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Today the goal of designing highly productive, sustainable agricultural production systems is at the forefront of agricultural research agendas around the world. This text argues the key to designing sustainable agricultural production technologies is in understanding their economic, environmental, and human health impacts. It presents a methodology designed to quantify such impacts and to represent them as tradeoffs. This tradeoff methodology is proposed as an approach to accomplish two elements in achieving agricultural sustainability. First, the tradeoffs method is a key to the design of successful interdisciplinary research projects for assessing sustainability of production systems. Second, the tradeoffs method provides a means of communicating research findings to policy makers and the public.

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Author:   C. Crissman ,  J.M. Antle ,  Susan M. Capalbo
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.370kg
ISBN:  

9780792380566

ISBN 10:   0792380568
Pages:   281
Publication Date:   30 November 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction and Overview.- Conceptual and Methodological Foundations.- 2 Tradeoffs in Policy Analysis: Conceptual Foundations and Disciplinary Integration.- 3 Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of Assessing Pesticide Environmental Impact in Developing Areas.- 4 Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of Investigating the Health Impacts of Agricultural Pesticide Use in Developing Countries.- An Introduction to Pesticide Policies in the Andean Region and to the Carchi Case Study Site.- 5 The Case Study Site: Physical, Health, and Potato Farming Systems in Carchi Province.- 6 Economic Reforms and Changing Pesticide Policies in Ecuador and Colombia.- Model Development and Analysis.- 7 Econometric and Simulation Modeling of the Carchi Potato Production System.- 8 Describing Pesticide Movement in Potato Production on Carchi Soils.- 9 Health Impacts of Pesticide Use in Carchi Farm Populations.- 10 The Role of Pesticides in Farm Productivity and Farmer Health.- 11 Integrated Simulation Model and Analysis of Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in the Carchi Potato-Pasture Production System.- About the Authors.- About the Mathematical Symbols Used in This Book.- Acronyms.

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