Sustainable farmland management : transdisciplinary approaches /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Farm management.; Sustainable agriculture.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Land Resources.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Agricultural land.; Agricultural policy.; Ethics.; Farming systems.; Knowledge.; Land management.; Politics.; Sustainability.; Systems approach.; Electronic books.
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This edited collection is an exercise in transdisciplinary reflection on sustainable farmland management. It includes contributions from leading academics and emerging researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including economics, agricultural sciences, geography and environmental science...

Table of Contents:

• Agendas for sustainable farmland management / R. Fish, S. Seymour, C. Watkins and M. Steven
• The elusive quest for sustainable agriculture / T. O'Riordan
• The contested concept of sustainability in agriculture : an examination of the views of policymakers, scientists and farmers / K.N. Baginetas
• Historical dimensions of sustainable farming / J.V. Beckett
• Soils and sustainability : the future of the South Downs / J. Boardman
• The role of organics within sustainable farmland management / M. Reed
• Just knowledge? Governing research on food and farming / T. MacMillan
• Agricultural advisers and the transition to sustainable soil management in England : a focus on agronomists' understanding of soil / J. Ingram
• Combining scientific and lay knowledges : participatory approaches to research in organic farming / F. Lyon and F. Harris
• Sustainable foodscapes? Examining consumer attitudes and practices towards food and farming in Washington State, USA / T. Selfa and R.A. Jussaume, Jr
• A notional ethical contract with farm animals in a sustainable global food system / B. Mepham
• Beasts of a different burden : agricultural sustainability and farm animals / H. Buller and C. Morris
• Agricultural biotechnology and ethics : for or against nature? / B.R. Johnson
• Multifunctionality in practice : research and application within a farm business / C. Stoate
• Linking environment and farming : integrated systems for sustainable farmland management / C. Drummond and C. Harris
• Environmental and profitable sustainability in agricultural production / A. Williams
• The use of indicators to assess the sustainability of farms converting to organic production / C. Firth, I. Milla and P. Harris
• Agri-environment schemes and sustainable farmland management : a farm level assessment of the economic costs and benefits / J. Jones
• International perspectives on sustainable farmland management / C. Potter
• The national policy dimension for environmentally sustainable agriculture : a UK perspective / G. Morgan and C. Reid
• Multifunctional agriculture and integrated rural development in Germany : the case of the Regional Action programme / K. Knickel and S. Peter
• Agendas for transdisciplinarity / R. Fish, S. Seymour, C. Watkins and M. Steven.