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Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy (Journal of Sustainable Agriculture) (Journal of Sustainable Agriculture) by Richard K Olson; USA Environmental Protection Agency; Institute for Alternative Agriculture (USA) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Find an interdiscliplinary view of sustainable agriculture that emphasizes the potential contributions of ecology to agricultural sustainability in this groundbreaking book. Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy explores how ecological knowledge, applied as part of a multidisciplinary effort, can be used to design a sustainable and environmentally sound agriculture. A more ecologically based agriculture can increase production efficiency and decrease environmental impacts, but hard choices regarding population control, energy conservation, and land use must still be made. This interdisciplinary approach ensures that the results are beneficial to all components, for example, an ecologically based management scheme which bankrupts the farmer is not considered a viable option for sustainable agriculture. These thought-provoking chapters are an excellent introduction to the contributions of ecological principles to an environmentally sound sustainable agriculture.</p> <p>This multidisciplinary examination provides readers interested in agriculture with a valuable introduction to related work in other fields including ecology and economics. Agronomist

Author

Richard K Olson; USA Environmental Protection Agency; Institute for Alternative Agriculture (USA)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351437806

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, Economics