Food from country to city, waste from city to country: an environmental symbiosis? Fertiliser improvement in eighteenth-century Flanders

Alternative approaches to resolve bottlenecks in food production often champion the reuse of urban organic waste as fertiliser in agriculture in order to close the nutrient cycle between city and country (cradle to cradle). References are often made to the past because environmental historians tend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pieter De Graef
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Brepols Publishers 2017-01-01
Series:Journal for the History of Environment and Society
Online Access:https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.JHES.5.114102