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OverviewThis is the first English-language text written by China's leading scientists documenting the history, principles, models and assessment of ecological agriculture in China and its integrated farming system. In twenty detailed chapters, the book covers all aspects of China's integrated farming system, including rotation, relay-intercropping and intercropping, polyaquaculture, mixed stands afforestation, agro-silviculture, intercropping for tree-medicinal herbs as well as cash and multiuse forests, phyto-animal systems, mountain ecosystems, wetland ecosystems, arid and semi-arid ecosystems, agro-industry complex ecological engineering, and multi-component and multi-step use of energy resources. The book's final chapters set forth a systematic design for an integrated farming system, instructions on analyzing and assessing integrated farming systems, and a perspective on recent trends, obstacles, and the future. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wenhua Li , Wenhua LiPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd Volume: v. 27 Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.885kg ISBN: 9781850706311ISBN 10: 185070631 Pages: 454 Publication Date: 15 June 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsIntroduction. Concept and principles of integrated farming system. Historical review. Classification of integrated farming system. Rotation, relay-intercropping and intercropping system of crops. Polyaquaculture in water body. Mixed standsafforestation. Agro-silviculture system. Tree-medicinal herbs intercropping. Cash tree/multiuse forest intercropping system. Integrated phyto-animal system. Integrated farming system in different scales. Integrated farming system in mountain ecosystem.Integrated farming system in wetland ecosystem. Integrated farming system in arid and semi-arid ecosystem. Agro-industry complex ecological engineering. Multi-component and multi-step use of energy resources. Systematic design for integrated farmingsystem. Analysis and assessment of integrated farming system. Perspective. Index.Reviewsbeautifully produced and well illustrated with very detailed reference lists. provides a plethora of detailed results, all fully illustrated by tables and figures. Furthermore, the methodologies involved provide in many cases an object lesson in the scienfific approach. - Professor Ewan Anderson, University of Durham, UK, in GeoJournal This volume, number 26 of the Man and the Biosphere Series, is a very welcome addition. All the authors are from mainland China and their expertise covers a wide area of this vast country. They bring together a large body of data on how China is tackling the problems of feeding her people using sustainable practices. Sins China encompasses most of the types of ecological and climatic zones found in the world, there is something in this book for everyone. Overall, this book has much to commend it to ecologists. All the systems described are approached from an ecological perspective. Access to so much information from sources not readily available in the west is extremely valuable. Perhaps most useful of all, in the current European climate of agricultural problems, is the extent to which lateral thinking has been applied in developing the very diverse systems described. An excellent read. - Bulletin of the Ecological Society, 2002 This book provides a unique overview of integrated agro-ecological farming systems in China, the world's most populous country. It reviews the principal stages in agricultural development in China from historical times to the recent challenges of the concept of 'sustainable' agriculture. The volume has been prepared by a multi-disciplinary group of Chinese scientists, scholars, and resource managers as a joint venture by theChinese Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Agriculture. It therefore brings together the research focus of the academic community and the practical experience of the agricultural community. However, perhaps the most interesting and encouraging aspect of this book is the extent to which the theory and practice of integrated farming systems have been developed since the late 1970s. the authors of this book recognise the need for collaborative programmes that will continue to develop the kinds of integrated farming systems that will provide China with a sustainable future. - The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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