director DeLong - Inbunden

Predator-prey interactions are ubiquitous, govern the flow of energy up trophic levels, and strongly influence the structure of ecological systems. They are typically quantified using the functional response - the relationship between a predator's foraging rate and the availability of food.

SEK 1360.00

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The Biology of Grasslands - Bok av Brian J. (Professor Wilsey - Inbunden

A comprehensive introduction to the biology of native and non-native grasslands which now cover approximately 50% of the terrestrial environment, providing essential ecosystem services and some of the most important areas for the production of food and fibre worldwide.

SEK 1746.00

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Conditioned Taste Aversion - Memory of a Special Kind - Bok av Jan ( Bures - Inbunden

Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a defence device protecting animals against repeated consumption of toxic food. This text, reviews the current state of research into CTA, providing a summary of research into the neuroanatomy, pharmacology, electrophysiology, and functional morphology of CTA.

SEK 1946.00

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Processes in Microbial Ecology - Bok av David L. (Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Biosciences Kirchman - Inbunden

Microbial ecology is the study of interactions among microbes in natural environments and their roles in biogeochemical cycles, food web dynamics, and the evolution of life. This book presents the basic principles of microbial ecology using examples from aquatic (freshwater and marine) and terrestrial ecosystems.

SEK 1796.00

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Science and Practice of Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Volume 2 - Process Chemistry and Extraction Operations in the Hydrometallurgical, Nuclear, Pharmaceu

This work presents an account of some of the fundamental aspects of liquid-liquid extraction technology together with an account of extraction processes in a number of important industries. Extraction techniques for specific applications are illustrated with reference to the hydrometallurgical, nuclear, pharmaceutical, and food industries.

SEK 1050.00

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Risk Communication and Public Health - Bok - Häftad

Controversies about risks to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or \lifestyle\ risks such as drinking. This book presents a broad view of the issues around risk communication and public health and covers the theoretical and research background involved.

SEK 1216.00

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Constituting Economic and Social Rights - Bok av Katharine G. (Associate Professor Young - Inbunden

Food, water, health, housing, and education are fundamental to human freedom and dignity, yet only recently have legal systems begun to secure these fundamental individual interests as rights. This book analyses the transformation of socio-economic rights into constitutional rights, and their impact on public law and constitutional theory.

SEK 1826.00

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Law and the Political Economy of Hunger - Bok av Anna (Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow Chadwick - Inbunden

After the global food crisis of 2007-2011, many Non-Government Organizations blamed speculators trading in commodity derivatives, viewing speculator driven high price volatility in grain markets as culpable for the disaster. Chadwick disagrees, arguing that current legal regimes bear far more responsibility for the tragedy of world hunger.

SEK 1600.00

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