Integrated Resource Management
Agroforestry for Development
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Written to help bring agriculture's "Green Revolution" to the third world, Integrated Resource Management includes overviews of current agricultural production systems and their alternatives, demographics on mortality and population growth, soils, erosion, water availability, sustainable integrated agroforestry systems and behavioral adaptations.
Key Features
- Explains why a quality environment is essential for future agricultural and economic development
Demonstrates that integrated resource management leads to sustainable and productive agriculture for development - Shows that certain agroforestry techniques conserve soil, water, energy, and biological resources and at the same time increase food and fuel supplies
- Addresses the need for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and training to implement sound resource management policies and programs
Readership
Environmental scientists, ecologists, agricultural scientists, foresters, and crop scientists
Table of Contents
- Overview:
C.V. Kidd, Food Production.
P. Demeny, D. Meadows, and C.V. Kidd, Population Change: Global Trends and Future Implications.
Soil and Water Resources:
F. Troeh and D. Pimentel, Soil and Land.
E. Clark, D. Pimentel, and F. Troeh, Soil Erosion.
P. Riley, D. Pimentel, and C.V. Kidd, Water.
Productive Sustainable Systems: Agroforestry:
R. Winterbottom, Integrated Resource Management Systems--Definition and Assessment.
J. Gritzner and D. Pimentel, Examples, Case Studies, and Models.
P. Oram and D. Pimentel, Research Challenges: Ecosystems and Economics.
L. Fortmann, Social Aspects of Resource Management Systems.
E. Boulding, A Sociological Analysis of Alternative Agriculture.
Summary:
C.V. Kidd, Observations and Conclusions.
Appendix: Committee on Population, Resources, and the Environment.
Product details
- No. of pages: 223
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2012
- Published: March 30, 1992
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080924038
About the Editors
Charles Kidd
Affiliations and Expertise
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
David Pimental
Affiliations and Expertise
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
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