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Desarrollo rural, sustentabilidad y alternativas en dos ejidos del municipio de Balancán, Tabasco, México.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Rodríguez Barrios, Froylán Rafael.
En los ejidos de Leona Vicario y Constitución del municipio de Balancán, Tabasco se realizó el presente estudio que describe la dinámica y sinergias de los recursos y elementos productivos utilizados por los campesinos; determinando que los sistemas productivos funcionan como una estrategia integral de sobrevivencia de las unidades de producción, y que se han mantenido porque contienen rasgos de sustentabilidad que ha permitido que las actividades en su conjunto tengan ciertos equilibrios y capacidad de resiliencia. En esta perspectiva, los productores locales tienen en común la actividad forestal del aprovechamiento en pequeña escala del fruto de la palma de Tasiste, un recurso que cuenta con potencial de desarrollo para  la económica local, porque es una...
Palavras-chave: Economía Campesina; Unidad Doméstica Campesina; Sustentabilidad; Estrategia de Sobrevivencia; Rural Economy; Domestic Unit Farmer; Sustainability; Survival Strategy; Desarrollo Rural; Maestría.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/2211

Línea Base de criterios e indicadores sociales de sustentabilidad en una plantación forestal comercial en los límites de Oaxaca y Veracruz
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Hernández Martínez, Neftalí.
El desarrollo sustentable se encuentra en la etapa de pasar del discurso a la  operatividad en múltiples áreas de la ciencia, con el uso de metodologías que hacen  posible medir el impacto de los proyectos en el medio ambiente, economía y  sociedad. En el sector forestal de México, el desarrollo de Plantaciones Forestales  Comerciales (PFC) requiere inscribirse en la transición a la sustentabilidad  considerando Principios, Criterios e Indicadores (P, C e I) para su evaluación  constante.  En un estudio previó se determinó el conjunto especifico de P, C e I para un proyecto  de PFC que se ubica en los limites de Oaxaca y Veracruz. Considerando un total de  66 indicadores agrupados dentro de criterios y principios de sustentabilidad  ambiental, económica y...
Tipo: Tesis
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidad; Plantaciones Forestales Comerciales; Línea Base; Criterios e indicadores; Maestría; Desarrollo Rural; Sustainability; Commercial Forest Plantations; Baseline; Criteria and indicators.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/1298

Los medios de vida sostenibles de las familias productoras de cacao orgánico en el municipio de Cunduacán, Tabasco
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Martínez Arboleya, Héctor José.
Este trabajo estudió la sostenibilidad de los hogares productores de cacao orgánico.  Se utilizó el enfoque de Medios de Vida Sostenibles (MVS), el cual  establece una  tipología de los activos que los pobres utilizan para mantener su bienestar bajo  condiciones ambientales, sociales y económicas  cambiantes.   El objetivo fue identificar los medios de vida de las familias productoras de cacao  orgánico y conocer las principales estrategias utilizadas para su sostenibilidad. La  investigación se realizó en dos comunidades de Cunduacán, Tabasco. Se  combinaron métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos para: conocer los activos de los  productores de cacao orgánico certificado de la zona de estudio (28 productores, 14  hombres y 14 mujeres); distinguir los...
Tipo: Tesis
Palavras-chave: Medios de vida; Cacao; Tabasco; Sostenibilidad; Vulnerabilidad; Maestría; Producción Agroaliemtaria en el Trópico; Livelihoods; Tabasco; Cocoa; Sustainability; Vulnerability.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/1447

Indicadores físicos de un suelo bajo labranza de conservación y su relación con el rendimiento de tres cultivos.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Navarro Bravo, Agustín.
El manejo físico o laboreo del suelo se hace para crear condiciones óptimas en la zona de raíces de las plantas, a través de una adecuada estructura, porosidad, infiltración y retención de agua, entre otras, que son importantes para el manejo sustentable del recurso suelo. Para la identificación de indicadores físicos del suelo para la producción de cultivos, se utilizaron técnicas tradicionales y no destructivas de análisis tales como: la reflectometría de dominio del tiempo (TDR) y el penetrómetro de ultrasonido (PU) que garantizan la medición rápida de algunas propiedades físicas del suelo. Bajo este enfoque, se evaluó un agroecosistema de haba-maíz-frijol en rotación manejado con labranza de conservación, en el Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo,...
Palavras-chave: Estructura del suelo; Rendimiento de grano; Sostenibilidad; Grain yield; Soil structure; Sustainability; Doctorado; Edafología.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/60

Los medios de vida sostenibles de las familias productoras de caña de azúcar del municipio de Tenosique, Tabasco en un contexto de globalización.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Ortiz Palomeque, Germán.
Se estudió la sostenibilidad de los hogares de productores de caña de azúcar,  utilizando el marco de Medios de Vida Sostenibles (MVS). Se buscó identificar y  analizar los medios de vida de las familias además de conocer las principales  estrategias empleadas para su sostenibilidad en un contexto de globalización. El  trabajo de campo se realizó en el Ejido José María Pino Suárez, municipio de  Tenosique Tabasco. Se utilizaron métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos para conocer  los activos de 30 hogares; identificar los estratos socioeconómicos; conocer el  contexto de vulnerabilidad y las estrategias de recuperación de las familias. Los  principales elementos del contexto de vulnerabilidad detectados fueron: crisis de  liquidez, fenómenos meteorológicos,...
Tipo: Tesis
Palavras-chave: Caña de azúcar; Estrategias de medios de vida; Marco de medios de vida sostenibles; Sostenibilidad; Vulnerabilidad; Maestría; Producción Agroalimentaria en el Trópico; Livelihoods strategies; Sugar cane; Sustainable livelihoods framework; Sustainability; Vulnerability.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/1300

Respuesta productiva y calidad de la carne de corderos suplementados con nopal fresco y deshidratado.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Aguilar Yañez, María Isabel.
El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el efecto de suplementar con nopal fresco y deshidratado, en la respuesta productiva y calidad de la carne de corderos. Se dividió en dos etapas. La primera en la evaluación del comportamiento productivo, y la segunda, la evaluación de la calidad de la carne. Se utilizaron 27 corderos machos de cruzas comerciales, con peso inicial promedio de 21.4kg, distribuidos homogéneamente en tres grupos de 9 animales, y sacrificados a peso promedio de 37 kg. Los grupos fueron asignados al azar a cada uno de los siguientes tratamientos: (T1) dieta testigo, (T2) dieta con 17 % (base seca) de nopal deshidratado, y (T3) dieta con 17 % (base seca) de nopal fresco. En la primera etapa, se evaluó la digestibilidad in situ de la...
Palavras-chave: Nopal; Sustentabilidad; Carne; Canal; Calidad; Cactus; Sustainability; Meat; Carcass; Quality; Maestría; Ganadería.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/255

Análisis de las unidades de riego con aprovechamiento superficial en la Cuenca Lerma Chapala, México.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: González Covarrubias, Galdino Daniel.
En el presente estudio se realizó el análisis de las Unidades de Riego con aprovechamiento superficial en la Cuenca Lerma Chapala, México, a través de la georrefenciación y caracterización de la infraestructura hidroagrícola, padrón de usuarios y catastro, integrándolos en un Modelo de Sistema de Información Geográfica (SIG). Esto permitió conocer en forma precisa la información relevante de dichas Unidades. Se caracterizaron 1,364 unidades de riego con un total de 56,266 usuarios que detentan 114,975.26 hectáreas. La longitud de la red de conducción es de 2,435 km y la longitud de la red de drenaje es de 2,643 km, y 34,965 estructuras de control.  La integración de las capas de información generadas en formato shape-file (*.shp) al Modelo de SIG de la...
Palavras-chave: Modelación; SIG; Riego; Agua; Sustentabilidad; Cuenca; Modeling; GIS; Irrigation; Water; Sustainability; Watershed; Hidrociencias; Maestría Tecnológica.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/2072

Los medios de vida de la comunidad rural Las Lomas de Tacojalpa, Minatitlán Veracruz.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Gallegos Luría, Jorge Rogelio.
La pobreza es uno de los problemas que incide en muchas comunidades rurales de México. Las Lomas de Tacojalpa en Minatitlán, Ver., no escapa a esta situación. A nivel mundial una metodología empleada es la de Medios de Vida Sostenibles (MVS). Esta investigación utilizo el marco de MVS  para analizar los medios de vida y estrategias empleadas para hacer frente a la pobreza en que se encuentran inmersos los hogares de la comunidad rural de Las Lomas. El objetivo fue analizar el contexto de vulnerabilidad y la forma en que lo enfrentan los hogares de la comunidad e identificar la fortalezas de los activos o capitales; humano, social, natural, físico y financiero a los que tienen acceso. Se utilizaron métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos  para recabar la...
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidad; Pobreza; Vulnerabilidad; Capitales; Estrategias; Sustainable livelihoods; Sustainability; Poverty; Vulnerability; Capitals; Strategies; Development; Producción Agroalimentaria en el Trópico; Maestría; Medios de vida sostenibles.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/765

Impacto socioeconómico de las microfinanzas en el desarrollo rural desde la sustentabilidad y la institucionalidad en el Municipio del Cuá, 2010.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: José Espinoza, Edward.
El impacto socioeconómico de las microfinanzas en el desarrollo rural se presenta como una alternativa en el combate a la pobreza y desigualdades sociales del campo rural, por lo general excluidos de los servicios financieros clásicos. El objetivo de la investigación fue analizar el impacto socioeconómico que ejercen las microfinanzas en el desarrollo rural desde la sustentabilidad e institucionalidad en cinco comunidades del municipio del Cuá-Bocay, Nicaragua. Se utilizó el muestreo conglomerado de dos etapas, obteniendo 63 unidades muéstrales distribuidas según el tamaño de de las comunidades. Se estudiaron 6 variables: microfinanzas rurales, transformaciones territoriales rurales e institucionales, sustentabilidad del sistema de producción, desempeño...
Palavras-chave: Desarrollo rural; Institucionalidad; Microfinanzas; Sustentabilidad; Rural development; Institutionality; Microfinance; Sustainability; EDAR; Desarrollo Rural Territorial Sustentable CP-UNAN; Maestría Tecnológica.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/522

Programa de adecuación de derechos de uso de agua y redimensionamiento del Distrito de Riego 004 Don Martín en los estados de Coahuila y Nuevo León.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: López Andrade, José Amador.
El Distrito de Riego 004 Don Martín, se localiza en los Municipios de Juárez, en Coahuila y Anáhuac, en Nuevo León, siendo uno de los más antiguos del país. Mediante un Decreto Presidencial de 1941, publicado en 1945, se limitó la superficie física del distrito a 39,820 ha, de las cuales sólo 29,605 ha eran de riego. De acuerdo con el padrón de usuarios actualizado en el año 2001, se reconocen oficialmente un total de 29,615.5 ha de riego. La superficie regada, en promedio en 75 años, es de 14,381 hectáreas, lo que indica un índice de aprovechamiento de superficie regada de 48%. La sequía prolongada que duró de 1995 a 2005 ocasionó que únicamente se regara en tres de los diez años agrícolas comprendidos en dicho período. En respuesta a problemas que...
Palavras-chave: Distritos de Riego; Redimensionamiento; Derechos de agua; Sustentabilidad; Irrigation District; Resizing; Water Rights; Sustainability; Hidrociencias; Maestría Tecnológica.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/2252

Los medios de vida sostenibles de las familias productoras de cacao orgánico en el municipio de Cunduacán, Tabasco
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Martínez Arboleya, Héctor José.
Este trabajo estudió la sostenibilidad de los hogares productores de cacao orgánico.  Se utilizó el enfoque de Medios de Vida Sostenibles (MVS), el cual  establece una  tipología de los activos que los pobres utilizan para mantener su bienestar bajo  condiciones ambientales, sociales y económicas  cambiantes.   El objetivo fue identificar los medios de vida de las familias productoras de cacao  orgánico y conocer las principales estrategias utilizadas para su sostenibilidad. La  investigación se realizó en dos comunidades de Cunduacán, Tabasco. Se  combinaron métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos para: conocer los activos de los  productores de cacao orgánico certificado de la zona de estudio (28 productores, 14  hombres y 14 mujeres); distinguir los...
Tipo: Tesis
Palavras-chave: Medios de vida; Cacao; Tabasco; Sostenibilidad; Vulnerabilidad Livelihoods; Tabasco; Cocoa; Sustainability; Vulnerability.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/1099

Factores asociados a la sustentabilidad de agroecosistemas de agave azul (Agave tequilana weber) en la sierra de Amula, Jalisco: propuesta metodológica para su medición.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Moreno Hernández, Arturo.
El principal objetivo de esta investigación fue conocer el grado de sustentabilidad de los agroecosistemas de agave azul en la región Sierra de Amula, Jalisco; así como, los factores (variables) que lo determinaron. Se generó un indicador compuesto llamado Índice General de Sustentabilidad del Agroecosistema (IGSA), identificando cuatro relaciones principales  (producción, protección, presión y preservación) de las cuales se evaluaron 12 variables analíticas (producción, diversidad productiva, intervención institucional, manejo agronómico, integración al mercado, intensidad de uso del suelo, intensidad de uso de insumos, inversión inicial, recuperación del capital inicial, uso de mano de obra, continuidad y conocimiento del agroecosistema), a través de 27...
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidad; Agroecosistemas; Agave tequilana; Tequila; Jalisco; Sustainability; Agroecosystem; EDAR; Doctorado; Estrategias para el Desarrollo Agrícola Regional.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/285

