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OverviewDuring the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, into an issue conciliating environmental, agricultural, and economic and social objectives. Placing agriculture in such a broadened perspective requires a different agronomy, with new tools and approaches at a range of aggregration levels. It calls for detailed knowledge concerning the functioning, productivity and ecological relationships of agricultural plants and crops. In addition, it calls for a constant update and synthesis of existing and newly generated knowledge, the design of new ideotypes and genotypes, new production technologies, cropping systems, farming systems and agro-ecological land use systems. This proceedings book presents a set of case studies illustrating the various agronomic tools that can be used for specific agronomic questions. The case studies are grouped in sections illustrating relevant subquestions in developing an agriculture with broadened objectives.The book starts with an introductory paper on the role of agronomy in research and education in Europe. The second section deals with agricultural land use, food security and environment. This is followed by a set of papers describing experimental research and modeling approaches used to design new ideotypes of crops, including physiological properties in relation to growth factors such as radiation, CO Full Product DetailsAuthor: M.K. van Ittersum (c/o Wageningen Agricultural University, Department of Theoretical Production Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands) , S.C. van de Geijn (c/o Research Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility (AB-DLO), Wageningen, The Netherlands)Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Imprint: Elsevier Science Ltd Volume: v. 25 Dimensions: Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 26.00cm Weight: 1.100kg ISBN: 9780444828521ISBN 10: 0444828524 Pages: 363 Publication Date: 11 December 1997 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Section 1: Introduction. Section 2: Agricultural Land Use, Food Security and Environment. Section 3: Crop Physiology and Ideotyping. Section 4: Managing Resource Use. Section 5: Designing Farming Systems. Author Index. Subject Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |