Format:
1 Online-Ressource (178 pages)
ISBN:
9781351437806
Content:
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 -- Characteristics of Farming and Sustainability -- Federal 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 -- Nutrient Cycling and Soil Processes -- Managing 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
Content:
Idealized Approach to the Study of Watershed-Scale Sustainability -- Two 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 -- Introduction -- EPA 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 -- Scientist/Farmcr/Educator Partnerships -- Examples/Case Studies -- Conclusions
Additional Edition:
9781560220244
Additional Edition:
Print version Olson, Richard Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy Boca Raton : Routledge,c2018 9781560220244
Language:
English
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