Agricultural Resilience (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from Ecology and Economics
Redaktion: Gardner, Sarah M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Agriculture as a social-ecological system embraces many disciplines. This book breaks through the silos of individual disciplines to bring ecologists and economists together to consider agriculture through the lens of resilience. It explores the economic, environmental and social uncertainties that influence the behaviour of agricultural producers and their subsequent farming approach, highlighting the importance of adaptability, innovation and capital reserves in enabling agriculture to persist under climate change and market volatility. The resilience concept and its relation to complexity theory is explained and the characteristics that foster resilience in agricultural systems, including the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services, are explored. The book discusses modelling tools, metrics and approaches for assessing agricultural resilience, highlighting areas where interdisciplinary thinking can enhance the development of resilience. It is suitable for those researching sustainable agriculture or those engaged in agricultural policy decisions and analysis, as well as students of ecology, agriculture and socioeconomics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108620185
• Artikelnr.: 56547702

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing resilience Sarah M. Gardner and Stephen J. Ramsden; Part I.
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Resilience in Agricultural Systems: 2.
Complexity and resilience in agriculture Sarah M. Gardner; 3. Biodiversity
and agriculture David Tilman; 4. Determining the value of ecosystem
services in agriculture Rosemary S. Hails, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Elena
Bennett, Brian Robinson, Gretchen Daily, Kate Brauman and Paul West; 5.
Resilience in agricultural systems Stephen J. Ramsden and James Gibbons; 6.
Building resilience into agricultural pollination using wild pollinators
Neal Williams, Rufus Isaacs, Eric Lonsdorf, Rachel Winfree and Taylor
Ricketts; 7. Conflicts and challenges to enhancing the resilience of
small-scale farmers in developing economies Richard Ewbank; 8. Modern
biotechnology and sustainable intensification: chances and limitations Rolf
Meyer; 9. Pastoralism, conservation and resilience: causes and consequences
of pastoralist household decision-making Katherine Homewood, Marcus
Rowcliffe, Jan De Leeuw, Mohamed Y. Said and Aidan Keane; Part II.
Integrating Biodiversity and Building Resilience into Agricultural Systems:
10. Delivering sustainability in agriculture: some implications for
analysis Ian Hodge; 11. The resilience of agricultural landscapes
characterised by land sparing versus land sharing Dave Abson, Kate Sherren
and Joern Fischer; 12. Ecological-economic modelling for designing
cost-effective incentives to conserve farmland biodiversity Martin
Drechsler and Frank Wätzold; 13. Viability analysis as an approach for
assessing the resilience of agroecosystems Sophie Martin; 14. Integrating
economics and resilience thinking: the context of natural resource
management in Australia Michael Harris, Graham Marshall and David Pannell;
15. Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into European
agricultural policy: a challenge for the common agricultural policy Allan
Buckwell; 16. Ecosystem-service based metrics of sustainability as tools
for promoting conservation and food security Jonathan R. B. Fisher and
Peter Kareiva; 17. Conclusions on agricultural resilience Sarah M. Gardner,
Stephen J. Ramsden and Rosemary S. Hails.