The Development of the Organic Network: Linking People and Themes, 1945-95 - Softcover

Conford, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086315803X ISBN 13: 9780863158032

Publisher: Floris Books, 2011

Synopsis

In this far-reaching book, Philip Conford continues his survey of the British organic movement, which he began in The Origins of the Organic Movement (2001). This volume covers the movement from 1945 to the mid-1990s. It is the most thorough account of organic history to be published thus far.

Wide-ranging but closely detailed, the book examines the ways agriculture and food production became increasingly industrialized and technological during the post-war decades. In response, the organic movement urged an approach to agriculture based on awareness of ecological restraints and of the finitude of natural resources, seeking to cooperate with nature rather than dominate it.

About this title

About the Authors

Philip Conford, Ph.D., is a writer, broadcaster, and teacher, who obtained his doctorate through research into the history of the organic movement. He edited The Organic Tradition and A Future for the Land, and wrote The Personal World: John Macmurray on Self and Society.

Jonathon Porritt, CBE, is cofounder and program director of Forum for the Future. A leading adviser to business and industry, he was appointed by Tony Blair as chair of the new UK Sustainable Development Commission. He is codirector of The Prince of Wales's Business and Environment Program, as well as a board member of the South West Regional Development Agency in the UK. Porrit was named Green Personality of the Year for 2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: Floris Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 086315803X
• ISBN 13: 9780863158032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 477