Sustentabilidad para el desarrollo rural en el Municipio de Compostela, Nayarit, México: un enfoque de sistemas complejos.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: González Acuña, Irma Julieta.
Esta investigación con enfoque de sistemas complejos, tuvo como objetivo identificar pautas de inestabilidad en los agroecosistemas y el nivel de sustentabilidad para el desarrollo rural. Se entrevistaron agricultores (n = 163) y representantes del Consejo Municipal de Desarrollo Sustentable local (n = 14). Se hicieron mapas digitales con datos de análisis de suelo (n = 4017) e indicadores diversos obtenidos con metodologías mixtas. El nivel de vida racional (0.61 ± 0.11) se asoció (P ≤0.05) con rendimiento, eficiencia energética y deterioro del suelo por deforestación. Se identificaron sociedades moderadamente estables (0.83 ± 0.4) relacionadas con cohesión social (P ≤0.05). La diversidad en los agroecosistemas (0.54 ± 0.16) se asoció a superficie (r =...
Palavras-chave: Sistemas complejos; Sustentabilidad; Metabolismo socioeconómico y ecológico; Huella ecológica; Autoorganización; Complex systems; Sustainability; Socioeconomic and ecologic metabolism; Ecological footprint; Self-organization; Doctorado; Agroecosistemas Tropicales.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/434

Innovación tecnológica en la producción de jitomate (Lycopersicon esculentum) en invernadero por productores de milpa tradicional en Santo Domingo Teojomulco y San Jacinto Tlacotepec, Oaxaca.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Ortíz Jiménez, Bersaín.
La tesis comprende el estudio de unidades familiares que producen jitomate en invernadero y realizan actividades productivas de autoconsumo como lo es la milpa. Se realiza el análisis del grado de adopción de innovación tecnológica en la producción de jitomate en invernadero y los flujos de conocimiento sobre tecnología entre los productores; también se analiza la productividad y sustentabilidad de los sistemas agrícolas de la unidad familiar. El índice de adopción (InAI), se obtiene a través del análisis de variables latente de los componentes tecnológicos, comparando el antes y después del proceso del método de las escuelas de campo para la difusión de tecnología; con el método de redes sociales se observa el flujo de conocimiento y relaciones de cada...
Palavras-chave: Adopción de innovación tecnológica; Redes sociales; Sistemas agrícolas; Productividad; Sustentabilidad; Estudios del Desarrollo Rural; Doctorado; Adoption of technological innovation; Social networks; Agricultural systems; Productivity; Sustainability.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/1787

Impacto socioeconómico de las microfinanzas en el desarrollo rural desde la sustentabilidad y la institucionalidad en el Municipio del Cuá, 2010.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: José Espinoza, Edward.
El impacto socioeconómico de las microfinanzas en el desarrollo rural se presenta como una alternativa en el combate a la pobreza y desigualdades sociales del campo rural, por lo general excluidos de los servicios financieros clásicos. El objetivo de la investigación fue analizar el impacto socioeconómico que ejercen las microfinanzas en el desarrollo rural desde la sustentabilidad e institucionalidad en cinco comunidades del municipio del Cuá-Bocay, Nicaragua. Se utilizó el muestreo conglomerado de dos etapas, obteniendo 63 unidades muéstrales distribuidas según el tamaño de de las comunidades. Se estudiaron 6 variables: microfinanzas rurales, transformaciones territoriales rurales e institucionales, sustentabilidad del sistema de producción, desempeño...
Palavras-chave: Desarrollo rural; Institucionalidad; Microfinanzas; Sustentabilidad; Rural development; Institutionality; Microfinance; Sustainability; EDAR; Desarrollo Rural Territorial Sustentable CP-UNAN; Maestría Tecnológica.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/522

Los medios de vida sostenibles de las familias productoras de caña de azúcar del municipio de Tenosique Tabasco en un contexto de globalización
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Ortiz Palomeque, Germán.
Se estudió la sostenibilidad de los hogares de productores de caña de azúcar, utilizando el marco de Medios de Vida Sostenibles (MVS). Se buscó identificar y analizar los medios de vida de las familias además de conocer las principales estrategias empleadas para su sostenibilidad en un contexto de globalización. El trabajo de campo se realizó en el Ejido José María Pino Suárez, municipio de Tenosique Tabasco. Se utilizaron métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos para conocer los activos de 30 hogares; identificar los estratos socioeconómicos; conocer el contexto de vulnerabilidad y las estrategias de recuperación de las familias. Los principales elementos del contexto de vulnerabilidad detectados fueron: crisis de liquidez, fenómenos meteorológicos, plagas y...
Tipo: Tesis
Palavras-chave: Caña de azúcar; Estrategias de medios de vida; Marco de medios de vida sostenibles; Sostenibilidad; Vulnerabilidad; Maestría; Producción Agroalimentaria en el Trópico; Livelihoods strategies; Sugar cane; Sustainable livelihoods framework; Sustainability; Vulnerability.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/1634

Indicadores físicos de un suelo bajo labranza de conservación y su relación con el rendimiento de tres cultivos.
Provedor de dados: 32
Autores: Navarro Bravo, Agustín.
El manejo físico o laboreo del suelo se hace para crear condiciones óptimas en la zona de raíces de las plantas, a través de una adecuada estructura, porosidad, infiltración y retención de agua, entre otras, que son importantes para el manejo sustentable del recurso suelo. Para la identificación de indicadores físicos del suelo para la producción de cultivos, se utilizaron técnicas tradicionales y no destructivas de análisis tales como: la reflectometría de dominio del tiempo (TDR) y el penetrómetro de ultrasonido (PU) que garantizan la medición rápida de algunas propiedades físicas del suelo. Bajo este enfoque, se evaluó un agroecosistema de haba-maíz-frijol en rotación manejado con labranza de conservación, en el Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo,...
Palavras-chave: Estructura del suelo; Rendimiento de grano; Sostenibilidad; Grain yield; Soil structure; Sustainability; Doctorado; Edafología.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/60

Sustainable livelihoods through conservation of wetland resources: a case of economic benefits from Ghodaghodi Lake, western Nepal
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lamsal, Pramod; ; pramod_lamsal@yahoo.com; Pant, Krishna Prasad; Kathmandu University; Krishna.Pant@ku.edu.np; Kumar, Lalit; University of New England; lkumar@une.edu.au; Atreya, Kishor; Kathmandu University; k.atreya@gmail.com.
We investigated the participation of local ethnic groups in wetland conservation, determined the economic benefits that they received from the wetlands, and assessed socioeconomic factors that affect dependency on wetlands. A total of 217 wetland resource-user households residing around Ghodaghodi Lake, western Nepal were surveyed. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-tests and ordinary least squares regressions. The wetland resources contributed significantly to the household economy of the local people. Each household extracted lake resources at an annual worth of NPR 4379 ($63 USD), equivalent to 12.4% of the household total gross income. Although the people maintained a positive attitude toward wetland conservation, their participation in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Conservation attitude; Conservation participation; Livelihood; Sustainability; Wetland conservation.
Ano: 2015

An integrated framework for sustainable development goals
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Griggs, David; Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University; dave.griggs@monash.edu; Stafford Smith, Mark; CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship; mark.staffordsmith@csiro.au; Gaffney, Owen; International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme; owen.gaffney@igbp.kva.se; Glaser, Gisbert; International Council for Science; gisbert.glaser@icsu.org; Kanie, Norichika; Tokyo Institute of Technology; United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies; kanie@valdes.titech.ac.jp; Noble, Ian; Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index; Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University; iannoble@me.com; Steffen, Will; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; will.steffen@anu.edu.au; Shyamsundar, Priya; South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics; priyas@sandeeonline.org.
The United Nations (UN) Rio+20 summit committed nations to develop a set of universal sustainable development goals (SDGs) to build on the millennium development goals (MDGs) set to expire in 2015. Research now indicates that humanity&amp;#8217;s impact on Earth&amp;#8217;s life support system is so great that further global environmental change risks undermining long-term prosperity and poverty eradication goals. Socioeconomic development and global sustainability are often posed as being in conflict because of trade-offs between a growing world population, as well as higher standards of living, and managing the effects of production and consumption on the global environment. We have established a framework for an evidence-based architecture for new goals...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Development; Environment; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Sustainable development goals.
Ano: 2014

Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Anderies, John M; Arizona State University; m.anderies@asu.edu; Folke, Carl; Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics; Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University; carl.folke@beijer.kva.se; Walker, Brian; CSIRO Ecosystem Science; Brian.Walker@csiro.au; Ostrom, Elinor; Indiana University; ostrom@indiana.edu.
Globalization, the process by which local social-ecological systems (SESs) are becoming linked in a global network, presents policy scientists and practitioners with unique and difficult challenges. Although local SESs can be extremely complex, when they become more tightly linked in the global system, complexity increases very rapidly as multi-scale and multi-level processes become more important. Here, we argue that addressing these multi-scale and multi-level challenges requires a collection of theories and models. We suggest that the conceptual domains of sustainability, resilience, and robustness provide a sufficiently rich collection of theories and models, but overlapping definitions and confusion about how these conceptual domains articulate with...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Fragility; Global change; Governance; Institutions; Resilience; Robustness; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013

The Most Resilient Show on Earth: The Circus as a Model for Viewing Identity, Change, and Chaos
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Loring, Philip A; University of Alaska, Fairbanks; ftpal@uaf.edu.
Resilience, adaptability, and transformability are all tightly linked to the notion of change, whether in respect to coping with, adapting to, or harnessing it. But in order to understand these forces of change, we first need to recognize its counterpart: identity. Identity of a social-ecological system is not merely a static set of quantifiable feedbacks or indicators, but a more qualitative characterization of what results from the overlap of the social and the ecological. To fully articulate these ideas, I turn to a unique and enduring phenomenon: the traveling circus. Through the many forms they have taken over the last 150 yr, circuses have changed significantly while sustaining a singular identity. As a successful and enduring social system, their...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Circus; Panarchy; Resilience; Sustainability; Tribe; Tribalism.
Ano: 2007

Operationalizing the integrated landscape approach in practice
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Freeman, Olivia E; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); o.freeman@cgiar.org; Duguma, Lalisa A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); L.A.Duguma@cgiar.org; Minang, Peter A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); A.Minang@cgiar.org.
The terms &amp;#8220;landscape&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;landscape approach&amp;#8221; have been increasingly applied within the international environmental realm, with many international organizations and nongovernmental organizations using landscapes as an area of focus for addressing multiple objectives, usually related to both environmental and social goals. However, despite a wealth of literature on landscapes and landscape approaches, ideas relating to landscape approaches are diverse and often vague, resulting in ambiguous use of the terms. Our aim, therefore, was to examine some of the main characteristics of different landscape approaches, focusing on how these might be applied in the process of taking a landscape approach. Drawing on a review of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Complex social-ecological systems; Integrated landscape approach; Multifunctionality; Participation; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity.
Ano: 2015

Analyzing the Concept of Planetary Boundaries from a Strategic Sustainability Perspective: How Does Humanity Avoid Tipping the Planet?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Basile, George; Arizona State University; george.basile@asu.edu.
Recently, an approach for global sustainability, the planetary-boundary approach (PBA), has been proposed, which combines the concept of tipping points with global-scale sustainability indicators. The PBA could represent a significant step forward in monitoring and managing known and suspected global sustainability criteria. However, as the authors of the PBA describe, the approach faces numerous and fundamental challenges that must be addressed, including successful identification of key global sustainability metrics and their tipping points, as well as the coordination of systemic individual and institutional actions that are required to address the sustainability challenges highlighted. We apply a previously published framework for systematic and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Framework for strategic sustainable development; Planetary boundaries; Planning; Strategy; Sustainability; Tipping points.
Ano: 2013

Transformation from &amp;#8220;Carbon Valley&amp;#8221; to a &amp;#8220;Post-Carbon Society&amp;#8221; in a Climate Change Hot Spot: the Coalfields of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Evans, Geoffrey R.; University of Newcastle (Australia), Ecosystem Health Research Group; Geoffrey.r.evans@bigpond.com.
This paper examines the possibilities for transformation of a climate-change hot spot&amp;#8212;the coal-producing Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia&amp;#8212;using complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory. It uses CAS theory to understand the role of coal in the region&amp;#8217;s history and efforts to strengthen the ecological, economic, and social resilience of the region&amp;#8217;s coal industry in the face of demands for a shift from fossil fuel dependency to clean, renewable energy and genuine resilience and sustainability. It uses CAS theory to understand ways in which the resilience of two alternative futures, labeled &amp;#8220;Carbon Valley&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;Post-Carbon Society&amp;#8221; (Heinberg 2004), might evolve.   The...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Climate change; Coal; Complex adaptive systems; Hunter Valley  Australia; Panarchy; Resilience; Sustainability; Transition.
Ano: 2008

Catalyst: reimagining sustainability with and through fine art
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Connelly, Angela; Manchester Architecture Research Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK ; angela.connelly-2@manchester.ac.uk; Guy, Simon C; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK ; s.guy@lancaster.ac.uk; Wainwright, Dr. Edward; School of Architecture, Planning &amp; Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK ; edward.wainwright@ncl.ac.uk; Weileder, Wolfgang; Fine Art, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK ; wolfgang.weileder@ncl.ac.uk; Wilde, Marianne; Fine Art, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK    ; marianne.wilde@ncl.ac.uk.
How might we begin to explore the concept of the &amp;#8220;sustainable city&amp;#8221; in a world often characterized as dynamic, fluid, and contested? Debates about the sustainable city are too often dominated by a technological discourse conducted among professional experts, but this technocratic framing is open to challenge. For some critics, sustainability is a meaningless notion, yet for others its semantic pliability opens up discursive spaces through which to explore interconnections across time, space, and scale. Thus, while enacting sustainability in policy and practice is an arduous task, we can productively ask how cultural imaginations might be stirred and shaken to make sustainability accessible to a wider public who might join the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Coproduction; Interdisciplinarity; Practice-led research; Sustainability; Urban.
Ano: 2016

