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1 online resource (178 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy; Introduction; Conference; Conference Results; Conclusions; The Future Context of Sustainable Agriculture: Planning for Uncertainty; Introduction; Future Trends and Uncertainties; Predicting Effects; A Strategy for Dealing with Uncertainty; Conclusions; Federal Policies as Incentives or Disincentives to Ecologically Sustainable Agricultural Systems; Introduction; Current Agricultural Systems |
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Characteristics of Farming and SustainabilityFederal Policies and the Way Farmers Farm; Bringing About Change in the Way Farmers Farm; Conclusions; Building Sustainable Agriculture: A New Application of Farming Systems Research and Extension; Introduction; Sustainable Farming Systems Research and Extension; Conclusions; Ecological Sustainability in Agricultural Systems: Definition and Measurement; Introduction; Definition of Sustainable Agriculture; Monitoring Agroecosystem Sustainability; Using Knowledge of Soil Nutrient Cycling Processes to Design Sustainable Agriculture; Introduction |
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Nutrient Cycling and Soil ProcessesManaging Nutrient Cycles; Nutrient Cycling and Diversity of Soil Biota; Conclusions and Future Directions for Research; Landscape Ecology: Designing Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes; Introduction; Transdisciplinary Theory and Concepts: A Landscape Perspective; Transdisciplinary Approaches: A Landscape Perspective; Discussion: A Futuristic Perspective; Conclusions; Sustainable Agriculture Research at the Watershed Scale; Sustainability in an Environmental Quality Context; The Watershed as an Appropriate Spatial Scale for Assessing Ecological Sustainability |
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Idealized Approach to the Study of Watershed-Scale SustainabilityTwo Practical Approaches to the Study of Ecological Sustainability at the Watershed or Landscape Level; Conclusions; Addressing Information Needs to Support Sustainable Agriculture Policies; Introduction; Information and Analysis Leading Up to the Food Security Act of 1985; Providing Information to Support Multiple-Objective Programs; CRP Information Gaps; Sustainable Agriculture Information Gaps; Conclusions; Reducing Agricultural Impacts on the Environment: Current EPA Program and Research Activities- And Future Directions |
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IntroductionEPA Policy Priorities and Programs; EPA Research Strategy and Programs; Recommendations for Sustainable Agriculture Research at EPA; Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program: With Special Reference to the Science of Ecology; Introduction; Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program; Current State of Sustainable Agriculture; Conclusion; Precollege Education: A Vital Component If Sustainable Agriculture Is to Take Root; Introduction; Agricultural Education in the United States; Sustainable Agriculture as a Theme in Science Education |
| Summary |
Find an interdiscliplinary view of sustainable agriculture that emphasizes the potential contributions of ecology to agricultural sustainability in this groundbreaking book. Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy explores how ecological knowledge, applied as part of a multidisciplinary effort, can be used to design a sustainable and environmentally sound agriculture. A more ecologically based agriculture can increase production efficiency and decrease environmental impacts, but hard choices regarding population control, energy conservation, and land use must still be made. This interdisciplinary approach ensures that the results are beneficial to all components, for example, an ecologically based management scheme which bankrupts the farmer is not considered a viable option for sustainable agriculture. These thought-provoking chapters are an excellent introduction to the contributions of ecological principles to an environmentally sound sustainable agriculture. This multidisciplinary examination provides readers interested in agriculture with a valuable introduction to related work in other fields including ecology and economics. Agronomists, ecologists, educators, and policymakers will find essential information on diverse topics including: the definition and measurement of ecological sustainability in agriculture landscape ecology and the design of sustainable agricultural landscapes soil ecology as a foundation for sustainable agriculture Federal agricultural policies as incentives or deterrent to sustainable agriculture applying farming systems research and extension to sustainable agriculture population growth and other threats to sustainable agriculture environmental policies and their effects on sustainable agriculture the role of precollege education in developing sustainable agriculture |
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Scientist/Farmcr/Educator Partnerships |
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Print version record |
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Agricultural ecology -- Congresses
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Sustainable agriculture -- Congresses
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Agricultural ecology -- United States -- Congresses
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Agriculture and state -- United States -- Congresses
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Environmental policy -- United States -- Congresses
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Sustainable agriculture -- United States -- Congresses
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Agricultural ecology
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Agriculture and state
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Environmental policy
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Sustainable agriculture
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olson, Richard K
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| ISBN |
9781351437806 |
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1351437801 |
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