Title: Globalization and the rural environment /
Authors: Solbrig, Otto Thomas.; Paarlberg, Robert L.; Di Castri, Francesco.; Solbrig, Otto T.; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies ;
Physical description: xv, 535 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: A Europe without peasants / Guy Sorman -- The impact of globalization and the information society on the rural space: conceptual analysis and some policy suggestions / Otto T. Solbrig -- Cycles of globalization, economic growth, and human welfare in latin America / John H. Coatsworth -- Are famine and malnutrition questions of supply or demand? Implications for environmental rural sustainability / Rocío Fernández Alés and Otto T. Solbrig -- Impacts of agronomic technologies on rural environments -- introduction / Otto T. Solbrig -- Production systems in the Argentine Pampas and their ecological impact / Emilio H. Satorre -- The impact of Global changes on the rural environment in Ecoregions of the Southern Cone of South America / Ernesto T. Viglizzo -- Ecological impacts of modern agriculture in the United States and Latin America / Miguel A. Altieri and Clara Ines Nicholls. Sustainable agriculture in the lowlands subtropics and neotropics? Trends and bioeconomic opportunities and constraints / Raúl R. Vera -- Environmental impacts of globalization and agriculture on the environment / Pierre Corsson -- Direct seed cropping in Argentina: economic, agronomic and sustainability benefits / Roberto A. Peiretti -- The environmentally positive aspects of the agrochemical industry in Argentina / Carlos salvador -- The impact of biotechnology in South America / Rolando Meninato -- Technology, gene research, and national competitiveness / Juan Enriquez -- Environmental impacts of modern agriculture: the role of policy and trade liberalization / Sandra S. Batie -- The impact of environmental policies, consumer behavior and information technology on agricultural trade, with special reference to Europe / Jan C. Blom. The impact of modern agricultural technologies: economics' usefulness in the debate about future directions for agriculture / Otto Doering -- Environmental impacts of globalization through trade liberalization in agriculture; analyzing the empirical evidence from Latin America / Eugenio Figueroa B. -- Globalization and agriculture: some facts, interpretations, and policy issues / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla -- Different EU and US perspectives on biotechnology and their implications for trade relations / Wyn Grant -- Forging new connections between agriculture and the city / Max J. Pfeffer, J. Mayone Stycos, Leland Glenna, and Joyce Altobelli -- Urban sprawl and landscape perturbation in high quality farmland ecosystems: the case of the Buenos Aires metropolitan region / Jorge Morello, Silvia D. Matteucci, and Gustavo Buzai -- Rural values and the european view of agriculture / Francesco di Castri. Where to turn for remedies?/ Robert Paarlberg.
Notes: Papers from the conference entitled "The Impact of Globalization and the Information Society on the Rural Environment" which took place in Cambridge, MA, USA, Jan. 19-21, 2000.
Subject headings (LCSH): Globalization--Congresses; Rural development--Environmental aspects--Congresses.