Coupled human and natural system dynamics as key to the sustainability of Lake Victoria&amp;#8217;s ecosystem services
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Downing, Andrea S.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen  University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands ; andrea.downing@su.se; van Nes, Egbert H.; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen  University, Netherlands ; Egbert.vannes@wur.nl; Balirwa, John S.; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; jbalirwa@yahoo.com; Beuving, Joost; Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Faculty of   Social Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands ; joostbeuving@gmail.com; Bwathondi, P.O.J.; University of Dar es Salaam, College of Natural and Applied Sciences,   Department of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ; bwathondi@yahoo.co.uk; Chapman, Lauren J.; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; lauren.chapman@mcgill.ca; Cornelissen, Ilse J. M.; Aquaculture &amp; Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; ilsecornelissen@hotmail.com; Cowx, Iain G.; Hull International Fisheries Institute, University of Hull, United Kingdom; I.G.Cowx@hull.ac.uk; Goudswaard, Kees P. C.; Institute for Marine Resource and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Wageningen University, Yerseke, Netherlands; kees.goudswaard@wur.nl; Hecky, Robert E.; Biology Department and Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA; rehecky@gmail.com; Janse, Jan H.; Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Bilthoven, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; JH.Janse@rivm.nl; Janssen, Annette B. G.; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen  University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; A.Janssen@nioo.knaw.nl; Kaufman, Les; Boston University Marine Program, Biology Department, Boston University, USA ; lesk@bu.edu; Kishe-Machumu, Mary A.; Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; mkishe@yahoo.com; Kolding, Jeppe; Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway; jeppe.kolding@bio.uib.no; Ligtvoet, Willem; Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), The Hague, Netherlands; Willem.Ligtvoet@pbl.nl; Mbabazi, Dismas; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; mbabazidismas@yahoo.com; Medard, Modesta; Department of Sociology of Development and Change. Social Science Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands ; modesta.medard@wur.nl; Mkumbo, Oliva C.; Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation, Jinja, Uganda; ocmkumbo@lvfo.org; Mlaponi, Enock; Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), Mwanza, Tanzania; emlaponi@yahoo.com; Munyaho, Antony T.; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; ataabum@yahoo.com; Nagelkerke, Leopold A. J.; Aquaculture &amp; Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; leo.nagelkerke@wur.nl; Ogutu-Ohwayo, Richard; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; ogutuohwayo@yahoo.com; Ojwang, William O.; Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kisumu, Kenya; w_ojwang@yahoo.com; Peter, Happy K.; Aquaculture &amp; Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Happy.Peter@wur.nl; Schindler, Daniel E.; Aquatic &amp; Fishery Sciences/Department of Biology, University of Washington, USA; deschind@uw.edu; Seehausen, Ole; Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland; Ole.Seehausen@eawag.ch; Sharpe, Diana; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; diana.sharpe@gmail.com; Silsbe, Greg M.; Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, Netherlands; Greg.Silsbe@nioz.nl; Sitoki, Lewis; The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya; Sitoki@hotmail.com; Tumwebaze, Rhoda; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; t60rhoda@gmail.com; Tweddle, Denis; South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa; D.Tweddle@saiab.ac.za; van de Wolfshaar, Karen E.; Institute for Marine Resource and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Wageningen University, Ijmuiden, Netherlands; karen.vandewolfshaar@wur.nl; van Dijk, Han; Department of Sociology of Development and Change. Social Science Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands ; han.vandijk@wur.nl; van Donk, Ellen; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; E.vandonk@nioo.knaw.nl; van Rijssel, Jacco C.; Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, Netherlands; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands; Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland; j.c.van.rijssel@biology.leidenuniv.nl; van Zwieten, Paul A. M.; Aquaculture &amp; Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; paul.vanzwieten@wur.nl; Wanink, Jan; Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, Netherlands; Koeman en Bijkerk bv, Ecological Research and Consultancy, Haren, Netherlands; j.h.wanink@koemanenbijkerk.nl; Witte, F.; Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, Netherlands; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands;; Mooij, Wolf M.; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen  University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands ; w.mooij@nioo.knaw.nl.
East Africa&amp;#8217;s Lake Victoria provides resources and services to millions of people on the lake&amp;#8217;s shores and abroad. In particular, the lake&amp;#8217;s fisheries are an important source of protein, employment, and international economic connections for the whole region. Nonetheless, stock dynamics are poorly understood and currently unpredictable. Furthermore, fishery dynamics are intricately connected to other supporting services of the lake as well as to lakeshore societies and economies. Much research has been carried out piecemeal on different aspects of Lake Victoria&amp;#8217;s system; e.g., societies, biodiversity, fisheries, and eutrophication. However, to disentangle drivers and dynamics of change in this complex system, we need...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Eutrophication; Feedbacks; Fisheries; Lake Victoria; Model; Multidisciplinary  social-ecological system; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014

Progress Toward Sustainable Mussel Aquaculture in Mar Piccolo, Italy
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Caroppo, Carmela; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Taranto (Italy); carmela.caroppo@iamc.cnr.it; Giordano, Laura; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Naples (Italy); laura.giordano@iamc.cnr.it; Palmieri, Nadia; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Naples (Italy);; Bellio, Giovanna; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Taranto (Italy); giovannabellio@libero.it; Bisci, Antonio Paride; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Taranto (Italy); paride.bisci@iamc.cnr.it; Portacci, Giuseppe; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Taranto (Italy);; Sclafani, Patricia; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Naples (Italy); patricia.sclafani@iamc.cnr.it; Hopkins, Tom Sawyer; National Research Council - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment  (CNR - IAMC), Naples (Italy);.
Mar Piccolo of Taranto is an estuarine basin heavily exploited for commercial mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis L.) farming.  The historical renown of the Taranto mussels has suffered over the last decade following policy decisions to expand the mussel farms and to relocate a portion of the urban sewage to an outfall outside of Mar Piccolo.  The resulting decline in mussel quality and the quandary of how to restore stability to Taranto mussel production became the focal issue for our application of the systems approach framework (SAF).  We simulated the ecological, economic, and social interactions that affect mussel production.  Stakeholders and mussel farmers contributed by participating in meetings during the entire exercise.  Our simulation analysis...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Bioeconomical modeling; Carrying capacity; Estuarine ecosystem simulation; Mar Piccolo; Stakeholder involvement; Sustainability.
Ano: 2012

Combining Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Monitoring Populations for Co-Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Moller, Henrik; University of Otago; henrik.moller@stonebow.otago.ac.nz; Berkes, Fikret; University of Manitoba; berkes@cc.umanitoba.ca; Lyver, Philip O'Brian; University of Otago; LyverP@landcareresearch.co.nz; Kislalioglu, Mina; University of Manitoba; mberkes@mts.net.
Using a combination of traditional ecological knowledge and science to monitor populations can greatly assist co-management for sustainable customary wildlife harvests by indigenous peoples. Case studies from Canada and New Zealand emphasize that, although traditional monitoring methods may often be imprecise and qualitative, they are nevertheless valuable because they are based on observations over long time periods, incorporate large sample sizes, are inexpensive, invite the participation of harvesters as researchers, and sometimes incorporate subtle multivariate cross checks for environmental change. A few simple rules suggested by traditional knowledge may produce good management outcomes consistent with fuzzy logic thinking. Science can sometimes...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Catch per unit effort; Community-based conservation; Customary harvesting; Indigenous people; Population monitoring; Sustainability; New Zealand; Canada.
Ano: 2004

Evaluating Today's Landscape Multifunctionality and Providing an Alternative Future: A Normative Scenario Approach
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Waldhardt, Rainer; Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen; rainer.waldhardt@umwelt.uni-giessen.de; Bach, Martin; Resources Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Breuer, Lutz; Resources Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Frede, Hans-Georg; Resources Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Ginzler, Oliver; Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Gottschalk, Thomas; Animal Ecology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Julich, Stefan; Resources Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Krumpholz, Matthias; Agribusiness Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Kuhlmann, Friedrich; Agribusiness Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Otte, Annette; Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Reger, Birgit; Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Reiher, Wolfgang; Resources Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Schmitz, Kim; Agricultural and Development Policy, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Schmitz, P. Michael; Agricultural and Development Policy, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Sheridan, Patrick; Agribusiness Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Simmering, Dietmar; Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Weist, Cornelia; Biometry and Population Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;; Wolters, Volkmar; Animal Ecology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen;.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Ecosystem services; Germany; Modeling; Sustainability.
Ano: 2010

Sustainability Learning in Natural Resource Use and Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Modelling social-ecological systems; Social learning; Sustainability.
Ano: 2007

Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Leach, Melissa; STEPS Centre, University of Sussex; m.leach@ids.ac.uk; Raskin, Paul; Tellus Institute, Boston;; Scoones, Ian; STEPS Centre, University of Sussex; i.scoones@ids.ac.uk; Stirling, Andy C; STEPS Centre, University of Sussex; a.c.stirling@sussex.ac.uk; Smith, Adrian; STEPS Centre, University of Sussex; a.g.smith@sussex.ac.uk; Thompson, John; ; j.thompson@ids.ac.uk; Millstone, Erik; ; e.p.millstone@sussex.ac.uk; Ely, Adrian; ; a.v.ely@sussex.ac.uk; Arond, Elisa; ;; Folke, Carl; ; carl.folke@beijer.kva.se; Olsson, Per; ; per.olsson@stockholmresilience.su.se.
The urgency of charting pathways to sustainability that keep human societies within a "safe operating space" has now been clarified. Crises in climate, food, biodiversity, and energy are already playing out across local and global scales and are set to increase as we approach critical thresholds. Drawing together recent work from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Tellus Institute, and the STEPS Centre, this commentary article argues that ambitious Sustainable Development Goals are now required along with major transformation, not only in policies and technologies, but in modes of innovation themselves, to meet them. As examples of dryland agriculture in East Africa and rural energy in Latin America illustrate, such "transformative innovation" needs to...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Development goals; Grassroots; Planetary boundaries; Sustainable innovation; Sustainability.
Ano: 2012

Biblical Influences on  Conservation:  an Examination of the Apparent Sustainability of Kosher Seafood
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Levin, Phillip S.; NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; phil.levin@noaa.gov; Azose, Joel; NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Conservation Biology Division;; Anderson, Sean; Environmental Science and Resource Management Program, California State University Channel Islands; sean.anderson@csuci.edu.
As a response to widespread concern about the state of marine ecosystems and the perceived failure of existing policies, many organizations are developing market-based instruments that promote sustainability. Eco-standards such as shopping guides, eco-labels, and stewardship certifications are now commonplace. However, in many cultures dietary guidelines have existed for thousands of years, and anthropologists have argued that such dietary rules emerged to reduce environmental impacts by encouraging exploitation of productive species, increasing ecological efficiency, or decreasing harvest of apex predators. We explored some of the environmental consequences for marine and aquatic systems of one of the more familiar ancient dietary traditions, keeping...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Carbon footprint; Conservation; Eco-label; Kosher; Marine conservation; Religion; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014

Bridging the Gap Between Economics and Ecology
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Leefers, Larry; Michigan State University; leefers@pilot.msu.edu; Castillo, Gem; Michigan State University; Castil16@pilot.msu.edu.
Economics and ecology are often presented as opposing disciplines. Both fields have strengths and weaknesses. A new transdisciplinary field, ecological economics, attempts to bring together the strengths of both disciplines with a vision for a sustainable future. In this paper, we focus on one particular concept championed by ecological economists, natural capital. In particular, our interest is on the institutionalization of this concept through the United Nation's Satellite System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA). SEEA is an international convention that incorporates natural resource accounting as a complement to the traditional System of National Accounts (SNA). In the case of boreal forests, the stocks and flows of forest...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Boreal forest; Circumpolar resources; Degradation; Depletion; Ecological economics; Michigan; Natural capital; Natural resources accounting; SEEA; Sustainability; United Nations Environment Programme; World Bank.
Ano: 1998

Ex Ante Scale Dynamics Analysis in the Policy Debate on Sustainable Biofuels in Mozambique
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Schut, Marc; Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre; marc.schut@wur.nl; Leeuwis, Cees; Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre; cees.leeuwis@wur.nl; Paassen, Annemarie van; Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre; annemarie.vanpaassen@wur.nl.
In this paper, we explore how ex ante scale dynamics analysis can contribute to better understanding of interactions between scales and levels, and how these interactions influence solution space in policy processes. In so doing, we address opportunities and challenges of conducting ex ante scale dynamics analysis as part of an action-oriented social science research approach that seeks to enhance its contribution to more scale-sensitive policy development. The policy debate on sustainable biofuels in Mozambique provides the empirical context in which we analyze interactions across administrative, institutional, and economic scales and levels, and how these interactions influence the space in which policy solutions can be explored and designed.  On the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Action-oriented research; Biofuels; Ex ante scale dynamics analysis; Mozambique; Policy processes; Scale and level; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013

Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and Latin America
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Mwangi, Esther; Center for International Forestry Research; e.mwangi@cgiar.org; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; International Food Policy Research Institute; r.meinzen-dick@cgiar.org; Sun, Yan; International Food Policy Research Institute; y.sun@cgiar.org.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Forest management; Gender; Sustainability; User groups.
Ano: 2011

Urban water sustainability: framework and application
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Yang, Wu; Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, China; wyang@zju.edu.cn; Hyndman, David W.; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, USA; hyndman@msu.edu; Winkler, Julie A.; Department of Geography, Michigan State University, USA; winkler@msu.edu; Deines, Jillian M.; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, USA; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, USA; jillian.deines@gmail.com; Lupi, Frank; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, USA; Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, USA; lupi@msu.edu; Luo, Lifeng; Department of Geography, Michigan State University, USA; lluo@msu.edu; Li, Yunkai; Department of Hydraulic Engineering, China Agriculture University, China; liyunkai@126.com; Basso, Bruno; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, USA; basso@msu.edu; Zheng, Chunmiao; School of Environmental Science and Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China, China; Center for Water Research, College of Engineering, Peking University, China; Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, USA; czheng@pku.edu.cn; Ma, Dongchun; Beijing Water Science and Technology Institute, China; State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; mdc@bwsti.com; Li, Shuxin; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, USA; lishu@msu.edu; Liu, Xiao; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, USA; liuxia32@msu.edu; Zheng, Hua; State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; zhenghua@rcees.ac.cn; Cao, Guoliang; Center for Water Research, College of Engineering, Peking University, China; gliang.cao@gmail.com; Meng, Qingyi; Beijing Water Science and Technology Institute, China; mqy@bwsti.com; Ouyang, Zhiyun; State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; zyouyang@rcees.ac.cn; Liu, Jianguo; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, USA; liuji@msu.edu.
Urban areas such as megacities (those with populations greater than 10 million) are hotspots of global water use and thus face intense water management challenges. Urban areas are influenced by local interactions between human and natural systems and interact with distant systems through flows of water, food, energy, people, information, and capital. However, analyses of water sustainability and the management of water flows in urban areas are often fragmented. There is a strong need to apply integrated frameworks to systematically analyze urban water dynamics and factors that influence these dynamics. We apply the framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) to analyze urban water issues, using Beijing as a...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Environmental governance; Megacity; Spillover effects; Sustainability; Systems approach; Telecoupling; Virtual water; Water management.
Ano: 2016

