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Sociology, Organic Farming, Climate Change and Soil Science Volume 3 || by Eric Lichtfouse (auth.), Eric Lichtfouse (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sourc

Who reads Sociology, Organic Farming, Climate Change and Soil Science Volume 3 ||?

Author

Eric Lichtfouse (auth.), Eric Lichtfouse (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Science + Business Media BV

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048133338

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Agriculture, Biology