Agroecology in action: extending alternative agriculture through social networks / Warner, K.D. (2007)

Public ISBD Titre : Agroecology in action: extending alternative agriculture through social networks Type de document : livre Auteurs : Warner, K.D. Editeur : Cambridge : The MIT Press Année de publication : 2007 Collection : Food, health, and the environment Importance : 273 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-262-73180-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Agricultural development  Agroecology  Environmental sciences  Social networks  Sustainable development Résumé : American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-source water pollution--runoffs of pesticides, nutrients, and sediments into streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. In Agroecology in Action, Keith Douglass Warner describes agroecology, an emerging scientific response to agriculture's environmental crises, and offers detailed case studies of ways in which growers, scientists, agricultural organizations, and public agencies have developed innovative, ecologically based techniques to reduce reliance on agrochemicals. Agroecology in Action shows that agroecology can be put into action effectively only when networks of farmers, scientists, and other stakeholders learn together. Farmers and scientists and their organizations must work collaboratively to share knowledge--whether it is derived from farm, laboratory, or marketplace. This sort of partnership, writes Warner, has emerged as the primary strategy for finding alternatives to conventional agrochemical use. Warner describes successful agroecological initiatives in California, Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin. California's vast and diverse specialty-crop agriculture has already produced 32 agricultural partnerships, and Warner pays particular attention to agroecological efforts in that state, including those under way in the pear, winegrape, and almond farming systems. The book shows how popular concern about the health and environmental impacts of pesticides has helped shape agricultural environmental policy, and how policy has in turn stimulated creative solutions from scientists, extension agents, and growers. Agroecology in action: extending alternative agriculture through social networks [livre] / Warner, K.D. . - Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2007 . - 273 p.. - (Food, health, and the environment) . ISBN : 978-0-262-73180-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Agricultural development  Agroecology  Environmental sciences  Social networks  Sustainable development Résumé : American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-source water pollution--runoffs of pesticides, nutrients, and sediments into streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. In Agroecology in Action, Keith Douglass Warner describes agroecology, an emerging scientific response to agriculture's environmental crises, and offers detailed case studies of ways in which growers, scientists, agricultural organizations, and public agencies have developed innovative, ecologically based techniques to reduce reliance on agrochemicals. Agroecology in Action shows that agroecology can be put into action effectively only when networks of farmers, scientists, and other stakeholders learn together. Farmers and scientists and their organizations must work collaboratively to share knowledge--whether it is derived from farm, laboratory, or marketplace. This sort of partnership, writes Warner, has emerged as the primary strategy for finding alternatives to conventional agrochemical use. Warner describes successful agroecological initiatives in California, Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin. California's vast and diverse specialty-crop agriculture has already produced 32 agricultural partnerships, and Warner pays particular attention to agroecological efforts in that state, including those under way in the pear, winegrape, and almond farming systems. The book shows how popular concern about the health and environmental impacts of pesticides has helped shape agricultural environmental policy, and how policy has in turn stimulated creative solutions from scientists, extension agents, and growers.

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68180	WAR_01_68180	Livre	Salle des périodiques Le Houérou	01_Agriculture	Disponible
69271	WAR_01_69271	Livre	Salle des périodiques Le Houérou	01_Agriculture	Sorti jusqu'au 25/05/2043

Sustainability or collapse: an integrated history and future of people on earth / Costanza, R.(Ed.) ; Graumlich, L.J.(Ed.) ; Steffen, W.(Ed.) (2007)

Public ISBD Titre : Sustainability or collapse: an integrated history and future of people on earth Type de document : livre Auteurs : Costanza, R.(Ed.) ; Graumlich, L.J.(Ed.) ; Steffen, W.(Ed.) Editeur : Cambridge : The MIT Press Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 495 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-262-03366-4 Note générale : Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 05/06/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Environmental impact analysis  Global change  Sustainability  Sustainable development Résumé : Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth. [Résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Hbk; Sustainability or collapse: an integrated history and future of people on earth [livre] / Costanza, R.(Ed.) ; Graumlich, L.J.(Ed.) ; Steffen, W.(Ed.) . - Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2007 . - 495 p. ISBN : 978-0-262-03366-4 Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 05/06/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Environmental impact analysis  Global change  Sustainability  Sustainable development Résumé : Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth. [Résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Hbk;

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68178	Cos_20_68178	Livre	Salle des ouvrages	20_Développement_durable	Disponible

The human impact on the natural environment / Goudie, A. (2000)

Public ISBD Titre : The human impact on the natural environment Type de document : livre Auteurs : Goudie, A. Mention d'édition : 05 éd. Editeur : Cambridge : The MIT Press Année de publication : 2000 Importance : 511 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-262-57138-8 Note générale : Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 27/05/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Animal  Atmosphere  Biodiversité  Climat  Eau  Géomorphologie  Impact sur l'environnement  Sol  Végétation Note de contenu : Pbk; The human impact on the natural environment [livre] / Goudie, A.  . -  05 éd. . - Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2000 . - 511 p. ISBN : 978-0-262-57138-8 Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 27/05/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Animal  Atmosphere  Biodiversité  Climat  Eau  Géomorphologie  Impact sur l'environnement  Sol  Végétation Note de contenu : Pbk;

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Code-barres	Cote	Support	Localisation	Section	Disponibilité
67202	Gou_15_67202	Livre	Salle des ouvrages	15_Ecologie_générale	Disponible

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