Global life systems
Subtitle: population, food, and disease in the process of globalization
By: Robert P. Clark
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Human ecology; Globalization; Population; Food supply; Diseases and history; Evolution (Biology); Social evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Life systems and globalization; title: Population; title: Food; title: Disease; title: Agriculture comes to Europe; title: The biology of the silk road; title: The biological impact of Europeans on Eastern North America, 1600-1800; title: Feeding industrial cities; title: Global food networks in the information age; title: Emerging (and re-emerging ) infectious diseases; title: The loss of biodiversity; title: Where do we go from here? The biology of interplanetary and interstellar migration