Environmental Change and Food Security in China

• Main Authors: Huang McBeath, Jenifer. (Author), McBeath, Jerry. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 35
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Food science.; Agriculture.; Plant diseases.; Climatic changes.; Environmental law.; Political science.; Life Sciences.; Political Science.; Plant Pathology.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Food Science.; Climate Change.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9180-3

With 22 percent of the worlds population but only 7 percent of its arable land, Chinas food situation is a matter of global concern. Environmental Change and Food Security in China, is the first to introduce comprehensively the threats to Chinas system of food production, distribution, and consum...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• List of tables and figures
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Communist role and the food security situation
• 3 Immediate environmental stressors on food security
• Near-term environment stressors: climate change
• 5. Plant diseases pests and food security
• 6 Invasive species and food security
• 7 Biotechnological responses to food security needs
• 8 The legal and institutional framework to address food security needs
• 9 Issues in implementing food security in China
• 10 Summary and conclusions
• Index.