Overview
- Presents a multidisciplinary collection of original contributions made by the leading scholars and practitioners on researching, building, and maintaining sustainable agricultural systems
- Provides the first comprehensive overview focused on sustainability of agricultural systems from the perspectives of complex systems science
- Offers practical solutions to complex sustainability problems faced by agricultural systems
- Focuses on technologies, policies, and management systems enabling sustainable agricultural development?
- Is appealing to practitioners and policymakers working in agricultural economics, governance, and sustainability, not just academics
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS, volume 205)
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This book presents a multidisciplinary collection of original contributions made by the leading scholars and practitioners on researching, building, and maintaining sustainable agricultural systems. Being the first of its kind, the book is divided into two volumes. This book presents a comprehensive and informed review of the current state of multidisciplinary knowledge on sustainability in agriculture. The gaps in the scholarly literature are identified and rigorously analyzed, presenting a clear picture of the promising research directions. The authors critically analyze the very concept of sustainable agricultural systems, primarily focusing on the interactions existing between their integral components and with external environments. Relying on the provisions of complex systems science, the scholars then discuss the best approaches and methodologies used to build a comprehensive understanding of agricultural systems, with relation to achieving and maintaining their sustainability. More than that, this book holds two rich sections on (1) agricultural economics and (2) rural sustainability. Understanding sustainable development as a movement toward clearly defined and measurable goals, a set of chapters explore those policies, practices, technologies, and management systems that have an impact on the sustainability of agricultural systems. Agricultural sustainability is an urgent issue to be addressed, and this book makes a unique contribution. Due to its practical focus, the book appeals to practitioners and policymakers working in agricultural economics, governance, and sustainability, not just academics. This is also a valuable resource for graduate students interested in agricultural systems, sustainability, as well as complex systems theory and practice.
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Table of contents (102 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Defining and Researching Sustainable Agricultural Systems
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Challenge of Sustainability in Agricultural Systems
Book Subtitle: Volume 1
Editors: Aleksei V. Bogoviz
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73097-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73096-3Published: 03 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73097-0Published: 02 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2367-3370
Series E-ISSN: 2367-3389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 913
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Control and Systems Theory, Agriculture