Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems
Application in the European Context
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book shows how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, and guides the reader through the process of selection. Includes case studies from Portugal, Canada, Argentina and Lebanon.
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This book shows how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, and guides the reader through the process of selection. Includes case studies from Portugal, Canada, Argentina and Lebanon.
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Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context. Case studies hail from polities as diverse as Portugal and Canada, Argentina and Lebanon. The work thus offers a valuable critical survey of the assessment methods that account for sustainability and economics, and which have developed considerably in the last two decades. The heterogeneous approaches covered here make this volume appropriate for consultation in a wide variety of social, political and geographical contexts. This urgent publication surveys the latest research and methodologies combining efficiency in agricultural food production with sustainability in the same systems. Growing pressures on food production seem contrapuntal tothe ever-stronger imperatives of sustainability. How can agriculture balance successes in both productivity and ecology? Sustainability is a dynamic concept, seeking to achieve a balance in space and time of environmental, economic and social factors. Thus, farming systems are faced with contradictory demands for success: economic performance and social equity have to be maximized, while the environment and its natural resources need to be protected.Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context. Case studies hail from polities as diverse as Portugal and Canada, Argentina and Lebanon. The work thus offers a valuable critical survey of the assessment methods that account for sustainability and
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economics, and which have developed considerably in the last two decades. The heterogeneous approaches covered here make this volume appropriate for consultation in a wide variety of social, political and geographical contexts.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems “
Acknowledgments Preface
1 The Needs for Building Sustainable Farming Systems:
Issues and Scope
Part I European Context for Sustainability Assessment
Of Farming Systems
2 Agricultural and Environmental Policies in the European Union
3 Approaches for Sustainable Farming Systems Assessment
Part II Multiple Aspects to Develop Methodologies for
Sustainability Assessment of Farming Systems
4 Normative, Systemic and Procedural Aspects: A Review of
Indicator-Based Sustainability Assessments in Agriculture
5 Assessing the Sustainability of Activity Systems to Support
Households' Farming Projects
6 Multilevel and Multi-User Sustainability Assessment of Farming
Systems
Part III Application of Methodologies for Sustainability
Assessment of Farming Systems in Real Contexts
7 Learning and Experimentation Strategy (LES). Outline of a
Method to Develop Sustainable Livestock Production Systems
8 Factors Affecting the Implementation of Measures for
Improving Sustainability on Farms Following the Rise
Sustainability Evaluation
9 A Multi-Attribute Decision Method for Assessing the Overall
Sustainability of Crop Protection Strategies: A Case Study
Based on Apple Production in Europe
Part IV Sustainability Assessment in Organic and Multifunctional
Systems
10 Are Organic Suckler Cattle Farming Systems More Sustainable
Than Conventional Systems? Productive, Environmental and
Economic Performances Assessments: A Model-Based Study
11 Assessing
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Multifunctionality in Relation to Resource Use - A
Holistic Approach to Measure Efficiency, Developed by
Participatory Research
12 Indicator-Based Method for Assessing Organic Farming
Sustainability
Part V Decision Support Methods for Sustainable Farming Systems
13 X-Farm: Modelling Sustainable Farming Systems
14 Ecological-Economic Modelling for Farming Systems Of
Montemuro Mountain (Portugal)
15 Evaluating Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability
of the Sheep Farming Activity in Greece: A Whole Farm
Mathematical Programming Approach
Part VI Sustainability Assessment in Non-European Farming Systems
16 Method for the Evaluation of Farm Sustainability in Quebec,
Canada: The Social Aspect
17 Adapting a European Sustainability Model to a Local Context in
Semi-Arid Areas of Lebanon
18 Tendency of Production Decisions of the Farmers of the Southeast Pampa Region in Argentina Under Uncertainty Conditions
Part VII Final Considerations
19 Methodologies for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: The Main Critical Points and Questions
16 Method for the Evaluation of Farm Sustainability in Quebec,
Canada: The Social Aspect
17 Adapting a European Sustainability Model to a Local Context in
Semi-Arid Areas of Lebanon
18 Tendency of Production Decisions of the Farmers of the Southeast Pampa Region in Argentina Under Uncertainty Conditions
Part VII Final Considerations
19 Methodologies for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: The Main Critical Points and Questions
16 Method for the Evaluation of Farm Sustainability in Quebec,
Canada: The Social Aspect
17 Adapting a European Sustainability Model to a Local Context in
Semi-Arid Areas of Lebanon
18 Tendency of Production Decisions of the Farmers of the Southeast Pampa Region in Argentina Under Uncertainty Conditions
Part VII Final Considerations
19 Methodologies for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: The Main Critical Points and Questions
Holistic Approach to Measure Efficiency, Developed by
Participatory Research
12 Indicator-Based Method for Assessing Organic Farming
Sustainability
Part V Decision Support Methods for Sustainable Farming Systems
13 X-Farm: Modelling Sustainable Farming Systems
14 Ecological-Economic Modelling for Farming Systems Of
Montemuro Mountain (Portugal)
15 Evaluating Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability
of the Sheep Farming Activity in Greece: A Whole Farm
Mathematical Programming Approach
Part VI Sustainability Assessment in Non-European Farming Systems
16 Method for the Evaluation of Farm Sustainability in Quebec,
Canada: The Social Aspect
17 Adapting a European Sustainability Model to a Local Context in
Semi-Arid Areas of Lebanon
18 Tendency of Production Decisions of the Farmers of the Southeast Pampa Region in Argentina Under Uncertainty Conditions
Part VII Final Considerations
19 Methodologies for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: The Main Critical Points and Questions
16 Method for the Evaluation of Farm Sustainability in Quebec,
Canada: The Social Aspect
17 Adapting a European Sustainability Model to a Local Context in
Semi-Arid Areas of Lebanon
18 Tendency of Production Decisions of the Farmers of the Southeast Pampa Region in Argentina Under Uncertainty Conditions
Part VII Final Considerations
19 Methodologies for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: The Main Critical Points and Questions
16 Method for the Evaluation of Farm Sustainability in Quebec,
Canada: The Social Aspect
17 Adapting a European Sustainability Model to a Local Context in
Semi-Arid Areas of Lebanon
18 Tendency of Production Decisions of the Farmers of the Southeast Pampa Region in Argentina Under Uncertainty Conditions
Part VII Final Considerations
19 Methodologies for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: The Main Critical Points and Questions
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2012, 2013, 280 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Marta-Costa, Ana Alexandra; L. D. G. Soares da Silva, Emiliana
- Herausgegeben: Emiliana L. D. G. Soares Da Silva, Ana Alexandra Marta-Costa
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9400750021
- ISBN-13: 9789400750029
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.10.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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