Overview
- Explores indirect and direct relationships between environmental degradation and food security
- Comprehensive treatment of major factors influencing China’s food production, consumption and control systems
- Analyses of actors (national and sub-national officials, scientists, non-governmental organizations, media) involved in food policy formation and implementation
- Examination of recent controversies—GMOs and human health, "tainted" food product
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 35)
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Book Title: Environmental Change and Food Security in China
Authors: Jenifer Huang McBeath, Jerry McBeath
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9180-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9179-7Published: 30 April 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3203-2Published: 28 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9180-3Published: 25 March 2010
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 340
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Political Science, Plant Pathology, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice