Tropical Bioproductivity: Origins and Distribution in a Globalized World

ISBN-13: 9780367662738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 316 str.

David Hammond

Opis

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically Net Primary Productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

Recenzje

"In Tropical Bioproductivity, Hammond examines the bioproductivity of tropics and how that bioproductivity relates to globalization over time. In particular, he focuses on how the biological wealth of the tropics spurred on European invasion and colonization in pursuit of economic growth, leading to great changes in tropical countries and ecosystems while also transforming Europe. Hammond follows this interplay through to the modern globalized economy to consider how the tropics’ unique bioproductivity has proven both a benefit and a burden for tropical nations. He brings an expansive approach to the topic; he draws on disciplines ranging from botany to economy to history, and he manages to weave these together into a compelling whole. Written with a storyteller’s sense of narrative and supported with ample quantitative data, Tropical Bioproductivity will be of great interest to those whose work focuses on the tropics, tropical ecosystems, and globalization." Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty --CHOICE (J. L. Rhoades, Antioch University New England)

Spis treści

Preface  Part I Structure, Origins and Distribution  1. Two Tropics  2. Planet’s Powerhouse  3. The Blue and the Green  Part II Exchange and Globalization  4. An Icelandic Banana  5. The Great Crop Swap  6. Sweet Salt and the Tropical Trade  7. Productivity’s Promise  Part III Modern Consequences  8. Smaller, Younger, Poorer  9. The Braided Flow of Resources, Money and People

O autorze

David S. Hammond is Principal, NWFS Consultancy, based in Ashford, Kent, UK and Portland, Oregon, USA. He has undertaken environmental projects in a dozen countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa for clients such as WWF-UK, UNDP, UK DFID, IUCN and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was previously at the Iwokrama International Centre in Georgetown, Guyana, CABI Bioscience and Imperial College, UK.