Sustainability : integrating agriculture, environment, and renewable energy for food security / Tofael Ahamed, Ryozo Noguchi, and Tomohiro Takigawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahamed, Tofael, author.

Noguchi, Ryozo, author.

Takigawa, Tomohiro, author.

Series:

Environmental science, engineering and technology series.

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Sustainable agriculture.

Renewable energy sources.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book has the ambition of presenting sustainability issues in a simple way to students in the field of agriculture and the environment. There is much diversity in the viewpoints on the meaning of sustainability. Sustainability must be made operational in each specific context and scaled, and appropriate methods must be designed to achieve long-term goals for the environment, agriculture, energy and food security. The ultimate goal of the environment and agriculture is protecting soil and water to ensure food security for the growing population. This book discusses the integration of views

Contents:

SUSTAINABILITY: INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR FOOD SECURITY; SUSTAINABILITY: INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR FOOD SECURITY; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Sustainability and Sustainable Development: A Sustainability Perspective on the Integration of Environment, Agriculture, and Bioenergy for Sustainable Development; 1.1. Measuring Sustainability and Sustainable Development Index; 1.2 Gross Environmental Sustainable Development Index (GESDI)

1.3. Sustainability in Agriculture1.4. Population and Agricultural Sustainability; 1.5. Natural Resources and Agricultural Sustainability; 1.6. Climatic Change and Agricultural Sustainability; 1.7. Sustainability and Renewable Energy; 1.8. Sustainability and Food Security; 1.9. Sustainability and Changes of Thinking; 1.10. Sustainability, Information and Communications Technology (ICT); Chapter 2: Sustainability Indicators: Reflective Practice and Multi-views of Sustainability for Ecological and Environmental Modeling; 2.1. Sustainability; 2.2. Scales of Sustainability; 2.3. System Quality

2.4. Application of Sustainability2.5. Roots of Sustainability; 2.6. Ecosystem Indicators; 2.7. Sustainability Indicators (SIs); 2.7.1. Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI); 2.7.2. Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY); 2.7.3. Sustainable Process Index; 2.7.4. Eco-Index Indicators; 2.7.5. Multi-Scale Sustainability Indicators; 2.8. Urban Sustainability; 2.9. Institutional Sustainability; 2.10. Process toward Achieving Sustainability; 2.11. Systems Thinking and Approaches; 2.11.1. Soft System Method (SSM); 2.11.2. The Learning Organization Approach (LO)

2.11.3. The Participatory Rural Appraisal Approach (PRA)2.11.4. The Logical Framework Approach (LF); Chapter 3: Sustainability and Ethics in Agricultural Production: Debate of Food Security, Biofuels and the Intergenerational Ethics of Biofuel Production; 3.1. Agriculture and Food Production System; 3.1.1. Soil Health; 3.1.2. Wastewater Quality; 3.1.3. Biodiversity; 3.1.4. Farm worker Education and Training; 3.2. Food vs. Biofuel Production; 3.3. World Food Production and Population; 3.4. Biofuel Production in the World; 3.5. World Food Prices; 3.6. The Impacts of Biofuels on Land Use

3.6.1. Land Use Change3.6.2. Impacts on the Environment; 3.7. Agricultural Expansion and Intensification; 3.7.1. Decreases in Biodiversity; 3.7.2. Agricultural Practices; 3.7.3. Agrochemicals; 3.8. Trade-off Solutions; 3.9. Intergenerational Ethics; 3.9.1. Forming Conditions of Intergenerational Ethics; 3.9.2. Environmental Recovery; Chapter 4: Sustainability and Food Security: Sustainability and its Global Environmental Impacts on Food Security; 4.1. The Food System; 4.2. Food Security; 4.2.1 The Dimensions of Food Security; 4.2.2 Food Insecurity; 4.2.3 Influences on Food Insecurity

4.3. Household Food Insecurity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63463-938-3