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Agricultural sustainability in a changing world order
- Title
- Agricultural sustainability in a changing world order / edited by Gordon K. Douglass.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1984.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Douglass, Gordon K., 1927-
- Description
- xiv, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- In sixteen contributions the problems of modern agriculture in both the western and the third world are discussed. The contributions are divided into three sections: 1. Sustainability as food sufficiency: resources, technology and economics. 2. Sustainability as stewardship: biology, ecology and population. This section deals with concepts of agriculture and 3. Sustainability as community : justice, participation and development. Modern agriculture as a crisis of culture
- Series Statement
- Westview special studies in agriculture science and policy
- Uniform Title
- Westview special studies in agriculture science and policy.
- Subject
- Agriculture
- Agricultural productivity
- Agricultural ecology
- Agricultural systems
- Food supply
- Agriculture > Social aspects
- Agriculture and state
- Agriculture
- farming (activity or system)
- Zukunft
- Weltwirtschaft
- Agrarkrise
- Landwirtschaftsentwicklung
- Agrarpolitik
- Erhaltung
- Weltlandwirtschaft
- Landwirtschaft
- Weltwirtschaftsordnung
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Agrarkrise
- Agrarpolitik
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Erhaltung
- Landwirtschaft
- Landwirtschaftsentwicklung
- Weltlandwirtschaft
- Weltwirtschaft
- Weltwirtschaftsordnung
- Zukunft
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Meanings of agricultural sustainability / Gordon K. Douglass -- World population growth, soil erosion, and food security / Lester R. Brown -- Sustainability as food sufficiency : resources, technology, and economics. Sustainability of U.S. agriculture : economic perspectives and policy issues / Kenneth R. Farrell -- Changes in the availability of agricultural land, the quality of soil, and the sustainability of agriculture / W.E. Larson -- Energy and the sustainability of the American agricultural system / William Lockeretz -- Socioeconomic equity and environmental quality in North American agriculture : alternative trajectories for future development / Frederick H. Buttel -- Induced innovation and agricultural development / Vernon W. Ruttan -- Global strategy for agriculture / Orville L. Freeman -- Sustainability as stewardship : biology, ecology, and population. Stewardship in agriculture / George E. Brown, Jr. -- Toward a unifying concept of agriculture / Wes Jackson -- Requirements of sustainable agroecosystems / Miguel A. Altieri, Deborah K. Letourneau, James R. Davis -- Resource management in traditional tropical agroecosystems in southeast Mexico / Stephen R. Gliessman -- sustainability as community : justice, participation, and development. Theology, perception, and agriculture / John B. Cobb -- Agricultural crisis as a crisis in culture / Wendell Berry -- Ecological, energetic, and agronomic systems of ancient and modern Sri Lanka / Ranil Senanayake -- Hope, ideas, and our only alternative, ourselves and our values : national heritage and the future of Sri Lanka agriculture / Jerry A. Moles, James B. Riker -- Conclusion: sustainability for whom?
- ISBN
- 0865316694
- 9780865316690
- LCCN
- 83050977
- OCLC
- ocm10590914
- 10590914
- SCSB-613628
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library