Learn how the principles and practices of landscape agroecology can
help to overcome drought, flooding, poor soil, damaging winds,
plant diseases, plant-eating insects, and more! Examining the
concepts, conventions, and components that underlie the ecology of
human-managed landscapes, this is the first book to address
landscape agroecology. Incorporating ideas from agroecology,
forestry, agronomy, agroforestry, landscape ecology, and
environmental science, Landscape Agroecology is a comprehensive
look at a cutting-edge topic. From the author: Farm or forestry
landscapes can be designed to address any number of objectives.
Commonly, the focus is entirely on production with few, if any,
secondary goals. These landscapes typically achieve their purpose
but are not entirely in harmony with nature. Landscape agroecology
offers the same potential for productivity, but also focuses on
sustainability and environmental friendliness as strong secondary
objectives. While the idea of formulating landscapes for specific
purposes is comparatively new, countless examples exist where
landscape modifications have been made to inhospitable areas in
order to overcome the natural obstacles that hamper crop growth.
This book illuminates the principles behind these triumphs,
bringing this local knowledge into the mainstream. Landscape
Agroecology will familiarize you with the concepts and terminology
needed to understand this exciting new field:
complementarityusually defined in terms of plant-plant
growthexpanded to include the rural countryside desirable
agroecosystems propertieswhat an agroecosystem needs in order to
overcome landscape stresses such as drought, flooding, insect
infestation, etc. agrotechnologiesthe classification of
agroecosystems based on visual characteristics and the land-use
problems addressed cultural agroecologywhat we can learn from the
superior land-use techniques of various societies and cultures, and
how these ideas can be brought into the mainstream cultural
motifculturally related land-use patterns that are openly
manifested in the landscape Essential for university/college
libraries and for research stations as well as professors and
students of agroecology, this book will be referred to again and
again. In addition to basic agroecological concepts, chapters in
this essential book address the management of wind, water, and
pests; biodiversity; physical and temporal patterns; principal,
auxiliary, and temporal agrotechnologies, and much more. For
professors and students in environmental science, this book offers
many previously un-dicussed alternatives for resolving the earth's
environmental dilemmas. Photographs, tables, figures, and
illustrations help make important points easy to access and
understand.
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