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Landscape Agroecology
Engelsk
Bogcover for Landscape Agroecology af Paul Wojtkowski, 9781560222538
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
338
ISBN-13:
9781560222538
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1560222530
Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2003
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 21,3 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2003
Forfatter(e):

Landscape Agroecology

Engelsk
Paperback 2003
Format:

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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:
  • complementarity?usually defined in terms of plant-plant growth?expanded to include the rural countryside
  • desirable agroecosystems properties?what an agroecosystem needs in order to overcome landscape stresses such as drought, flooding, insect infestation, etc.
  • agrotechnologies?the classification of agroecosystems based on visual characteristics and the land-use problems addressed
  • cultural agroecology?what 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 motif?culturally 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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    Specifikationer
    Sprog:
    Engelsk
    Sider:
    338
    ISBN-13:
    9781560222538
    Indbinding:
    Paperback
    ISBN-10:
    1560222530
    Udg. Dato:
    12 dec 2003
    Størrelse i cm:
    15,2 x 21,3 x 2,1
    Oplagsdato:
    12 dec 2003
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