Environmental Impacts of Tropical Soybean and Palm Oil Crops
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online February 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Ecology and Conservation; Politics; Sustainability; Agriculture and Farming. 19371 words.
Oil crops play a critical role in global food and energy systems. Since these crops have high oil content, they provide cooking oils for human consumption, biofuels for energy, feed for...
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Forbes, Stephen Alfred
in American National Biography Online
January 1999; p ublished online February 2000 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: US Politics; State and Local Government; Entomology; Ecology and Conservation. 1237 words.
Forbes, Stephen Alfred (29 May 1844–13 March 1930), ecologist, state entomologist of Illinois, and chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, was born in a log cabin in Silver Creek,...
History of Ecological Design
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
P ublished online April 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Ecology and Conservation; Politics; Environmental History; Sustainability. 23233 words.
The term ecological design was coined in a 1996 book by Sim van der Ryn and Stewart Cowan, in which the authors argued for a seamless integration of human activities with natural processes...
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