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agricultural dependence



Forwarded with permission; thought many would appreciate knowing 
about this.  Ann

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> Date sent:      Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:50:53 +0000
> From:           SEAVERSG <GEOFF.SEAVERS@bbsrc.ac.uk>
> To:             aclark@crop.uoguelph.ca (Non Receipt Notification Requested) (IPM Return 
>                 Requested) 
> Subject:        agricultural dependence

> Dear Anne,
> 
> I saw your request on sanet and looked up a few references.
> 
> The Open University here in the UK has produced anumber of courses which may 
> contain relevent material. All of these have excellent course books which have 
> been published by reputable publishing houses.
> 
> U206 - Environment (1991) has four volumes and is published by Hodder and 
> Stoughton, Sevenoaks, Kent, Uk.
>     1. Environment and society
>     2. Environment, population and development
>     3. Energy, resources, and environment
>     4. Global environmental issues (ISBN 0-340-53362-5)
> 
> Course chair - Dr Phil Sarre
> 
> D215 - The shape of the world : Explorations in human geography (1995) has five 
> volumes and is published by  Oxford University press, Uk.
>     1. Geographical worlds
>     2. A shrinking world? Global uneveness and inequality
>     3. An overcrowded world? Population, resources and the environment
>     4. A place in the world? Places, cultures and globalisation
>     5. A global world? Reordering political space (ISBN 0-19-874193-6)
> 
> Course chair - Dr John Allen
> 
> DT210 - Environmental policy in an international context (EPIC) (1995) has 
> three volumes and is published by Arnold a member of Hodder Headline Group, 
> London, UK. Copublished in the Americas by Halstead press, an imprint of John 
> Wiley and sons, New York.
>     1. Perspectives
>     2. Conflicts
>     3. Prospects (ISBN 0-340-65262-4 / ISBN 0-470-23585-3)
> 
> Course chairs - Professor Andrew Blowers / Pieter Glasbergen 
> 
> Open University
> Milton Keynes
> MK7 6AG
> UK
> 
> You might also want to have a look at the Brundtland Report by the UN:-
> United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) Our 
> common future (The Brundtland Report), Oxford, Oxford University Press.
> 
> The BBC also did a radio program on the subject in March this year you can get 
> a transcript if you are willing to pay them for it:-
> File on Radio 4 - Sat 30 March 1996 5pm concerning farming cash crops in Africa 
> and the use of pesticides to create blemish-free french beans and flowers for 
> Uk supermarkets. 
> Transcript 20 English pounds, tape 35 English pounds
> Tel +44 171 580 4468 or
> +44 181 752 7938
> 
> I hope this helps you, please feel free to forward it to sanet if you think 
> they might be interested
> 
> Geoff Seavers
> IACR-Long Ashton Research Station
> Bristol
> BS18 9AF
> UK
> 
> Geoff.seavers@bbsrc.ac.uk
> 
ACLARK@crop.uoguelph.ca
Dr. E. Ann Clark
Associate Professor
Crop Science
University of Guelph
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