Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture

Author:   Pamela A. Matson ,  Walter Falcon ,  Ashley Dean ,  Rosamond Naylor
Publisher:   Island Press
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9781597265256


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   29 November 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Pamela A. Matson ,  Walter Falcon ,  Ashley Dean ,  Rosamond Naylor
Publisher:   Island Press
Imprint:   Shearwater Books,US
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781597265256


ISBN 10:   159726525
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   29 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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This book...provides ample evidence that moving towards sustainability requires the successful identification, assessment and management of risk and uncertainty...it is knowledge-intensive. -- Experimental Agriculture Matson has provided a pathway for use-inspired, place-based research grounded in the realities of a historically important region. The book is destined to become a classic and oft-cited resource in the growing sustainability science literature. -- Ecological Restoration [This book] tells the 'human-environment' story of agriculture in this valley between 1993 and 2008....The contributors/researchers try to understand not only the challenges to the people and ecosystems of the valley, but how to address those challenges. -- CHOICE Seeds of Sustainability would make a great book for introducing the ideals and complexity of sustainability to young scientists and curious citizens. -- Natural Areas Journal ...the substance is ripe for harvesting. -- Ecology ...cutting edge...rigorous...demonstrates both originality and critical reflectiveness...almost uniquely in our collective experience, it speaks seriously, frankly, and insightfully to the challenges of institutionalizing the sort of work it reports on. -- ESA Sustainability Science Award


This book...provides ample evidence that moving towards sustainability requires the successful identification, assessment and management of risk and uncertainty...it is knowledge-intensive. --Andrew Bennett Experimental Agriculture


Seeds of Sustainability would make a great book for introducing the ideals and complexity of sustainability to young scientists and curious citizens. --Natural Areas Journal This book...provides ample evidence that moving towards sustainability requires the successful identification, assessment and management of risk and uncertainty...it is knowledge-intensive. --Experimental Agriculture .. .the substance is ripe for harvesting. --Ecology .. .cutting edge...rigorous...demonstrates both originality and critical reflectiveness...almost uniquely in our collective experience, it speaks seriously, frankly, and insightfully to the challenges of institutionalizing the sort of work it reports on. --ESA Sustainability Science Award Matson has provided a pathway for use-inspired, place-based research grounded in the realities of a historically important region. The book is destined to become a classic and oft-cited resource in the growing sustainability science literature. --Ecological Restoration [This book] tells the 'human-environment' story of agriculture in this valley between 1993 and 2008....The contributors/researchers try to understand not only the challenges to the people and ecosystems of the valley, but how to address those challenges. --CHOICE


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Pamela Matson was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley at the beginning of the Yaqui Valley research project, and then moved to Stanford University, becoming the Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies and co-director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy in the Institute for International Studies; she is currently Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment.

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