Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 14 - Agroecology and Global Change (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

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 sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 14
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Harry Ozier-Lafontaine • Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	511
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-06015-6
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Promotions
LSN:	3-319-06015-5
Barcode:	9783319060156

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