Title The Agricultural scientific enterprise : a system in transition / edited by Lawrence Busch and William B. Lacy

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Description 1 online resource Series Westview special studies in agriculture science and policy Westview special studies in agriculture science and policy. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part One Historical and Philosophical Context; 1 From State Chemistry to State Science: The Transformation of the Idea of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 1875-1887; 2 Policy Conflicts in Agricultural Research: Historical Perspective and Today's Challenges; 3 The Value Measure in Public Agricultural Research; 4 The Moral Factor in Innovative Research; 5 Policy Science in the Land Grant Colleges: Implications of Recent Developments in Public Choice Theory and the Philosophy of Science; Part Two Research Priority Setting 6 The Dynamic Tension Between the Scientific Enterprise and the Political Process: Priority Setting in Agricultural Research7 The CSRS Scientist: A Role in Transition; 8 Research Funding and Priority Setting in State Agricultural Experiment Stations; 9 The Emerging Role of the Computer in Managing for Excellence; Part Three Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research; 10 The Pretechnology Agricultural Sciences; 11 A Century of Periodic Research on Soil Conservation; 12 Development of an Interdisciplinary, Interagency Integrated Pest Management Project in the Western United States Part Four Commodity Studies13 A Comparative Study of Rice Research in California, Texas Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; 14 Tradition and Innovation in Agriculture: A Comparison of Public and Private Development of Hybrid Corn; 15 History of Wheat Research at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station; Part Five The Experiment Stations and Science Education; 16 The Supply of New Agricultural Scientists by U.S. Land Grant Universities: 1920-1979; 17 The Contribution of U.S. Universities to Training Foreign Agricultural Scientists Part Six Dissemination and Impact of Experiment Station Science18 U.S. Agricultural Research and International Agricultural Research Centers: An Institutional Comparison; 19 The Interrelationships of Agricultural Research and Farm Structure; Part Seven Future Directions; 20 Toward a New Covenant for Agricultural Academe; 21 Research and Technology Transfer Linkages in American Agriculture; 22 Industry/Land Grant University Relationships in Transition; Part Eight Conclusion; 23 A Second-Century Agenda for State Agricultural Experiment Stations: A View from the Twenty-First Century Summary The State Agricultural Experiment Stations have played a fundamental role in the development of science and agriculture in the United States. From their inception in 1887, the experiment stations have attempted to wed basic research with practical application and have helped institutionalize a utilitarian approach to agricultural science. Agricultural research and the new technology it helped to generate were major factors in the transformation of U.S. agriculture into a high technology, mechanized, science-based industry. Moreover, the experiment stations, as the first large-scale, publicly supported scientific research institutions in the United States, have also long been models for scientific institutions both here and abroad. Compiled for the 1987 centennial of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, this volume critically examines past performance, current issues, and future directions for public agricultural research in the United States. Each of the authors, drawn from disciplines as diverse as philosophy and agronomy, focuses on a central concern for the scientific enterprise. Issues include priority setting, maintaining and promoting disciplinary and interdisciplinary effectiveness, supporting higher education for agriculture, and efficacious dissemination of research findings. By setting these issues in their historical and philosophical context, the volume suggests new approaches for meeting the continuing challenge to achieve equity, efficiency, sustainability, flexibility, conservation, and consistency with other objectives of U.S. society Notes Originally published 1986 by Westview Press Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 19, 2019) SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Agriculture -- Research -- United States Agricultural experiment stations -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Agricultural experiment stations Agriculture -- Research Agrarforschung Forschungseinrichtung United States USA Form Electronic book Author Busch, Lawrence. Lacy, William B., 1942- ISBN 1000242641 9781000242645 0429308779 9780429308772 9781000314526 1000314529 9781000278583 1000278581

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