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

1 The Land Ethic A. Leopold When god-like Odysseus returned from the wars in Troy, he hanged all on one rope a dozen slave-girls ...

16 Ethics and Systems Thinking There is as yet no ethic dealing with man’s relation to land and to the animals and plants which ...

The Land Ethic 17 In the biotic community, a parallel situation exists. Abraham knew exactly what the land was for: it was to dr ...

18 Ethics and Systems Thinking This same landscape was ‘developed’ once before, but with quite different results. The Pueblo Ind ...

The Land Ethic 19 write your own rules for land use. Each county may write its own rules, and these will have the force of law. ...

20 Ethics and Systems Thinking One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members ...

The Land Ethic 21 In some instances, the assumed lack of profit in these ‘waste’ areas has proved to be wrong, but only after mo ...

22 Ethics and Systems Thinking only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in. The ...

The Land Ethic 23 The velocity and character of the upward flow of energy depend on the com- plex structure of the plant and ani ...

24 Ethics and Systems Thinking This thumbnail sketch of land as an energy circuit conveys three basic ideas: 1 That land is not ...

The Land Ethic 25 successful readjustment in the pyramid. Violence, in turn, varies with human pop- ulation density; a dense pop ...

26 Ethics and Systems Thinking pheasants and trout. Artificial propagation is acceptable as a permanent as well as a temporary r ...

The Land Ethic 27 The Outlook It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect and adm ...

28 Ethics and Systems Thinking I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so imp ...

2 Four Principles of Natural Farming Masanobu Fukuoka Make your way carefully through these fields. Dragonflies and moths fly up ...

30 Ethics and Systems Thinking The third is no weeding by tillage or herbicides. Weeds play their part in build- ing soil fertil ...

Four Principles of Natural Farming 31 earthworms and other small animals. Plant roots reach to the lower soil strata and draw th ...

32 Ethics and Systems Thinking If seeds are sown while the preceding crop is still ripening in the field, those seeds will germi ...

Four Principles of Natural Farming 33 cannot rejoice in the knowledge that immediate damage from the weevil has been reduced by ...

3 Knowing Systems and the Environment Richard Bawden Introduction The logic behind the ‘environmental concern’ is seemingly impe ...