Land resources : on the edge of the Malthusian precipice? /
A discussion meeting was held at the Royal Society in London in December 1996 which brought together leading scientists concerned with natural resource management to make a critical assessment of the production potential of the available land. The papers have also been published as an issue of The P...
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Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
CAB International in association with The Royal Society,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Population momentum and the demand on land and water resources /
- G. Fischer and G.K. Heilig
- Discussion /
- A. Young, P.L.G. Vlek and P.B. Tinker
- The economic determinants of land degradation in developing countries /
- E.B. Barbier
- Discussion /
- P.A. Sanchez, R. Thomas and A. Wagner
- Adapting and improving crops: the endless task /
- L.T. Evans
- Discussion /
- J.S. Wallace and F. Beavington
- Agroecological zones and the assessment of crop production potential /
- M.V.K. Sivakumar and C. Valentin
- Discussion /
- P. Wood, P. Bullock and T. Henzell
- Potential and attainable food production and food security in different regions /
- F.W.T. Penning de Vries, R. Rabbinge and J.J.R. Groot.