| OPINION |
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| Rebooting Reality |
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| Natural Capitalists Target Arable |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF |
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| Return of the Round Table • Measuring Hydrogen • In-Q-Tel • Sty in the Sky • Solar Parasols • Phosphorus: Too Much But Not Enough |
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| AGRICULTURE |
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| Cow Burps Seen From Space? |
| Paul Lovatt Smith examines the source of methane leaks in California. |
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| Vegan Mendacity |
| How a poster campaign on the London underground manipulates statistics. |
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| Boer Wars |
| What is behind the crisis in Dutch agriculture? |
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| City State Holland |
| Is there a future for Dutch industrial farmers? Vincent ter Beek wonders . . . |
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| A Dangerous Moment |
| . . . while Jan Douwe van der Ploeg would be happy to see them disappear. |
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| Thrown to the Thistles |
| George Dunn speaks up for hill farmers facing rewilding plans. |
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| National Trust “Land Grabs” |
| Its membership is divided about whether to rewild its farms. |
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| Faux Meadows |
| Simon Fairlie voices misgivings about the fashion for “wildflowers” . . . |
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| Conservation Meadows |
| . . . and Richard Brown responds. |
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| Dangling Carrots |
| Daniel Fox looks into ELMS funding proposals for organics. |
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| WORKING WITH WATER |
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| When Wetter May Be Better |
| Paludiculture has pros and cons, thinks a doubtful Gill Barron. |
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| Chinampa! |
| The Aztec answer to thriving in a wet world. |
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| A Tale of Web-Toed Tigers |
| Greg Frey recounts the history of fenland revolts against drainage. |
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| Amphibious Architecture |
| Let’s build on stilts for a wetter future. |
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| Drowning the Land |
| Ingenious old ways to make floods enhance fertility are explained by Chris Riley. |
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| COMMONS |
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| Whispers of Better Things |
| Helen Baczkowska on how to create new commons. |
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| A Forest Lottery |
| César Tomé describes a flourishing forest commons in Spain. |
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| Freeman’s Wood – A Success Story |
| Emily Heath explains how a new Town Green was registered. |
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| COVID |
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| The Covid Consensus |
| Toby Green and Thomas Fazi look back at a curious moment in modern history. |
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| RATIONING |
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| Introduction |
| What do we mean by “rationing”? |
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| Any Way You Slice It |
| Stan Cox provides an overview of different rationing systems. |
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| The Welcome Return of Rationing |
| Shaun Chamberlin explains Tradable Energy Quotas. |
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| Land Rationing |
| Three ways of allocating land more equitably are examined by Simon Fairlie. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
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| Staying Afloat |
| Housing and leisure clash on London’s canals. Gill Barron hopes for a settlement. |
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