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FROM THE CORN BELT TO THE GULF: SOCIETAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL By Joan Nassauer VG
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- Book Title
- From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental
- ISBN-10
- 1933115483
- ISBN
- 9781933115481
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1933115483
ISBN-13
9781933115481
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60322256
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
From the Corn Belt to the Gulf : Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Agriculture / General, Ecology, Natural Resources
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Law, Political Science, Technology & Engineering
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2007-017250
Reviews
'Essential for anyone interested in the linkages between the management of our agricultural landscapes, downstream waterbased ecosystems, and the health of rural communities. This groundbreaking book analyzes ways to manage our Corn Belt�s farms in order to garner improved environmental outcomes - without pushing farmers from their lands.'Sandra S. Batie, Michigan State University'Solid science and inventive visions of the future show policymakers how landscapes that produce food, biofuels, environmental benefits, and community well-being could be the result of American agricultural policy.'Craig A. Cox, Soil and Water Conservation Society'Shows how land-use practices in the Midwest can have profound effects on the environment hundreds of miles away, and how confronting theseproblems requires insights from ecology, economics, and sociology... The book gives new meaning to broad-scale and broad-based approaches to current environmental issues.'John Wiens, The Nature Conservancy, 'Essential for anyone interested in the linkages between the management of our agricultural landscapes, downstream waterbased ecosystems, and the health of rural communities. This groundbreaking book analyzes ways to manage our Corn Belts farms in order to garner improved environmental outcomes - without pushing farmers from their lands.'Sandra S. Batie, Michigan State University'Solid science and inventive visions of the future show policymakers how landscapes that produce food, biofuels, environmental benefits, and community well-being could be the result of American agricultural policy.'Craig A. Cox, Soil and Water Conservation Society'Shows how land-use practices in the Midwest can have profound effects on the environment hundreds of miles away, and how confronting theseproblems requires insights from ecology, economics, and sociology... The book gives new meaning to broad-scale and broad-based approaches to current environmental issues.'John Wiens, The Nature Conservancy, 'Essential for anyone interested in the linkages between the management of our agricultural landscapes, downstream waterbased ecosystems, and the health of rural communities. This groundbreaking book analyzes ways to manage our Corn Belt s farms in order to garner improved environmental outcomes - without pushing farmers from their lands.'Sandra S. Batie, Michigan State University'Solid science and inventive visions of the future show policymakers how landscapes that produce food, biofuels, environmental benefits, and community well-being could be the result of American agricultural policy.'Craig A. Cox, Soil and Water Conservation Society'Shows how land-use practices in the Midwest can have profound effects on the environment hundreds of miles away, and how confronting theseproblems requires insights from ecology, economics, and sociology... The book gives new meaning to broad-scale and broad-based approaches to current environmental issues.'John Wiens, The Nature Conservancy
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
338.1/620977
Table Of Content
Preface: Corn Belt Agricultural Landscape Values: Learning in the FieldIntroduction1. Policy insights from alternative futures and integrated assessmentsSection 1: Environmental and societal drivers of agricultural landscape futures2. Corn Belt Landscapes and Hypoxia of the Gulf of Mexico3. Changing Societal Expectations for Environmental Benefits from Agricultural PolicySection 2: Assessing the Effects of Alternative Corn Belt Landscape Futures in Iowa4. Alternative Scenarios for Future Iowa Agricultural Landscapes5. Economic Implications6. Farmers Perceptions7. Water Quality8. Plant Diversity9. Pollinator Responses10. Amphibian Population Dynamics11. Impacts on Mammal Communities: A Spatially Explicit Model12. Impacts on Mammal Communities: Landscape Indices13. Wildlife HabitatSection 3: Policy Implications across Scales: From Iowa Watersheds to the Mississippi River Basin14. An Integrated Assessment of Alternative Futures for Iowa Watersheds15. Improving Water Quality from the Corn Belt to the Gulf16. Agricultural Policy Choices
Synopsis
Nutrients from farms in the Mississippi River Basin are the leading cause of the Gulf of Mexico's 'Dead Zone,' a 5,000 to 7,000 square mile region where declining oxygen levels are threatening the survival of marine life. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf explores how new agricultural policy can help alleviate this problem, and at the same time improve water quality overall, enhance biodiversity, improve the quality of life for the people who live and work in Corn Belt communities, and relieve downstream flooding. The themes of the book are the far-reaching environmental impacts of Corn Belt agriculture, including associated economic and social effects at multiple spatial scales - and the potential for future agricultural policy to address those impacts through changes in agricultural landscapes and practices. We know that the environmental 'footprint' of Corn Belt agriculture extends beyond farmland and adjacent lakes and streams to groundwater, rivers, cities downstream, into the Gulf of Mexico, and, ultimately, to global oceanic and atmospheric systems. And we acknowledge that agricultural policies, including commodity support payments, have economic impacts at the national and international levels. Pressing negotiations with America's trade partners, along with increasing societal attention to both the costs and environmental effects of current agricultural policy, are creating momentum for policy change.From the Corn Belt to the Gulf presents innovative, integrated assessments of the agriculture and ecological systems in the Mississippi River Basin along with studies of local Iowa agricultural watersheds. Contributors from multiple academic and professional disciplines discuss how agricultural policies have contributed to current environmental conditions, and, in what the authors term 'alternative futures' for agricultural landscapes, envision how new policy can help achieve more beneficial patterns., Nutrients from farms in the Mississippi River Basin are the leading cause of the Gulf of Mexico's 'Dead Zone, ' a 5,000 to 7,000 square mile region where declining oxygen levels are threatening the survival of marine life. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf explores how new agricultural policy can help alleviate this problem, and at the same time improve water quality overall, enhance biodiversity, improve the quality of life for the people who live and work in Corn Belt communities, and relieve downstream flooding. The themes of the book are the far-reaching environmental impacts of Corn Belt agriculture, including associated economic and social effects at multiple spatial scales - and the potential for future agricultural policy to address those impacts through changes in agricultural landscapes and practices. We know that the environmental 'footprint' of Corn Belt agriculture extends beyond farmland and adjacent lakes and streams to groundwater, rivers, cities downstream, into the Gulf of Mexico, and, ultimately, to global oceanic and atmospheric systems. And we acknowledge that agricultural policies, including commodity support payments, have economic impacts at the national and international levels. Pressing negotiations with America's trade partners, along with increasing societal attention to both the costs and environmental effects of current agricultural policy, are creating momentum for policy change. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf presents innovative, integrated assessments of the agriculture and ecological systems in the Mississippi River Basin along with studies of local Iowa agricultural watersheds. Contributors from multiple academic and professional disciplines discuss how agricultural policies have contributed to current environmental conditions, and, in what the authors term 'alternative futures' for agricultural landscapes, envision how new policy can help achieve more beneficial patterns.
LC Classification Number
S589.757.M57F76 2007
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