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Author(s): Stephen R. Gliessman
ISBN(s): 9781498715577, 1498715575
Edition: 2nd edition
File Details: PDF, 20.11 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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Author: Stephen R. Gliessman

Providing the theoretical and conceptual framework for this continually evolving field, Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems, Second Edition explores environmental factors and complexities affecting agricultural crops and animals. Completely revised, updated, and reworked, the second edition contains new data, new readings, new issues and case studies, and new options. It includes two completely new chapters, one on the role of livestock animals in agroecosystems and one on the cultural and community aspects of sustainable food systems.

The author clearly delineates the importance of using an ecosystem framework for determining if a particular agricultural practice, input, or management decision contributes or detracts from sustainability. He explains how the framework provides the ecological basis for the functioning of the chosen management strategy over the long-term. He also examines system level interactions, stressing the need for understanding the emergent qualities of populations, communities, and ecosystems and their roles in sustainable agriculture. Using examples of farming systems in a broad array of ecological conditions, the book demonstrates how to use an ecosystem approach to design and manage agroecosystems for sustainability.

Table of contents:

Section I. Introduction to Agroecology
Chapter 1: The Need for Sustainable Food Production Systems
Chapter 2: The Agroecosystem Concept

Section II. Plants and Environmental Factors
Chapter 3: The Plant
Chapter 4: Light
Chapter 5: Temperature
Chapter 6: Humidity and Rainfall
Chapter 7: Wind
Chapter 8: Soil
Chapter 9: Water in the Soil
Chapter 10: Fire
Chapter 11: Biotic Factors
Chapter 12: The Environmental Complex

Section III. System-Level Interactions
Chapter 13: The Population Ecology of Agroecosystems
Chapter 14: Genetic Resources in Agroecosystems
Chapter 15: Species Interactions in Crop Communities
Chapter 16: Agroecosystem Diversity and Stability
Chapter 17: Disturbance, Succession, and Agroecosystem Management
Chapter 18: The Energetics of Agroecosystems
Chapter 19: Animals in Agroecosystems

Section IV. The Transition to Sustainability
Chapter 20: Converting to Ecologically Based Management
Chapter 21: Indicators of Sustainability
Chapter 22: Landscape Diversity and Agroecosystem Management
Chapter 23: Culture, Community, and Sustainability
Chapter 24: From Sustainable Agroecosystems to Sustainable Food Systems

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