Ex Ante Impact Assessment of Policies Affecting Land Use, Part A: Analytical Framework
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Helming, Katharina; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); khelming@zalf.de; Diehl, Katharina; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); diehl@zalf.de; Bach, Hanne; Department of Policy Analysis NERI; hba@dmu.dk; Dilly, Oliver; School of Integrated Climate System Services, University of Hamburg; oliver.dilly@uni-hamburg.de; Kuhlman, Tom; Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI); tom.kuhlman@wur.nl; Sieber, Stefan; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); stefan.sieber@zalf.de; Tabbush, Paul; ; paul.tabbush@virgin.net; Tscherning, Karen; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); tscherning@zalf.de; Wascher, Dirk; Alterra WUR; dirk.wascher@wur.nl; Wiggering, Hubert; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); wiggering@zalf.de.
Contemporary policy making calls for scientific support to anticipate the possible consequences of optional policy decisions on sustainable development. This paper presents an analytical framework for ex ante assessment of economic, social, and environmental impacts of policy driven land use changes that can be used as an aid to policy making. The tasks were to (1) link policy scenarios with land use change simulations, (2) link land use change simulations with environmental, social, and economic impacts through indicators, and (3) valuate the impacts in the context of sustainable development. The outcome was a basis for dialogue at the science-policy interface in the process of developing new policies on the European level that impact on land and land...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Analytical framework; Discussion tools; DPSIR-framework; Ex ante impact assessment; Land use change; Model-based tools; Participatory assessment tools; Policy development; Sustainability.
Ano: 2011

A multilevel evolutionary framework for sustainability analysis
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Waring, Timothy M; Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and School of Economics, University of Maine; timothy.waring@maine.edu; Kline, Michelle Ann; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; Institute for Human Origins, Arizona State University; michelle.ann.kline@gmail.com; Brooks, Jeremy S; School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University; brooks.719@osu.edu; Goff, Sandra H; School of Economics, University of Maine; Economics Department, Skidmore College; sgoff@skidmore.edu; Gowdy, John; Department of Economics and Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; gowdyj@rpi.edu; Janssen, Marco A; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; marco.janssen@asu.edu; Smaldino, Paul E; Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis; paul.smaldino@gmail.com; Jacquet, Jennifer; Department of Environmental Studies, New York University; jj84@nyu.edu.
Sustainability theory can help achieve desirable social-ecological states by generalizing lessons across contexts and improving the design of sustainability interventions. To accomplish these goals, we argue that theory in sustainability science must (1) explain the emergence and persistence of social-ecological states, (2) account for endogenous cultural change, (3) incorporate cooperation dynamics, and (4) address the complexities of multilevel social-ecological interactions. We suggest that cultural evolutionary theory broadly, and cultural multilevel selection in particular, can improve on these fronts. We outline a multilevel evolutionary framework for describing social-ecological change and detail how multilevel cooperative dynamics can determine...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Cooperation; Cultural evolution; Multilevel selection; Sustainability; Theory.
Ano: 2015

Ex Ante Impact Assessment of Policies Affecting Land Use, Part B: Application of the Analytical Framework
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Helming, Katharina; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); khelming@zalf.de; Diehl, Katharina; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); diehl@zalf.de; Kuhlman, Tom; Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI); tom.kuhlman@wur.nl; Verburg, Peter H.; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam; Peter.Verburg@ivm.vu.nl; Bakker, Martha; Alterra WUR; Martha.bakker@wur.nl; Perez-Soba, Marta; Alterra WUR; marta.perezsoba@wur.nl; Jones, Laurence; Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Bangor; lj@ceh.ac.uk; Verkerk, Pieter Johannes; European Forest Institute (EFI); Hans.verkerk@efi.int; Tabbush, Paul; ; paul.tabbush@virgin.net; Morris, Jake Breton; Forest Research; jake.morris@forestry.gsi.gov.uk; Drillet, Zuzana; University of Aberdeen; Z.imrichova@abdn.ac.uk; Farrington, John; University of Aberdeen; j.farrington@abdn.ac.uk; Stuczynski, Tomasz; Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation; ts@iung.pulawy.pl; Siebielec, Grzegorz; Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation; gs@iung.pulawy.pl; Sieber, Stefan; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); stefan.sieber@zalf.de; Wiggering, Hubert; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); wiggering@zalf.de.
The use of science-based tools for impact assessment has increasingly gained focus in addressing the complexity of interactions between environment, society, and economy. For integrated assessment of policies affecting land use, an analytical framework was developed. The aim of our work was to apply the analytical framework for specific scenario cases and in combination with quantitative and qualitative application methods. The analytical framework was tested for two cases involving the ex ante impact assessment of: (1) a European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) financial reform scenario employing a modeling approach and combined with a comprehensive indicator analysis and valuation; and (2) a regional bioenergy policy scenario, employing a fully...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Analytical framework; Discussion tools; DPSIR framework; Ex ante impact assessment; Land-use change; Model-based tools; Participatory assessment tools; Policy development; Sustainability.
Ano: 2011

Information and entropy theory for the sustainability of coupled human and natural systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Mayer, Audrey L.; Michigan Technological University; almayer@mtu.edu; Donovan, Richard P.; University of California at Irvine; rpdonova@uci.edu; Pawlowski, Christopher W.; AECOM; cw_pawlowski@yahoo.com.
For coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), sustainability can be defined operationally as a feasible, desirable set of flows (material, currency, information, energy, individuals, etc.) that can be maintained despite internal changes and changes in the environment. Sustainable development can be defined as the process by which CHANS can be moved toward sustainability. Specific indicators that give insight into the structure and behavior of feedbacks in CHANS are of particular interest because they would aid in the sustainable management of these systems through an understanding of the structures that govern system behavior. However, the use of specific feedbacks as monitoring tools is rare, possibly because of uncertainties regarding the nature of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: CHANS; Feedbacks; Information theory; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014

Double coupling: modeling subjectivity and asymmetric organization in social-ecological systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Manuel-Navarrete, David; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; davidmn@asu.edu.
Social-ecological organization is a multidimensional phenomenon that combines material and symbolic processes. However, the coupling between social and ecological subsystem is often conceptualized as purely material, thus reducing the symbolic dimension to its behavioral and actionable expressions. In this paper I conceptualize social-ecological systems as doubly coupled. On the one hand, material expressions of socio-cultural processes affect and are affected by ecological dynamics. On the other hand, coupled social-ecological material dynamics are concurrently coupled with subjective dynamics via coding, decoding, personal experience, and human agency. This second coupling operates across two organizationally heterogeneous dimensions: material and...
Tipo: NON-REFEREED
Palavras-chave: Congruence; Conscious power; Coupled nature-human systems; Social-ecological organization; Subjectivity; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015

Planetary Boundaries:  Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Steffen, Will; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Australian National University, Australia; will.steffen@anu.edu.au; Noone, Kevin; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University; kevin.noone@stockholmresilience.su.se; Chapin, F. Stuart III; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks; fschapiniii@alaska.edu; Lambin, Eric; Department of Geography, University of Louvain; lambin@geog.ucl.ac.be; Lenton, Timothy M; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia; t.lenton@uea.ac.uk; Scheffer, Marten; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University; Marten.Scheffer@wur.nl; Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; carl.folke@beijer.kva.se; Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Environmental Change Institute and Tyndall Centre, Oxford University ; schellnhuber@pik-potsdam.de; de Wit, Cynthia A; Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University; cynthia.de.wit@itm.su.se; Hughes, Terry; ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; terry.hughes@jcu.edu.au; van der Leeuw, Sander; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; vanderle@asu.edu; Rodhe, Henning; Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University; rodhe@misu.su.se; Snyder, Peter K; Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota; pksnyder@umn.edu; Costanza, Robert; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont; rcostanz@uvm.edu; Svedin, Uno; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; uno.svedin@formas.se; Falkenmark, Malin; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Stockholm International Water Institute; malin.falkenmark@siwi.org; Karlberg, Louise; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Stockholm Environment Institute; louise.karlberg@stockholmresilience.su.se; Corell, Robert W; The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment ; Corell@heinzctr.org; Fabry, Victoria J; Department of Biological Sciences, California State University San Marcos; fabry@csusm.edu; Hansen, James; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; James.E.Hansen@nasa.gov; Walker, Brian; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems; Brian.Walker@csiro.au; Liverman, Diana; Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment; Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona ; diana.liverman@eci.ox.ac.uk; Richardson, Katherine; Earth System Science Centre, University of Copenhagen; kari@science.ku.dk; Crutzen, Paul; Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; air@mpch-mainz.mpg.de; Foley, Jonathan; Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota; jfoley@umn.edu.
Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global sustainability in which we define planetary boundaries within which we expect that humanity can operate safely. Transgressing one or more planetary boundaries may be deleterious or even catastrophic due to the risk of crossing thresholds that will trigger non-linear, abrupt environmental change within continental- to planetary-scale systems.   We have identified nine planetary boundaries and, drawing upon current scientific understanding, we propose quantifications for seven of them. These seven are climate change (CO2 concentration in the atmosphere &amp;#60;350 ppm and/or a maximum change...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Atmospheric aerosol loading; Biogeochemical nitrogen cycle; Biological diversity; Chemical pollution; Climate change; Earth; Global freshwater use; Land system change; Ocean acidification; Phosphorus cycle; Planetary boundaries; Stratospheric ozone; Sustainability.
Ano: 2009

Can Resilience be Reconciled with Globalization and the Increasingly Complex Conditions of Resource Degradation in Asian Coastal Regions?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Armitage, Derek; Wilfrid Laurier University; darmitag@wlu.ca; Johnson, Derek; Centre for Maritime Research; dsjohnson@marecentre.nl.
This paper explores the relationship between resilience and globalization. We are concerned, most importantly, with whether resilience is a suitable conceptual framework for natural resource management in the context of the rapid changes and disruptions that globalization causes in social-ecological systems. Although theoretical in scope, we ground this analysis using our experiences in two Asian coastal areas: Junagadh District in Gujarat State, India and Banawa Selatan, in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. We present the histories of resource exploitation in the two areas, and we attempt to combine a resilience perspective with close attention to the impact of globalization. Our efforts serve as a basis from which to examine the conceptual and practical...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Globalization; Resilience; Complexity; India; Indonesia; Resource management; Coastal management; Social-ecological system; Sustainability.
Ano: 2006

Understanding sustainable seafood consumption behavior: an examination of the Ocean Wise (OW) initiative in British Columbia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dolmage, Katherine M.; Coastal and Marine Management, University Centre of the Westfjords; katherine.dolmage@gmail.com; Macfarlane, Victoria; Global Studies, Vancouver Island University (VIU); Director of Belize Institute for Local Development (BILD); victoria.l.macfarlane@gmail.com; Alley, Jamie; Coastal and Marine Management, University Centre of the Westfjords; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; jamiealley@shaw.ca.
Sustainable seafood labeling programs have been developed as one of several efforts to address the current dire trends in fish stocks. The Ocean Wise (OW) program, started at the Vancouver Aquarium (Canada), works with restaurateurs and suppliers to simplify sustainable purchasing decisions. By aiding restaurateurs with responsible purchasing, OW hopes to shift demand to sustainable seafood products. OW has grown in numbers and spread across Canada quickly; we examine the factors associated with individual and organizational decisions to participate in the program, including personal, business, and program-related factors. These factors were examined in relation to OW membership by Vancouver restaurateurs. Results show that restaurateurs with greater...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: BC; British Columbia; Consumer behavior; Ocean Wise; OW; Restaurant; Seafood; Sustainability.
Ano: 2016

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Liu, Jianguo; Michigan State University, USA; liuji@msu.edu; Hull, Vanessa; Michigan State University, USA; hullvane@csis.msu.edu; Batistella, Mateus; EMBRAPA Satellite Monitoring, Campinas, SP, Brazil; mb@cnpm.embrapa.br; DeFries, Ruth; Columbia University, USA; rd2402@columbia.edu; Dietz, Thomas; Michigan State University, USA; tdietz@msu.edu; Fu, Feng; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; fufengenergy@gmail.com; Hertel, Thomas W.; Purdue University, USA; hertel@purdue.edu; Izaurralde, R. Cesar; University of Maryland, USA; cesar.izaurralde@pnnl.gov; Lambin, Eric F.; Stanford University, USA; elambin@stanford.edu; Li, Shuxin; Michigan State University, USA; lishu@msu.edu; McConnell, William J.; Michigan State University, USA; mcconn64@msu.edu; Moran, Emilio F.; Michigan State University, USA; moranef@msu.edu; Naylor, Rosamond; Stanford University, USA; Roz@stanford.edu; Ouyang, Zhiyun; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; zyouyang@rcees.ac.cn; Polenske, Karen R.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; krp@mit.edu; Reenberg, Anette; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Ar@geogr.ku.dk; Simmons, Cynthia S.; Michigan State University, USA; simmo108@msu.edu; Verburg, Peter H.; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; Peter.Verburg@ivm.vu.nl; Vitousek, Peter M.; Stanford University, USA; vitousek@leland.stanford.edu; Zhang, Fusuo; China Agricultural University, Beijing, China; zhangfs@cau.edu.cn; Zhu, Chunquan; International Union for Conservation of Nature, China; caomu1963@126.com.
Interactions between distant places are increasingly widespread and influential, often leading to unexpected outcomes with profound implications for sustainability. Numerous sustainability studies have been conducted within a particular place with little attention to the impacts of distant interactions on sustainability in multiple places. Although distant forces have been studied, they are usually treated as exogenous variables and feedbacks have rarely been considered. To understand and integrate various distant interactions better, we propose an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances. The concept of telecoupling is a logical extension of research on...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Agents; Causes; Coupled human-environment systems; Coupled human and natural systems; Coupled social-ecological systems; Dispersal; Distant interactions; Effects; Feedbacks; Flows; Globalization; Investment; Knowledge transfer; Migration; Socioeconomic and environmental interactions; Species invasion; Sustainability; Technology transfer; Teleconnection; Telecoupling; Trade; Transnational land deals; Water transfer.
Ano: 2013

