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

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 55 are pure conceptual constructs, that there is nothing real about t ...

56 Ethics and Systems Thinking through technical research, there are two broad paradigms for conceptualizing sus- tainability. T ...

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 57 nature and to future generations, and this discussion should be re ...

58 Ethics and Systems Thinking a number of groups interested in environment and social justice have assembled (Allen and Sachs, ...

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 59 within a specific decision making context to determine the paramet ...

60 Ethics and Systems Thinking states that we should choose practices that maximize total well-being or utility, and Bentham des ...

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 61 costs and benefits of different ways for producing food. The compa ...

62 Ethics and Systems Thinking Functional integrity, however, describes the mechanisms that allow whole systems, (such as human ...

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 63 decline over time, and those who advocate weak sustainability, tha ...

64 Ethics and Systems Thinking significance in an obvious way. Clearly, the only way that natural capital can be preserved consi ...

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 65 Conclusion Jamieson’s negative assessment of the philosophical ric ...

66 Ethics and Systems Thinking shows, contra Jamieson, that even if my approach to sustainability is motivation- ally weak, it i ...

Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 67 References Allen, Patricia and Carolyn Sachs. 1992. ‘The Poverty o ...

68 Ethics and Systems Thinking Thompson, Paul B. 1995. The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics. London, Rou ...

5 Learning and Mislearning Robert Chambers How we learn and mislearn about canal irrigation systems has not itself, to my knowle ...

70 Ethics and Systems Thinking irrigation intensity of 55 per cent as against 131 per cent proposed by the Govern- ment of Gujar ...

Learning and Mislearning 71 agriculture, and a sociologist. They noted that the World Bank-assisted programme in the command of ...

72 Ethics and Systems Thinking Groundwater Development and Management. Impact on Environment. Canal Scheduling and Water Course ...

Learning and Mislearning 73 The method included interviews with staff and farmers and detailed interdis- ciplinary field investi ...

74 Ethics and Systems Thinking Farmers’ knowledge of main system management and water supplies, and manager–farmer communicatio ...