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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

By Eric Lichtfouse

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews book

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
220
Release Date:
2015-07-23
Publication Date:
2015-07-23
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3319169874
ISBN13:
9783319169873
Weight:
500 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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