REDD+ for the poor or the poor for REDD+? About the limitations of environmental policies in the Amazon and the potential of achieving environmental goals through pro-poor policies
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pokorny, Benno; University of Freiburg; benno.pokorny@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de.
Once again, the international community focuses on the preservation of Amazonian forests, in particular through a bundle of initiatives grouped under the term of REDD+. Initially focusing on reducing carbon emissions, the REDD+ process became increasingly linked with developmental goals that represent the primary interest of all Amazon countries. In consequence, REDD+ can be seen as another attempt to achieve the twin goals of environmental protection and rural development, and consequently, relies on the strategies and tools of past efforts. Against this background, we explore past experiences with key strategies for environmental protection and poverty alleviation in the Amazon to critically reflect about the potential of REDD+ to contribute to...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Development Policies; Forest Management; Poverty Alleviation; REDD+; Rural Development; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013

Communicating Ecology Through Art: What Scientists Think
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Curtis, David J; University of New England; irf@une.edu.au; Reid, Nick; University of New England; nrei3@une.edu.au; Ballard, Guy; University of New England; guy.ballard@industry.nsw.gov.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Art and environment; Arts and society; Environmental behavior; Music; Performance; Scientific communication; Social effects of the arts; Sustainability.
Ano: 2012

A framework for analyzing, comparing, and diagnosing social-ecological systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bots, Pieter W. G.; Delft University of Technology; p.w.g.bots@tudelft.nl; Sendzimir, Jan; International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); sendzim@iiasa.ac.at.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Framework development; Governance system; Resource system; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015

Ecological Sustainability of Birds in Boreal Forests
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Niemi, Gerald; University of Minnesota; gniemi@d.umn.edu; Hanowski, JoAnn; University of Minnesota; jhanowsk@sage.nrri.umn.edu; Helle, Pekka; Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute; meltausrta@HELSINKI.RKTL.fi; Howe, Robert; University of Wisconsin; hower@uwgb.wi.edu; Venier, Lisa; Canadian Forest Service; lvenier@nrcan.gc.ca; Welsh, Daniel; Canadian Forest Service; dwelsh@AM.NCR.FORESTRY.CA.
We review characteristics of birds in boreal forests in the context of their ecological sustainability under both natural and anthropogenic disturbances. We identify the underlying ecological factors associated with boreal bird populations and their variability, review the interactions between boreal bird populations and disturbance, and describe some tools on how boreal bird populations may be conserved in the future. The boreal system has historically been an area with extensive disturbance such as fire, insect outbreaks, and wind. In addition, the boreal system is vulnerable to global climate change as well as increasing pressure on forest and water resources. Current knowledge indicates that birds play an important role in boreal forests, and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Birds; Boreal; Conservation; Disturbance; Forests; Forestry; Natural resources; Nearctic; Palearctic; Sustainability; Trends.
Ano: 1998

Socioeconomic drivers of yard sustainable practices in a tropical city
Provedor de dados: 7
A growing body of work has emphasized the importance of residential areas to the overall green infrastructure of cities and recognizes that outcomes related to these areas are best studied using a social-ecological approach.  We conducted vegetation surveys to evaluate yard practices that relate to the state of the yard vegetation, including species diversity and abundance, vegetation structure, and the percent of green area of yards versus paved areas, at the R&amp;#237;o Piedras watershed within the San Juan metropolitan area. We used concomitant social household surveys to evaluate the association of social-economic and demographic factors at the household scale with these vegetation characteristics, as well as with landscape-level characteristics...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Green infrastructure; Residential yards; Social-ecological systems; Socioeconomic; Sustainability; Tropical; Urban.
Ano: 2014

The Chilika Lagoon Social-Ecological System: An Historical Analysis
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Nayak, Prateep K.; Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo ; pnayak@uwaterloo.ca.
Innovations in social-ecological research require novel approaches to conceive change in human-environment systems. The study of history constitutes an important element of this process. First, using the Chilika Lagoon small-scale fisheries in India, as a case, in this paper I reflect on the appropriateness of a social-ecological perspective for understanding economic history. Second, I examine here how changes in various components of the lagoon&amp;#8217;s social-ecological system influenced and shaped economic history and the political processes surrounding it. I then discuss the two-way linkages between economic history and social-ecological processes to highlight that the components of a social-ecological system, including the economic aspects, follow...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Chilika Lagoon; Drivers; Economic history; Human-environment disconnection; India; Livelihoods; Marginalization; Small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological change; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014

Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Golden, Jay S.; Nicholas School of the Environment and Nicholas Institute, Duke University Durham, North Carolina. ; Jay.Golden@Duke.edu; Dooley, K. J.; Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University;; Anderies, J. M.; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; m.anderies@asu.edu; Thompson, B. H.; Woods Institute for the Environment; Stanford Law School, Stanford University;; Gereffi, G.; Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness,  Duke University;; Pratson, L; Energy and Environment Program, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University;.
There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability.  Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manner; this had led to many early successes. However, we believe that if policy concerning product sustainability is also managed in this way, negative unintended consequences are likely to occur. Thus, we propose a social&amp;#8211;ecological systems approach to policy making concerning product sustainability that will lead to more rapid and meaningful progress toward improving the environmental and social impacts of consumer products.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Consumer products; Ecolabeling; Sustainable indexing; Sustainability.
Ano: 2010

Outcomes of State- vs. Community-Based Mangrove Management in Southern Thailand
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Sudtongkong, Chanyut; Asian Institute of Technology; Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya; chanuyts@gmail.com; Webb, Edward L.; Asian Institute of Technology; Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore; ted.webb@nus.edu.sg.
In Thailand, mangrove forests are claimed for state management, although it is widely recognized that coastal communities access and manage those forests. Skepticism persists within Thai government circles about whether coastal villages can sustainably manage and protect mangroves. This research presents evidence of successful mangrove conservation and management by two coastal villages in Trang province, southern Thailand. Using interdisciplinary methods including interviews, discussions, quantitative forest surveys, and institutional analysis, we describe the history of how these two communities gained rights to manage the mangrove forests, and the subsequent positive biological outcomes associated with their management. Local villages have crafted and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Collective action; Ecology; Forest management; Institutions; Management; Sustainability.
Ano: 2008

Campus sustainability and natural area stewardship:  student involvement in adaptive comanagement
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Krasny, Marianne  E; Cornell University; mek2@cornell.edu; Delia, Jesse; ; jessedelia@gmail.com.
University campus sustainability initiatives have proliferated over the last decade. We contend that such initiatives benefit from applying conceptual frameworks to help understand and guide their activities and from a focus on campus open space and natural areas management. Informed by an adaptive comanagement framework encompassing social learning, social capital, and shared action, we used semistructured interviews to examine student participation in the immediate response and longer-term policy formulation following a crisis that occurred in a campus natural area. Students exhibited social learning as demonstrated by reflection and the integration of new ideas through discussions with administrators and peers, as well as social capital through...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Natural areas; Sustainability; University.
Ano: 2014

A diagnostic procedure for applying the social-ecological systems framework in diverse cases
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hinkel, Jochen; Global Climate Forum (GCF), Berlin, Germany; hinkel@globalclimateforum.org; Cox, Michael E.; Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; michael.e.cox@dartmouth.edu; Binder, Claudia R.; University of Munich, Germany; claudia.binder@geographie.uni-muenchen.de; Falk, Thomas; University of Marburg, Germany; falkt@staff.uni-marburg.de.
The framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) framework of  Elinor Ostrom is a multitier collection of concepts and variables that have proven to be relevant for understanding outcomes in diverse SES. The first tier of this framework includes the concepts resource system (RS) and resource units (RU), which are then further characterized through lower tier variables such as clarity of system boundaries and mobility. The long-term goal of framework development is to derive conclusions about which combinations of variables explain outcomes across diverse types of SES. This will only be possible if the concepts and variables of the framework can be made operational unambiguously for the different types of SES, which, however,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Common-pool resource; Commons; Complex commons; Public good; Resource system; Resource unit; SES; Social-ecological system; Social-ecological system framework; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015

Innovation, Cooperation, and the Perceived Benefits and Costs of Sustainable Agriculture Practices
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lubell, Mark ; UC Davis; mnlubell@ucdavis.edu; Hillis, Vicken; UC Davis; avhillis@ucdavis.edu; Hoffman, Matthew; UC Davis; mbhoffman@ucdavis.edu.
A central goal of most sustainable agriculture programs is to encourage growers to adopt practices that jointly provide economic, environmental, and social benefits. Using surveys of outreach professionals and wine grape growers, we quantify the perceived costs and benefits of sustainable viticulture practices recommended by sustainability outreach and certification programs.  We argue that the mix of environmental benefits, economic benefits, and economic costs determine whether or not a particular practice involves decisions about innovation or cooperation.  Decision making is also affected by the overall level of knowledge regarding different practices, and we show that knowledge gaps are an increasing function of cost and a decreasing function of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Cooperation; Innovation; Knowledge networks; Resilience; Sustainability; Sustainable agriculture.
Ano: 2011

The Interplay of Well-being and Resilience in Applying a Social-Ecological Perspective
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Armitage, Derek; University of Waterloo; derek.armitage@uwaterloo.ca; Charles, Anthony T; Saint Mary's University; Tony.Charles@SMU.CA; Johnson, Derek; University of Manitoba; derek_johnson@umanitoba.ca; Allison, Edward H; The WorldFish Center and the University of East Anglia; e.allison@cgiar.org.
Innovative combinations of social and ecological theory are required to deal with complexity and change in human-ecological systems. We examined the interplay and complementarities that emerge by linking resilience and social well-being approaches. First, we reflected on the limitations of applying ecological resilience concepts to social systems from the perspective of social theory, and particularly, the concept of well-being. Second, we examined the interplay of resilience and well-being concepts in fostering a social-ecological perspective that promises more appropriate management and policy actions. We examined five key points of interplay: (1) the limits of optimization thinking (e.g., maximum sustainable yield), (2) the role of human agency and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Agency; Governance; Integration; Interdisciplinarity; Policy; Sustainability; Thresholds; Transdisciplinarity; Uncertainty.
Ano: 2012

A pedagogical model for integrative training in conservation and sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Welch-Devine, Meredith; Center for Integrative Conservation Research, University of Georgia; Graduate School, University of Georgia; mwdevine@uga.edu; Hardy, Dean; Center for Integrative Conservation Research, University of Georgia; Department of Geography, University of Georgia; rdhardy@uga.edu; Brosius, J. Peter; Center for Integrative Conservation Research, University of Georgia; Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia; pbrosius@uga.edu; Heynen, Nik; Center for Integrative Conservation Research, University of Georgia; Department of Geography, University of Georgia; nheynen@uga.edu.
The benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary training are well documented, and several reviews have discussed the particular importance of interdisciplinary training for conservation scholars and practitioners.  We discuss the progress within one university program to implement specific training models, elements, and tools designed to move beyond remaining barriers to graduate-level, interdisciplinary conservation education.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Conservation; Graduate education; Integrative; Interdisciplinary; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014

Synthesis of human-nature feedbacks
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hull, Vanessa; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), Michigan State University; hullvane@msu.edu; Tuanmu, Mao-Ning; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), Michigan State University; mao-ning.tuanmu@yale.edu; Liu, Jianguo; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), Michigan State University; liuji@msu.edu.
In today&amp;#8217;s globalized world, humans and nature are inextricably linked. The coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) framework provides a lens with which to understand such complex interactions. One of the central components of the CHANS framework involves examining feedbacks among human and natural systems, which form when effects from one system on another system feed back to affect the first system. Despite developments in understanding feedbacks in single disciplines, interdisciplinary research on CHANS feedbacks to date is scant and often site-specific, a shortcoming that prevents complex coupled systems from being fully understood. The special feature &amp;#8220;Exploring Feedbacks in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS)&amp;#8221;...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: CHANS; Feedback; Policy; Sustainability; Telecoupling; Time lag.
Ano: 2015

The Use of Impact Assessment Tools to Support Sustainable Policy Objectives in Europe
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: De Smedt, Peter; Research Centre of the Flemish Government; peter.desmedt@dar.vlaanderen.be.
Sustainable development has become an overall policy objective in Europe. The sustainability transition is seen as the process of coming to terms with sustainability in all its ecological, social, economic, and institutional dimensions. This challenging process is as much about new ways of knowing as it is about resource management and product innovation. I analyzed how scientific tools such as environmental, socioeconomic, and integrated models have been developed and used to provide a solid foundation for sustainable policy objectives. I used a scoping study to compare current impact assessment exercises and research policy cases within the European Commission (EC). Although the EC is recognized as having supported environmental policy integration for...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Impact assessment; Science-policy interface; Sustainability.
Ano: 2010

Resilience of small-scale societies: a view from drylands
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Puy, Arnald; Institute of Geography, University of Cologne; Maritime Civilizations Department, Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa; arnald.puy@gmail.com; Biagetti, Stefano; Complexity and Socio-Ecological dynamics (CaSEs), Spain; Departament d'Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies (GAES), University of the Witwatersrand; stefano.biagetti@upf.edu.
To gain insights on long-term social-ecological resilience, we examined adaptive responses of small-scale societies to dryland-related hazards in different regions and chronological periods, spanning from the mid-Holocene to the present. Based on evidence from Africa (Sahara and Sahel), Asia (south margin of the Thar desert), and Europe (South Spain), we discuss key traits and coping practices of small-scale societies that are potentially relevant for building resilience. The selected case studies illustrate four main coping mechanisms: mobility and migration, storage, commoning, and collective action driven by religious beliefs. Ultimately, the study of resilience in the context of drylands emphasizes the importance of adaptive traits and practices that...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Climate change; Coping mechanisms; Drylands; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability; Traditional ecological knowledge.
Ano: 2016

