Over the past decade, policy makers, management agencies, and academic scientists have
shown increasing interest in ecosystem‐based management (EBM). Yet, the extent that EBM …

Despite numerous future promises, there is a multitude of concerns about the impact of GM
crops on the environment. Key issues in the environmental assessment of GM crops are …

This article describes an experimental Hunger and Climate Vulnerability Index showing the
relative vulnerability of food insecure populations to climate risks at country level, as a tool …

Named a Notable Book for 2005 by the American Library Association, One with Nineveh is a
fresh synthesis of the major issues of our time, now brought up to date with an afterword for …

In recent years society has come to expect more from the “socially-responsible” company
and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in particular has resulted in some critics saying that the …

Background Since 2015, food insecurity has been a more serious threat than the previous
years with a record high observed from the year 2020 onwards, especially in developing …

This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1,000 entries
that focuses on topics in physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology …

For most people, the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing
one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics. A handful of …

In this chapter both theory and empirics are used to show that our picture of the processes of
economic development changes radically when nature is introduced as a capital asset …

Due to increasing problems occurring from massive applications of pesticides, such as
insect resistance to pesticides, the use of biotechnological tools to minimize losses from …