Integrated assessment of health and sustainability of agroecosystems /
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作者： Thomas Gitau, Margaret W. Gitau, David Waltner-Toews.
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简介："Exploring the implementation of participatory, multistakeholder, and transdisciplinary ecosystem health research, Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems combines the latest theories in complexity and management with practical toolsand approaches for sustainable rural development research.Although the text focuses on smallholder farming communities in the central highlands of Kenya, the material discussed can be - and has been - effectively applied to agroecosystems in many other parts of the world." "After showing how the agroecosystem health framework was successfully adapted in a smallholder-dominated agroecosystem, the book integrates participatorymethods, systems analyses, pulse process models, and soft systems methods in an open-ended, adaptive R&D process. Itthen looks at how to use correspondence analysis to refinea research-based suite of indicators and analyze data obtained using indicators." "Incorporating the authors' pioneering work in the ecosystem health field, this book demonstrates the potential of the agroecosystem health paradigm as a framework in the decision-making processes of agricultural communities in a tropical highlands area."--BOOK JACKET.