A Diagnostic Procedure for Transformative Change Based on Transitions, Resilience, and Institutional Thinking
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ferguson, Briony C.; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; briony.ferguson@monash.edu; Brown, Rebekah R.; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; Rebekah.Brown@monash.edu; Deletic, Ana; Department of Civil Engineering; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; ana.deletic@monash.edu.
Urban water governance regimes around the world have traditionally planned large-scale, centralized infrastructure systems that aim to control variables and reduce uncertainties. There is growing sectoral awareness that a transition toward sustainable alternatives is necessary if systems are to meet society&amp;#8217;s future water needs in the context of drivers such as climate change and variability, demographic changes, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity. However, there is minimal understanding of how the urban water sector should operationalize its strategic planning for such change to facilitate the transition to a sustainable water future. We have integrated concepts from transitions, resilience, and institutional theory to develop a...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Institutions; Resilience; Strategic planning; Sustainability; Transformative change; Transition; Urban water.
Ano: 2013

Incentive Systems That Support Sustainability: A First Nations Example
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Trosper, Ronald L; Northern Arizona University; Ronald.Trosper@nau.edu.
Prior to contact with European settlers, the incentive and governance systems used by First Nations peoples of the Northwest coast of North America provided more sustainable use of the fisheries and other resources of that region than did subsequent systems. This paper explores the major reason for that success: the requirements of the potlatch system that chiefs share their income with each other. Because chiefs controlled well-defined territories and subjected each other to review, the potlatch governance system embodied the characteristics of negative feedback, coordination, resiliency, and robustness that political scientist John Dryzek identifies as means to support ecological rationality in the management of ecosystems. This ecological rationality...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Incentive systems; Ecological rationality; Ecosystem management; Sustainability; Potlatch; First Nations; American Indians; Common-pool resource; Northwest Coast fishery; Property rights; Watershed ecosystem.
Ano: 1998

Social Learning and Natural Resource Management: The Emergence of Three Research Perspectives
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Rodela, Romina; Wageningen University and Research Centre; romina.rodela@wur.nl.
A review is presented of research contributions that use social learning in research on natural resource management. The review is based on an extensive survey of peer-reviewed journal articles appraised against the following selected analytical items: (1) characterizing features, (2) level of analysis, and (3) operational measures. Together, these allowed for an assessment of underlying assumptions and emerging themes. The findings suggest that, within natural resource management literature, three research approaches to social learning have been developed, each with its own assumptions about the learning process, learning outcomes, and operational practices. Hence, we find that a group of publications showed an interest for participants' learning...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Bibliography; Natural resource management; Social learning; Sustainability; Systematic review.
Ano: 2011

Rediscovering Rites of Passage: Education, Transformation, and the Transition to Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lertzman, David Adam; University of Calgary; lertzman@ucalgary.ca.
This paper focuses on rites of passage as a model for wilderness programs. It draws on my experience in the field, particularly with Native youth in a community-based program called "Rediscovery." The Rediscovery program is discussed, along with concepts of traditional indigenous knowledge and education. Foundational concepts of rites of passage are described in terms of their relevance to youth, outdoor education, and the Rediscovery program in particular. Using Rediscovery as a model, rites of passage are put forward as an educational process for youth from various cultural backgrounds. In this context, the purpose of education is to cultivate self-knowledge and to foster core personal development: the making of whole human beings. The paper closes with...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Canada; First Nations; Rediscovery; Indigenous peoples; Outdoor education; Rites of passage; Sustainability; Traditional knowledge; Youth.
Ano: 2002

Ten Principles for Biocultural Conservation at the Southern Tip of the Americas: the Approach of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Rozzi, Ricardo; Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Chile; Universidad de Magallanes, Chile; Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, USA; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Univeristy of Chile, Chile; rozzi@unt.edu; Massardo, Francisca; Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Chile; Universidad de Magallanes, Chile; francisca.massardo@umag.cl; Anderson, Christopher B; Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Chile; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Univeristy of Chile, Chile; Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, USA; cba@uga.edu; Heidinger, Kurt; Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Chile; fundacion@omora.org; Silander, Jr., John A.; Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Chile; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, USA; john.silander_jr@uconn.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Biocultural conservation; Biosphere reserve; Cape Horn; Chile; Environmental education; Environmental ethics; Flagship species; Interdisciplinary; Interinstitutional; Sustainability; Traditional ecological knowledge; Yahgan.
Ano: 2006

Using structured decision making with landowners to address private forest management and parcelization: balancing multiple objectives and incorporating uncertainty
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ferguson, Paige F. B.; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama; Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia; pfferguson@ua.edu; Conroy, Michael J;   Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia; mconroy@uga.edu; Chamblee, John F; Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia; chamblee@uga.edu; Hepinstall-Cymerman, Jeffrey;   Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia; jhepinst@uga.edu.
Parcelization and forest fragmentation are of concern for ecological, economic, and social reasons. Efforts to keep large, private forests intact may be supported by a decision-making process that incorporates landowners&amp;#8217; objectives and uncertainty. We used structured decision making (SDM) with owners of large, private forests in Macon County, North Carolina. Macon County has little land use regulation and a history of discordant, ineffective attempts to address land use and development. We worked with landowners to define their objectives, identify decision options for forest management, build a Bayesian decision network to predict the outcomes of decisions, and determine the optimal and least-desirable decision options. The optimal forest...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Bayesian decision network; Conservation easement; Decision analysis; Forestry; Fragmentation; Heritage; Present-use value; Sustainability; Timber harvest.
Ano: 2015

Green area loss in San Juan&amp;#8217;s inner-ring suburban neighborhoods: a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing green/gray area dynamics
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ramos-Santiago, Luis E.; The Florida State University, Department of Urban &amp; Regional Planning; ler12@my.fsu.edu; Villanueva-Cubero, Luis; University of Puerto Rico, Department of Natural Sciences; luis.villanuevacubero@upr.edu; Santiago-Acevedo, Luis E.; University of Puerto Rico, Graduate School of Planning; santiago.luis47@gmail.com; Rodriguez-Melendez, Yasha N.; Centro de Estudios Avanzados y del Caribe; yasha.rodriguez@yahoo.com.
The loss of green areas and vegetation in suburban neighborhoods poses short- and long-term consequences associated with environmental changes and socioeconomic decline that can propel such developments to an unsustainable state. We summarize an interdisciplinary investigation aimed at identifying the drivers of green area loss, green cover loss, and quantifying the impact on three inner-ring suburban neighborhoods located along the Rio Piedras watershed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. An inductive approach to social-ecological research was undertaken because it provides a flexible platform for interdisciplinary collaboration on this complex and dynamic subject. The three developments selected for the study were constructed in the mid-20th century under...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Green area loss; Inner-ring suburbs; Land-use science; Neighborhood decline; Puerto Rico; Social-ecological; Sustainability; Urban dynamics; Urban planning.
Ano: 2014

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Russian and Swedish Model Forest Initiatives: Adaptive Governance Toward Sustainable Forest Management?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Elbakidze, Marine; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; marine.elbakidze@smsk.slu.se; Angelstam, Per K; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; per.angelstam@smsk.slu.se; Axelsson, Robert; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; robert.axelsson@smsk.slu.se.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Boreal forest; Landscape; Multi-level collaboration; Sustainability; Sustainable development.
Ano: 2010

Conservation narratives in Peru: envisioning biodiversity in sustainable development
Provedor de dados: 7
In the mega-diverse country Peru, a resource intensive development model collides with the interest of conserving biodiversity. Peruvian biodiversity experts have developed different lines of argumentation as to how to integrate conservation into the sustainable development of their country.  Applying grounded theory, I define five groups of conservation narratives based on the analysis of 72 qualitative interviews with experts working in areas of biodiversity conservation. I have labeled them: biodiversity protectionists, biodiversity traditionalists, biodiversity localists, biodiversity pragmatists, and biodiversity capitalists. These groups are each discussed in connection with what they have to say about biodiversity in relation to human life,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Environmental discourses; Extractivism; Latin America; Natural capital; Political ecology; Protected areas; Sustainability.
Ano: 2016

Ecosystems and Immune Systems: Useful Analogy or Stretching a Metaphor?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Walker, Brian; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems; Brian.Walker@csiro.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Biological invasion; Ecosystems; Immune systems; Management; Metaphor; Sustainability.
Ano: 2001

Managing hunting under uncertainty: from one-off ecological indicators to resilience approaches in assessing the sustainability of bushmeat hunting
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: van Vliet, Nathalie; Center for International Forestry Research; vanvlietnathalie@yahoo.com; Fa, John; Center for International Forestry Research; jfa949@gmail.com; Nasi, Robert; Center for International Forestry Research; r.nasi@cgiar.org.
Despite the fact that sustainability of bushmeat hunting in tropical areas is of major concern for conservation and development practitioners, we still know very little about how to measure sustainability and how to put in place sustainable bushmeat hunting systems. We review the current limits of traditional methods used to investigate sustainability of bushmeat hunting, discuss the need to incorporate the characteristics of complex systems into sustainability assessments, and suggest how resilience theories could assist in understanding bushmeat sustainability and more effective conservation of wildlife in tropical areas. Traditional methods used to assess the sustainability of bushmeat hunting include demographic models of population growth, one-off...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Bushmeat; Hunting; Resilience analysis; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability; Tropical areas.
Ano: 2015

Emergence Unites Ecology and Society
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Trosper, Ronald L; University of British Columbia; Ronald.Trosper@ubc.ca.
The effort to combine analysis of ecosystems and social systems requires a firm theoretical basis. When humans are present in an ecosystem, their actions affect emergent structures; this paper examines forms of emergence that account for the presence of humans. Humans monitor and regulate ecosystems based on their cultural systems. Cultural systems consist of concepts linked in complicated ways that can form consistent world views, can contain inconsistencies, and may or may not accurately model the properties of a social&amp;#8211;ecological system. Consequently, human monitoring and regulating processes will differ, depending on cultural systems. Humans, as agents, change or maintain pre-existing material and cultural emergent structures. The...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Analytical dualism; Complexity; Critical realism; Ecological economics; Emergence; Social&amp;#8211; Ecological systems; Sustainability.
Ano: 2005

Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Morse, Wayde Cameron; University of Idaho; Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center; morsewc@auburn.edu; Nielsen-Pincus, Max; University of Idaho;; Force, Jo Ellen; University of Idaho;; Wulfhorst, J. D.; University of Idaho;.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Integration; Interdisciplinary; Team research; Sustainability; Biodiversity; Graduate education; Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship; University of Idaho; Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).
Ano: 2007

Linking Ecosystem Health Indicators and Collaborative Management: a Systematic Framework to Evaluate Ecological and Social Outcomes
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Sisk, Thomas D.; Northern Arizona University; Thomas.Sisk@nau.edu.
Collaborative management has gained popularity across the United States as a means of addressing the sustainability of mixed-ownership landscapes and resolving persistent conflicts in public lands management. At the same time, it has generated skepticism because its ecological and social outcomes are seldom measured. Evaluating the success of collaborative efforts is difficult because frameworks to assess on-the-ground outcomes are poorly developed or altogether lacking. Ecosystem health indicators are valuable tools for evaluating site-specific outcomes of collaboration based on the effects of collaboration on ecological and socioeconomic conditions. We present the holistic ecosystem health indicator, a promising framework for evaluating the outcomes of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative management; Holistic ecosystem health indicator; Northern Arizona rangeland; Outcome evaluation; Participatory approach; Socio-ecological systems; Sustainability.
Ano: 2007

Jatropha in Mexico: Environmental and Social Impacts of an Incipient Biofuel Program
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Skutsch, Margaret; Centro de Investigaciones en Geografia Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; mskutsch@ciga.unam.mx; de los Rios, Emilio; REMBIO, Mexico; emiliodelos@gmail.com; Solis, Silvia; Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; solis.sm@gmail.com; Riegelhaupt, Enrique; REMBIO, Mexico; riegelya@yahoo.com; Hinojosa, Daniel; Centro de Investigaciones en Geografia Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; idhinojosaf@gmail.com; Gerfert, Sonya; University of Twente, the Netherlands; s.gerfert@student.utwente.nl; Gao, Yan; Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; yangao98@gmail.com; Masera, Omar; Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; omasera@gmail.com.
Three case studies from Mexico are presented in which the impacts of the recent introduction of jatropha cultivation for biodiesel production are examined. In Chiapas and Michoacan, local social and environmental impacts were assessed using interviews with key informants and questionnaires directed at three groups of stakeholders: jatropha cultivators, farmers in the same areas who are not cultivating jatropha, and laborers on jatropha farms. Results show that the farmers are primarily motivated to participate by the subsidies offered in a government program in the first 2 years, rather than any proven economic benefit. Our farm budget study indicated that profits would be marginal for these farmers. However, no cases of land alienation were involved, and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Biodiesel; Carbon balance; Estates; Smallholders; Sustainability.
Ano: 2011

A Theoretical Approach to Tourism Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Casagrandi, Renato; Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano; casagran@elet.polimi.it; Rinaldi, Sergio; CIRITA, Politecnico di Milano; rinaldi@elet.polimi.it.
This paper shows that it is difficult, if not impossible, to formulate policies that guarantee that tourism can be maintained for a long time without severely impacting on the environment. The analysis is purely theoretical and is based on very simple and general assumptions about the interactions between the three main components of the system: the tourists, the environment, and the capital. These assumptions are encapsulated in a so-called minimal model, used to predict the economic and environmental impact of any given policy. This paper is of value for three reasons. First, it introduces the approach of minimal descriptive models in the context of tourism, which has traditionally been dominated by the use of black-box econometric models. Second, the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Bifurcation analysis; Environment; Model; Nonlinear dynamics; Sustainability; Tourism.
Ano: 2002

