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The Earthscan reader in sustainable agriculture
Publisher
Earthscan
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
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Part 1: Agrarian and rural perspectives : The post-war task / Albert Howard
Thinking like a mountain / Aldo Leopold
The unsettling of America / Wendell Berry
Ecological literacy / David Orr
An Amish perspective / David Kline
Becoming native to this place / Wes Jackson
Creating social capital / Cornelia Flora and Jan Flora
Part 2: Agroecological perspectives : Reality cheques / Jules Pretty
The external costs of agricultural production in the United States / Erin Tegtmeier and Mike Duffy
From pesticides to people: improving ecosystem health in the northern Andes / Steven Sherwood [...et al.]
Agroecology and agroecosystems / Stephen R. Gliessman
The doubly green revolution / Gordon Conway
Part 3: Social perspectives : Reversals, institutions and change / Robert Chambers
The Hawkesbury experience: tales from a road less travelled / Richard Bawden
Social capital and the collective management of resources / Jules Pretty
Gateway to the global garden: beta/gamma science for dealing with ecological rationality / Niels Röling
Ecological basis for low-toxicity integrated pest management (IPM) in rice / Kevin Gallagher [...et al.]
Part 4: Perspectives from industrialised countries : Landscapes lost and found / Jules Pretty
The farm as natural habitat / Dana L. Jackson
Diet and health: diseases and food / Tim Lang and Michael Heasman
Coming to the foodshed / Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., John Hendrickson and G.W. Stevenson
Part 5: Perspectives from developing countries : Rethinking agriculture for new opportunities / Erick Fernandes, Alice Pell and Norman Uphoff
Soil recuperation in Central America: how innovation was sustained after Project Intervention / Roland Bunch and Gabinó López
Sustainable rural life and agroecology, Santa Catarina State, Brazil / Sergio Pinheiro
Lessons of Cuban resistance / Peter Rosset & Martin Bourque
Benefits from agroforestry in Africa, with examples from Kenya and Zambia / Pedro A. Sanchez
Reducing food poverty by increasing agricultural sustainability in developing countries / Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine.
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9781844072361
9781844072354
9781844072354
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