Political Ecologies of Meat

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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""List of figures""; ""List of tables""; ""List of contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""1 Introduction""; ""PART I THE 'LIVESTOCK REVOLUTION': GEOGRAPHIES AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""2 Evolution of a revolution: meat consumption and livestock production in the developing world""; ""3 Cattle ranching development in the Brazilian Amazon: looking at long-term trends to explore the transition towards sustainable beef cattle production""; ""4 The political ecology of factory farming in East Africa""

""5 A changing environment for livestock in South Africa""""PART II ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND MEAT PRODUCTION/CONSUMPTION""; ""6 Meat and inequality: environmental health consequences of livestock agribusiness""; ""7 Can't go to the fountain no more: pigs, nitrates and spring water pollution in Catalonia""; ""8 Environmental injustice in the spatial distribution of concentrated animal feeding operations: a case study from Ohio, USA""; ""9 Neoliberal governance and environmental risk: 'normal accidents' in North Carolina's hog industry""

""PART III BIOPOLITICS, KNOWLEDGE AND THE MATERIALISM OF MEAT""""10 Breed contra beef: the making of Piedmontese cattle""; ""11 Biopower and an ecology of genes: seeing livestock as meat via genetics""; ""12 Cows, climate and the media""; ""13 The political science of farm animal welfare in the US and EU""; ""14 Battling the head and the heart: constructing knowledgeable narratives of vegetarianism in anti-meat advocacy""; ""PART IV THE GOVERNANCE OF MEAT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS""; ""15 Producing Halal meat: the case of Halal sughter practices in Wales, UK""

""16 Roundtable governance and the greening of the global beef industry: lessons from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil""""17 Contesting urban agriculture: the politics of meat production in the license-buy-back scheme (2006-2007) in Hong Kong""; ""18 Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock: complications, implication and new political ecologies""; ""19 Domestic farmed fish production: an overview of governance and oversight in the US aquaculture industry""; ""20 Conclusion: affect and attribution""; ""Index""

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