Trade-offs in ecosystem services and varying stakeholder preferences: evaluating conflicts, obstacles, and opportunities
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: King, Elizabeth; Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia; Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia; egking@uga.edu; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota; Institute on Environment, University of Minnesota; cavender@umn.edu; Polasky, Stephen; Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota; Institute on Environment, University of Minnesota; polasky@umn.edu.
In efforts to increase human well-being while maintaining the natural systems and processes upon which we depend, navigating the trade-offs that can arise between different ecosystem services is a profound challenge.  We evaluated a recently developed simple analytic framework for assessing ecosystem service trade-offs, which characterizes such trade-offs in terms of their underlying biophysical constraints as well as divergences in stakeholders&amp;#8217; values for the services in question. Through a workshop and subsequent discussions, we identified four different types of challenging situations under which the framework allows important insights to clarify the nature of stakeholder conflicts, obstacles to promoting more sustainable outcomes, and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Biophysical constraint; Conflict; Ecosystem service; Human values; Participatory tool; Production possibility frontier; Sustainability; Trade-off; Utility.
Ano: 2015

Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience: Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Jax, Kurt; Department of Conservation Biology, UFZ-Environmental Research Centre Leipzig-Ha; kurt.jax@ufz.de.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Boundary object; Definition; Descriptive concept; Ecological resilience; Resilience; Sustainability; Typology.
Ano: 2007

The Dark Side of Light:  A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Light Pollution Policy
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Moss, Timothy; Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner; MossT@irs-net.de; Griefahn, Barbara; Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund;; Kloas, Werner; Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin;; Voigt, Christian C.; Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin;; Schwope, Axel; Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam;; Franke, Steffen ; Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Greifswald;; Uhrlandt, Dirk ; Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Greifswald;; Klenke, Reinhard; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig ;; Wolter, Christian; Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin; wolter@igb-berlin.de.
Although the invention and widespread use of artificial light is clearly one of the most important human technological advances, the transformation of nightscapes is increasingly recognized as having adverse effects. Night lighting may have serious physiological consequences for humans, ecological and evolutionary implications for animal and plant populations, and may reshape entire ecosystems. However, knowledge on the adverse effects of light pollution is vague. In response to climate change and energy shortages, many countries, regions, and communities are developing new lighting programs and concepts with a strong focus on energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. Given the dramatic increase in artificial light at night (0 - 20% per year,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Artificial light; Energy efficiency; Lighting concept; Light pollution; Nightscape; Policy; Sustainability; Transdisciplinary.
Ano: 2010

Process design and sustainability in the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic materials
Provedor de dados: 69
Autores: Scott,Felipe; Quintero,Julián; Morales,Marjorie; Conejeros,Raúl; Cardona,Carlos; Aroca,Germán.
Background: Bioethanol is produced mainly from sugar cane and corn. In the last years it has been subject of debate due to the effects in food prices and land use change. The use of lignocellulosic materials for bioethanol production, such as agroindustry, forestry and municipal residues, wood or dendroenergetic species, has been proposed as a sustainable way for producing this biofuel. The design of a sustainable process for producing bioethanol requires a methodological approach whereby economical, environmental and social criteria are systematically integrated from the early stages of process design. Results: Until now a methodology for guiding the design of a sustainable process for bioethanol production is not available, and there are just a few...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Bioethanol; Life cycle analysis; Lignocelluloses; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582013000300013

Energetic analysis of landrace varieties and hybrids of corn produced in different technological levels of management
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Araujo,Alisson V. de; Brandão Junior,Delacyr da S.; Colen,Fernando.
The aim of this study was to analyze, under the energetic point of view, the cultivation of corn in three management systems (low, medium and high-tech), using two landrace varieties ('Argentino' and 'BR da Várzea'), a double hybrid cultivar (SHS 4080) and a simple hybrid (IAC 8333). Five performance indicators were used: energy efficiency, liquid cultural energy, cultural efficiency, energy balance and productive energy efficiency. From the perspective of family farming, it was verified the largest social importance of the systems under low and medium levels of technology, due to the increase employment capacity of rural labor. The liquid cultural energy and energy balance were more favorable for the system under high technological level, unlike cultural...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Energy balance; Cultural efficiency; Productive energy efficiency; Sustainability; Zea mays L.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162013000400004

Energy demand in citrus production under varied operational efficiency values
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Franco Junior,Nelson C.; Milan,Marcos; Romanelli,Thiago L.
Citrus orchards are very important in Brazil, especially in São Paulo State, where occupy an area of 600,000 ha approximately. To identify sustainability degree of citrus production system, an energy analysis allows evaluating efficiency of direct and indirect applied inputs. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate citrus production system under energetic point of view, in which invested energy is paid back with citrus production; being compared within three scenarios for operational field efficiency. As result, by sensitivity analysis was determined that fuel was the main energy demander, followed by pesticides and fertilizers. In operational work capacity analysis, all combinations between efficiency (minimum, typical and maximum) and yield levels became...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Energy balance; EROI; Machinery management; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162014000400014

BIOGAS YIELD AND PRODUCTIVENESS OF SWINE MANURE FOR DIFFERENT REACTOR CONFIGURATIONS
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Lins,Marcos A.; Steinmetz,Ricardo L. R.; Amaral,André C. do; Kunz,Airton.
ABSTRACT The progression of the organic loading rate (OLR) up to a certain limit increases biogas production. The limit and operation range vary according to the configuration of the reactor and are associated with other variables that generate different results with respect to biogas yield (BY) and biogas productiveness (BP). The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the OLR on the BY and BP from swine manure in continuous stirred tank reactors (CSTRs) and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors (UASBs). In the assay with the CSTR, the best operational condition was at an OLR of 0.7 gVS add L−1 reactor d−1 and a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 18 days. At this operational condition, 0.8 LN biogas gVS add−1 of BY and 0.6 LN biogas L−1...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Bioenergy; Sustainability; Swine farms.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162020000600664

Characterization and use of swine deep bedding ashes in cementitious composites
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Oliveira,Débora C. G. de; Rodrigues,Michelle S.; Santos,Sérgio F. dos; Savastano Junior,Holmer.
The deep bedding is a swine alternative production, especially in the finishing phase, whose byproduct can be recycled, reducing the environmental impact. The objectives of this study were to characterize the ash coming from the controlled burning of the swine deep bedding (SDBA) based on rice husk, and to evaluate their performance in composites as a partial substitute for Portland cement (PC). To measure the differences between SDBA and rice husk ash (RHA) as a reference, we have characterized: particle size distribution, real specific density, x-ray diffraction, electrical conductivity, scanning electron microscopy, chemical analysis and loss on ignition. Samples were prepared for two experimental series: control, and another one with the partial...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Composite; Rural construction; Residues; Swine production; Sustainability.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162012000500001

Energetic sustainability of three arabica coffee growing systems used by family farming units in Espírito Santo state
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Muner,Lúcio H. de; Masera,Omar; Fornazier,Maurício J.; Souza,Cássio V. de; Loreto,Maria Das D. S. de.
Three growing systems of Arabica coffee were evaluated under the energy perspective, in the state of Espírito Santo in Brazil. The systems are conventional cultivation (CC), cultivation with good agricultural practices (CGP) and organic farming (OF). It was made a comparison of the energy flows within these three systems to show sustainable levels of each one based on production average data of several family-farming units. Therefore, we analyzed crop yield, total energy efficiency reverse (TEER), energy efficiency of ripe coffee (EERC) and non-renewable energy efficiency (NREE). OF system had values for TEER, EERC and NREE of 3.3 4.7 and 7.9 respectively. Yet CC showed values of 1.8, 1.9 and 1.6 for TEER, EERC and NREE respectively. Furthermore, CGP...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Agroecosystem; Energy analysis; Coffee; Crop yield; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162015000300397

PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL AND THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF ADOBE STABILIZED WITH “SYNTHETIC TERMITE SALIVA”
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Gandia,Rômulo M.; Corrêa,Andrea A. R.; Gomes,Francisco C.; Marin,Diego B.; Santana,Lucas S.
ABSTRACT Adobe is an efficient construction material for several reasons, such as its thermal comfort, sustainability, and lower energy cost, as well as the simplicity of its production and execution. However, challenges such as water absorption, capillarity, and compressive strength should be investigated to improve its physical and mechanical properties. “Synthetic termite saliva” (STS) is an excellent stabilizer with high cohesive and hydrophobic power. Therefore, the objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of STS incorporation into adobe, analyzing its physical, mechanical and thermal properties. Five treatments were studied: 0 (control); 0.1; 0.2; 0.4 and 0.8% STS by mass. These adobe samples were evaluated according to bulk density, linear...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Nonconventional materials; Stabilization; Sustainability; Earth construction; Hydrophobicity.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162019000200139

FUZZY MODELING ON WHEAT PRODUCTIVITY UNDER DIFFERENT DOSES OF SLUDGE AND SEWAGE EFFLUENT
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Putti,Fernando F.; Kummer,Ana C. B.; Grassi Filho,Helio; Gabriel Filho,Luís R. A.; Cremasco,Camila P.
ABSTRACT: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of fertilization with composted sewage sludge and irrigation with drinking water (DW) and fertigation with wastewater (WW) in wheat crop using fuzzy rule-based system. The experiment was conducted in the Department of Soil and Environmental Resources, of FCA, UNESP - Botucatu, with factorial 6 × 2, which were applied 6 doses of sewage sludge (0, 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250% of nitrogen recommendation) and two types of effluents (treated water and sewage). In the developing of the system based in fuzzy rules, it was used the Mamdani inference method, where the input variables were sewage sludge doses and water types and the output variables used were the number of tillers, length and number spike per plant;...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Nitrogen; Mamdani; Fuzzy system.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162017000601103

PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL AND THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF ADOBE STABILIZED WITH THE SLUDGE OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
Provedor de dados: 70
Autores: Gandia,Rômulo M.; Gomes,Francisco C.; Corrêa,Andréa A. R.; Rodrigues,Maykmiller C.; Marin,Diego B.
ABSTRACT The need for treated water is essential for life. With the constant increase in population, the most common way to purify surface water is through conventional water treatment plants (WTPs). The high volume of residue (sludge) generated in this process is most often returned to the catchment site, negatively affecting the ecosystem. The sludge of WTPs is similar to soil because it is composed of inorganic solids. Adobe is a construction material made from water and soil without the burning process, so it is considered sustainable, recyclable, and energy-efficient and can be stabilized with various materials. Therefore, the objective of this work is to develop adobes using the sludge of WTPs and to analyse their physical, mechanical and thermal...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Wastewater treatment plants; Building materials; Sustainability; Composite materials; Waste in construction.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162019000600684

Agricultural Extension (ATER) of the EMATER Institute and the Dom Hélder Câmara Project (PDHC), in state of the Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Provedor de dados: 194
Autores: Gurgel, Rosane Fernandes de Sousa; Nunes, Emanoel Márcio; Silva, Vívian Menezes da.
The objective is to analyze characteristic aspects of different structures of Agricultural Extension (ATER), represented by the Institute of Agricultural Extension (EMATER-RN), and by the Dom Helder Câmara Project (PDHC) in agrarian reform settlements in the Territory of Citizenship Sertão do Apodi, in state of the Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The focus group technique was applied, as a qualitative research tool with full commitment to the comprehensive meta-scientific perspective. This is a qualitative research with interviews guided by a semi-structured script with territorial leaders, implementing organizations and direct beneficiaries of ATER actions carried out by EMATER and DHCP. The research results, after analyzing the different structures of ATER,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Extension; Family Farming; Sustainability; Territory; Agricultura familiar; Política pública; Sustentabilidade; Território.
Ano: 2022
URL: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/extensaorural/article/view/69139

Growth, yield, nutrient accumulation and export and thermal sum of Italian zucchini
Provedor de dados: 75
Autores: Purquerio,Luis Felipe V; Mattar,Gabriel S; Duart,Adriana M; Moraes,Carolina C de; Araújo,Humberto S; Santos,Fabrício Franco dos.
ABSTRACT Studies on plant nutrition are essential for a correct fertilizer management, improving yield and quality of the product, and it also may contribute for an updating recommendation. The aim of this study was to evaluate growth, nutrient accumulation and export, thermal sum and yield of zucchini cultivar Corona F1. The experiment was carried out from August 8 to October 25, 2013, in Santo Antônio de Posse, São Paulo State. At the end of the research, 84 days after transplanting (DAT), we observed 95 cm average height with 36 leaves and 45.8 t ha-1 maximum yield. The nutrient accumulation, in g plant-1, was: N (14.2) &gt; K (9.3) &gt; Ca (8.0) &gt; Mg (2.5) &gt; S (1.2) &gt; P (0.9) and in mg plant-1, Mn (49.3) &gt; Fe (34.9) &gt; Zn (19.6) &gt; B...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Cucurbita pepo; Growth; Plant nutrition; Horticulture; Sustainability.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362019000200221

Baby leaf lettuce production in trays with reused and solarized substrate
Provedor de dados: 75
Autores: Moraes,Lívia AS; Calori,Alex H; Factor,Thiago L; Patrício,Flávia RA; Ghini,Raquel; Abreu,Monica F; Purquerio,Luis FV.
ABSTRACT Concerning the baby leaf production in trays, substrate can be reused for a certain number of times depending on its chemical and physical characteristics, but populations of pathogens such as Pythium aphanidermatum and Rhizoctonia solani that can cause damping off of lettuce, can build up during the reuse of this substrate. Solar treatment in a solar collector can be an alternative for the disinfestation of these substrates. Thus, the objective of this research was to study the reuse of coconut fiber substrate and its solar treatment in solar collector on baby leaf lettuce production. The experimental design was randomized blocks, in a factorial scheme 4 (first-use substrate, reused once, reused twice and reused three times) x 2 (with and without...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Lactuca sativa; Coconut fiber; Solar treatment device; Horticulture; Sustainability.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362016000400463

