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By Joan I Nassauer,Mary V Santelmann,Donald Scavia

ISBN-10: 1933115475

ISBN-13: 9781933115474

ISBN-10: 1933115483

ISBN-13: 9781933115481

meals from farms within the Mississippi River Basin are the top explanation for the Gulf of Mexico?s 'Dead Zone,' a 5,000 to 7,000 sq. mile area the place declining oxygen degrees are threatening the survival of marine existence. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf explores how new agricultural coverage will help alleviate this challenge, and whilst enhance water caliber total, improve biodiversity, enhance the standard of existence for the folk who stay and paintings in Corn Belt groups, and relieve downstream flooding. the topics of the publication are the far-reaching environmental affects of Corn Belt agriculture, together with linked financial and social results at a number of spatial scales - and the potential of destiny agricultural coverage to handle these affects via alterations in agricultural landscapes and practices. we all know that the environmental 'footprint' of Corn Belt agriculture extends past farmland and adjoining lakes and streams to groundwater, rivers, towns downstream, into the Gulf of Mexico, and, eventually, to international oceanic and atmospheric platforms. And we recognize that agricultural regulations, together with commodity aid funds, have fiscal affects on the nationwide and foreign degrees. urgent negotiations with America?s exchange companions, in addition to expanding societal realization to either the prices and environmental results of present agricultural coverage, are developing momentum for coverage change.

From the Corn Belt to the Gulf provides cutting edge, built-in exams of the agriculture and ecological structures within the Mississippi River Basin besides reports of neighborhood Iowa agricultural watersheds. participants from a number of educational disciplines speak about how agricultural rules have contributed to present environmental stipulations, and, in what the authors time period 'alternative futures' for agricultural landscapes, envision how new coverage can assist in achieving better patterns.

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