The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains. Livestock in a Changing Landscape offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends.
The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food...

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains. Livestock in a Changing Landscape offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends.
The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food...

This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed.
Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how...