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Ethics and sustainable agriculture : bridging the ecological gaps / Fabio Caporali.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caporali, Fabio.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Ethics structure and goals
- The emergence of ecological awareness
- Development of ecological awareness
- The emergence of ecosystem theory
- The ecosystem concept
- The establishment of the ecosystem theory
- Research and education
- International policy and ecological economics
- Ethics of sustainable development
- Natural capital, ecosystem services and ecological footprint
- The role of education
- Agriculture and sustainable development
- Agroecosystem epistemology and ontology
- Energetics
- Matter cycling
- Biodiversity
- Sustainable agriculture
- Site-specificity and tradition
- Domestication and adaptation
- Terracing for ecosystem domestication
- Sustainable agriculture as a turning point of the human predicament
- Agroecology as a transdisciplinary field of cooperation
- Ecological intensification principles and practices
- Ecological intensification through planned biodiversity
- Ecological intensification: the role of hedgerows
- Valuing the performances of agroecosystem ecological intensification
- Institutional patterns of agriculture ecological intensification in Europe: the role of Universities
- Indicators of ecological intensification in contrasting farming systems
- Ecological intensification in animal husbandry
- Ecological intensification of human diet
- Ecological intensification in theology of creation and food ethics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 4, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9783030766832
- 3030766837
- Publisher Number:
- 99988910524
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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