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Notes on authors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction / Jody Emel and Harvey Neo -- The "livestock revolution" : geographies and implications -- Evolution of a revolution : meat consumption and livestock production in the developing world / Ian MacLachlan -- Cattle ranching development in the Brazilian Amazon : looking at long-term trends to explore the transition towards sustainable beef cattle production / Pablo Pacheco and Rene Poccard-Chapuis -- The political ecology of factory farming in East Africa / Elizabeth Waithanji -- A changing environment for livestock in South Africa / Emma R.M. Archer van Garderen, Charles L. Davis and Mark A. Tadross -- Environmental justice and meat production/consumption -- Meat and inequality : environmental health consequences of livestock agribusiness / Ryan Gunderson -- Can't go to the fountain no more : pigs, nitrates and spring water pollution in Catalonia / David Sauri and Hug March -- Environmental injustice in the spatial distribution of concentrated animal feeding operations : a case study from Ohio, USA / Julia Lenhardt and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger -- Neoliberal governance and environmental risk : "normal accidents" in North Carolina's hog industry / Elizabeth Stoddard -- Biopolitics, knowledge, and the materialism of meat -- Breed contra beef : the making of the piedmontese cattle / Annalisa Colombino and Paolo Giaccaria -- Biopower and an ecology of genes : seeing livestock as meat via genetics / Lewis Holloway -- Cows, climate and the media / Keith Lee, Joshua P. Newell, Jennifer R. Wolch and Pascale Joassart Marcelli -- The political science of farm animal welfare in the US and EU / Connie Johnston -- Battling the head and the heart : constructing knowleDgeable narratives of vegetarianism in anti-meat advocacy / Harvey Neo -- The governance of meat production systems -- Producing halal meat : the case of halal slaughter practices in Wales, UK / Mara Miele and Karolina Rucinska -- Roundtabling and the greening of the global beef industry : lessons from the roundtable on sustainable palm oil (RSPO / Adrienne Johnson -- Contesting urban agriculture : the politics of meat production in the license-buy-back scheme (2006-2007) in Hong Kong / Kin Wing Chan -- Complications and implications of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock / Paul Rosin and Mark H. Cooper -- Domestic farmed fish production : an overview of governance and oversight in the us aquaculture industry / Paula Daniels and Colleen McKinney -- Conclusion / Jody Emel and Harvey Neo -- Index. |