Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Farming With the Wild 375 innovations to solve human problems to sciences that engage in locally based con- versations with Natu ...

376 Ecological Restoration and Design grasses and sedges that line the canal banks are bushy, tall and luminous. Farther out, ab ...

Farming With the Wild 377 in the New Mexico–Arizona–Mexico Bootheel region – both as means of regener- ating the land. A few ran ...

378 Ecological Restoration and Design positive examples rather than problems, and we wanted to keep our standards rigorous. Two ...

Farming With the Wild 379 food, oil and fibre needs; a mere dozen account for 80 per cent of the modern world’s annual tonnage o ...

380 Ecological Restoration and Design Modern agriculture’s ecological footprint is drawn into particularly sharp focus by the is ...

Farming With the Wild 381 thousand miles away in the Gulf of Mexico, as a result of industrial corn and soy- bean production and ...

382 Ecological Restoration and Design broader culture. Henry David Thoreau’s On Walden Pond, John Muir’s Mountains of California ...

Farming With the Wild 383 the regulation of hydrological processes, erosion control, weed suppression and detoxification of chem ...

384 Ecological Restoration and Design farming and ranching regions. As one example, the Richmond, Vermont-based Wildlands Projec ...

Farming With the Wild 385 distant power centres, and farmers and ranchers, on the other, frequently perceived as narrow-minded a ...

386 Ecological Restoration and Design programmes, consumer-supported ecolabels and land trust collaborations, farm- ing at the l ...

Farming With the Wild 387 Platt-McGinn A. 1998. Blue Revolution: The promises and pitfalls of fish farming, World Watch March–Ap ...

Index Compiled by INDEXING SPECIALISTS (UK) Ltd AAD see agroecosystem analysis and development Abrams, David 302–3, 374 ACORN se ...

Index 389 benefits..., see also positive externalities Benyus, Janine 306 Berger, Hans 42 Berkes, F. 142, 148 Berry, Wendell 307 ...

390 Agriculture and the Environment commercial agriculture 363–4 see also corporate farming commercial fisheries 64 Common Agric ...

Index 391 development see agricultural development; community development; economic development diamond black moth 194–5 Diamond ...

392 Agriculture and the Environment environmental gender relations 235–8 environmental taxes 38 EPA, USA 67 equilibrium of agroe ...

Index 393 government action see policies grain crops 276–7 see also individual types Granovetter, M. 153 granular carbofuran 67 ...

394 Agriculture and the Environment inputs agroecosystems 123–4 feedback loop 24–5 high-input farming systems 363 intensificatio ...