Manure effect on the incidence of rose diseases in the Integrated Production System
Provedor de dados: 75
Autores: Ribeiro,Márcia NO; Almeida,Elka FA; Reis,Simone N; Carvalho,Livia M; Figueiredo,Júnia RM; Ribeiro Júnior,Pedro M.
ABSTRACT Deficiency, excess or imbalance in the combinations of nutritional elements can influence the response of plants to pathogen infection by either increasing the level of defense or favoring the occurrence of diseases. The rose is susceptible to several pathogens and the consumer market requires flower stalks with no level of damage. Therefore, in the production of roses the application of pesticides is performed in a preventive and intensive way, which causes environmental contamination. This study evaluated the effects of chemical fertilization management and intercropping with green manure on the incidence and severity of downy mildew and powdery mildew in rosebushes grown in an Integrated Production System. The experiment was conducted in a...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Rosa sp.; Sustainability; Certification; Downy mildew; Powdery mildew.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362016000300412

Inoculation of diazotrophic bacteria in chicory
Provedor de dados: 75
Autores: Braulio,Caliane da S; Nóbrega,Rafaela SA; Silva,Luís Cláudio V; Correia,Andreza de J; Sousa,Cheila BC de; Pereira,Elisângela G.
ABSTRACT Inoculating crops with diazotrophic bacteria constitutes a feasible biotechnological tool to reduce or even avoid the use of nitrogen fertilizers and to improve the nutritional status of crops. However, the potential use of such technology is limited due to the lack of studies in diverse vegetable crops. We evaluated the production of chicory (Cichorium intybus) in response to inoculation with diazotrophic bacteria in two soil classes. The experiments were performed under greenhouse conditions and under a completely randomized design. The treatments were constituted by strains UFRB FA34C2-2, UFLA 03-84 and INPA 0311B, and two control treatments (devoid of bacterial inoculation and with and without nitrogen fertilization). Two experiments were...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Cichorium intybus; Growth promoting rhizobacteria; Organic production; Sustainability.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362020000200185

Reuse water and urban horticulture: alliance towards more sustainable cities
Provedor de dados: 75
Autores: Bizari,Douglas R; Cardoso,Jean C.
ABSTRACT The need to rethink current models of using water resources in the various sectors of human activity is escalating, as thousands of people in different regions of the world are suffering from clean water shortage for their basic daily needs. In this context, the use of recycled water from treated domestic sewage in agricultural activities is gaining ground. Reuse water can combine environmental protection and high agricultural productivity, especially for simultaneously carrying plant nutrients and minimizing demands for catching "noble" fresh water from streams and water sources for irrigation, currently the highest water consuming activity. The increasing urbanization contributes to generate, but also to foster the treatment and use of...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Reuse; Recycled wastewater; Irrigation; Sustainability; Urban and peri-urban horticulture; Ornamental plants.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362016000300311

Organic cultivation of okra with ground cover of perennial herbaceous legumes
Provedor de dados: 75
Autores: Silva,Diego Mathias N da; Oliveira,Fábio Luiz; Grazziotti,Paulo Henrique; Fávero,Claudenir; Quaresma,Mateus Augusto L.
The management of green manure with perennial herbaceous legumes has emerged as an interesting practice for vegetable production, improving the cultivation environment and increasing crop yields. In the present study we evaluated the organic okra cultivation in soil covered with perennial herbaceous legumes. The treatments consisted of okra grown in bare soil (control) or covered with tropical kudzo (Pueraria phaseoloides), perennial soybean (Glycine wightii), calopogonium (Calopogonium muconoides), Pinto peanut (Arachis pintoi) and Stylosanthes capitata and Stylosanthes macrocephala. A randomized block design with four replications was used. The weeding of legumes was realized before the okra was sown and this allowed the addition of quantities of dry...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Abelmoschus esculentus; Green manures; Cover crops; Soil management; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362013000300017

Atividade madeireira como uma alternativa viável para a utilização sustentada dos recursos florestais na Amazônia brasileira.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SILVA, J. N. M.; UHL, C.
Tipo: Parte de livro
Palavras-chave: Floresta sustentável; Exploração madeireira; Manejo florestal; Brasil; Sustainability; Forestry production; Produção Florestal; Silvicultura; Uso da Terra; Amazonia; Forest management; Land use; Logging; Silviculture.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/394890

Sistema de producao, enfoque sistemico e sustentabilidade na producao leiteira.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: HOLANDA JUNIOR, E. V.
Este texto explora os conceitos/as idéias sobre o que venha a ser desenvolvimento sustentável, sistema de produção e sustentabilidade, procurando estabelecer ligações entre eles e demonstrar a importáncia da adoção coerente e articulada destes conceitos para a efetivação do desenvolvimento sustentável. Espera-se que este texto seja construído e reconstruído constantemente por críticas oriundas de estudos e debates mais sistemáticos e profundos sobre a contribuição da produção leiteira e dos profissionais com ela envolvidos para a operacionalização do desenvolvimento sustentável.
Tipo: Capítulo em livro técnico (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Production; Sustainability; Leite; Produção; Milk.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/134565

Produção sustentada da agropecuária integrada.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: VEIGA, J. B. da; HEBETTE, J.
Tipo: Parte de livro
Palavras-chave: Brasil; Sustainability; Agricultura Sustentável; Sistema de Cultivo; Uso da Terra; Amazonia; Cropping systems; Land use.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/394889

Extração madeireira na Amazônia: manejo sustentado ou silvicultura.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: HOMMA, A. K. O.; CONTO, A. J. de; FERREIRA, C. A. P.; CARVALHO, R. de A.
bitstream/item/99970/1/0911.pdf
Tipo: Artigo de divulgação na mídia (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Manejo sustentado; Brasil; Sustainability; Wood extracts.; Extração da Madeira; Silvicultura.; Amazonia; Silviculture.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/397231

Recuperação de áreas degradadas e abandonadas, através de sistemas de policultivo.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SHIFT PROJECT ENV 23 (Manaus-AM).
Manejo da area experimental, compreendendo: limpezas, podas, tratamentos fitossanitarios, adubacoes e colheita das plantas. Estudos de fitopatologia: observacoes continuas sobre a incidencia de doencas nas plantas, registro da incidencia da vassoura-de-bruxa no cupuacu, assim como adocao de medidas de controle, quando necessario. Estudos da variabilidade do cupuacu envolvendo a variabilidade das plantas nos diferentes sistemas de cultivo. Estudos da biologia do solo: analises de amostras do solo para quantificar a variabilidade de fungos micorrizicos vesicular-arbusculares na area experimental, na capoeira e na floresta primaria. Estudos de vegetacao: avaliacao dos tipos de vegetacao envolvendo a caracterizacao, o desenvolvimento e a identificacao das...
Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Agrofloresta; Brasil; Amazonas; Tropical rain forest; Reclamation; Sustainability; Árvore Frutífera; Biologia do Solo; Cultivo Multiplo; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Deterioração do Solo; Essência Florestal; Floresta Tropical Úmida; Micorriza; Recuperação do Solo; Agroforestry; Environmental degradation; Forest trees; Fruit trees; Multiple cropping; Soil biology; Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/667908

Desenvolvimento sustentável de assentamentos de reforma agrária da região do DF e entorno: um estudo de caso em Unaí- Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: OLIVEIRA, M. N. de; ROCHA, F. E. de C.; XAVIER, J. H. V.
bitstream/CPAC-2009/27669/1/p2006_09.pdf
Tipo: Fôlder / Folheto / Cartilha (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agrarian reform; Rural settlement.; Assentamento; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Planejamento Participativo; Reforma Agrária.; Planning.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/570149

Princípios básicos para a produção sustentável de bovinos de corte no Pantanal.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SANTOS, S. A.; CARDOSO, E. L.; SILVA, R. A. M. S.; PELLEGRIN, A. O.
Manejo nutricional e das pastagens; Manejo produtivo e reprodutivo; Seleção e melhoramento; Comercialização e marketing do produto.
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Manejo sustentável; Agroecossistemas; Tecnologia de processos; Production; Sustainability; Bovine; Sustainable management; Process of technology.; Bovino; Gado de Corte; Produção.; Agroecosystems; Pantanal; Dairy cattle.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/810725

Scenarios, challenges and opportunities for sustainable agricultural chemistry.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: VAZ JUNIOR, S.
bitstream/item/202219/1/SILVIODOC-30.pdf
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agrochemicals; Biotechnology.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1112377

A realidade bioeconômica do médio pecuarista: um estudo de caso em Mato Grosso do Sul.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: CEZAR, I. M.; CORRÊA, E. S.; COSTA, F. P.; SOUZA; O. C. de; AMARAL, T. B.; PORTO, J. C. A; SILVA, M. P. da; MAURO, R. A.; POTT, A.; MACEDO, M. C. M.
Base conceitual. O estudo de caso em Mato Grosso.
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Bovino de corte; Sustentabilidade; Mato Grosso do Sul; Brasil; Sustainability; Costs.; Análise Econômica; Custo de Produção; Sistema de Produção.; Brazil; Beef cattle; Economic analysis; Farming systems.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/316463

Produção de biomassa e fornecimento de nutrientes de plantas tropicais úteis selecionadas.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SCHMIDT, P.; LIEBEREI, R.; PREISINGER, H.; BAUCH, J.; GASPAROTTO, L.
Determinacao da producao de biomassa e das reservas de nutrientes de plantas tropicais uteis. Paralelamente, foi analisada a disponibilidade de nutrientes no solo. Esses experimentos podem permitir avaliar a forma mais viavel de crescimento sustentavel dos sistemas de plantio sob as condicoes prevalentes dos sitios. Sao apresentados preliminares.
Tipo: Capítulo em livro técnico (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Florestal tropical umida; Agrofloresta; Arvore rutifera; Derioracao do solo; Brasil; Amazonas; Reclamation; Sustainability; Biomassa; Conservação do Solo; Cultivo Multiplo; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Essência Florestal; Fertilidade do Solo; Nutriente; Recuperação do Solo; Agroforestry; Biomass; Forest trees; Fruit trees; Multiple cropping; Soil conservation; Soil fertility.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/667461

Fertility concepts and adequate management for soils in tropical regions.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: RONQUIM, C. C.
Global agricultural production will have to increase by 70% until 2050 to provide for the increasing food supply needed for a growing population, with growing revenues and a shifting, protein-based diet (FAO, 2017). This production will demand over 120 million hectares of agricultural lands, and must rely on sustainable agricultural intensification and productivity increase in areas which are already used for agricultural purposes. Singularities of tropical agriculture require detailed knowledge of chemical and physical properties of the soils, with the aim of properly using supplies and of adequately maintaining soils, to render more profitable productions. Thus, evaluating the chemical fertility of soils is essential to define adequate amounts and types...
Tipo: Boletim de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Alternative agriculture; Soil amendment; Sustainability; Fertilizer application.
Ano: 2021
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1132514

Critérios e indicadores para avaliação da sustentabilidade de empresa florestal em Tailândia, Pará, na Amazônia brasileira.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: POKORNY, B.; BAUCH, R.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi gerar fundamentos de um grupo de critérios e indicadores (C&amp;I) adequados para serem utilizados em monitoramento empresarial e em auditagem de sustentabilidade das atividades de indústria madeireira na Amazônia oriental brasileira. O estudo se baseia na suposição de que C&amp;I práticos e viáveis dependem das considerações dos interesses, visões e valores dos principais grupos de atores envolvidos no sistema de uso florestal. A ideia central do estudo foi identificar diferenças entre quatro grupos de atores (atores locais, governo, grupo operacional e pesquisadores) na avaliação de um conjunto de C&amp;I definidos por pesquisadores internacionais em um Workshop, e usar as diferenças detectadas para elaborar, em forma...
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Manejo florestal; Floresta sustentável; Tailândia; Pará; Brasil; Sustainability; Enviromental impact.; Exploração Florestal; Impacto Ambiental.; Amazonia; Forest management; Resource management.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/389655

Investigations on tree species suitable for the recultivation of degraded land areas in Central Amazonia.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SHIFT PROJECT ENV 42/2 (Curitiba-PR).
Project activities in 1999, in Manaus-AM(Brasil): water supply of the trees, carbohydrate supply of the trees, seed provenances, wood quality. After five years of experiments the investigations (1) the biomass production and nutrition of five plantation grown tree species, (2) the comparison of nutrient fluxes and grwoth dynamics of Carapa guianensis grown in monoculture and enrichment plantations, and (3) the study of cambial growth dynamics of three selected Meliaceae were terminated. In 1999 the data evaluation was carried out.
Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Cedrela odorota; Brasil; Amazonas; Manaus; Tropical rain forest; Reclamation; Sustainability; Species; Plant water relations; Seed; Carbhoydrate content; Agrossilvicultura; Andiroba; Bertholletia Excelsa; Carapa Guianensis; Carboidrato; Castanha do Para; Cultivo Multiplo; Cumaru; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Dipteryx Odorata; Essência Florestal; Floresta Tropical Úmida; Hymenaea Courbaril; Jatobá; Madeira; Mogno; Recuperação do Solo; Relação Água-Planta; Semente; Swietenia Macrophylla; Agroforestry; Forest trees; Multiple cropping; Soil; Wood.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/669636

Estrategias para o uso sustentavel da biodiversidade da caatinga.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: DRUMOND, M. A.; KIILL, L. H. P.; LIMA, P. C. F.; OLIVEIRA, M. C. de; OLIVEIRA, V. R. de; ALBUQUERQUE, S. G. de; NASCIMENTO, C. E. de S.; CAVALCANTI, J.
O presente documento foi preparado com objeto de servir de base à discussão do tema ?Estratégias Para o Uso Sustentável da Biodiversidade da Caatinga?, que resultará no documento final do Seminário ?Biodiversidade da Caatinga?, a ser realizado em Petrolina; Pernambuco, na Embrapa Semi-Árido, no período de 21 a 26 de maio de 2000. Este Seminário, parte integrante do Projeto de Conservação e Utilização Sustentável da Diversidade Biológica Brasileira (PROBIO), é promovido pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco-UFPE, Fundação Biodiversitas, Conservation International do Brasil, Embrapa Semi-Árido, Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Banco Mundial, CNPq, GEF, Secretaria de ciência de tecnologia e Meio Ambiente do Governo de Pernambuco e SUDENE.
Tipo: Fôlder / Folheto / Cartilha (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Potencial; Estrategia; Nordeste; Semi-arido; Sustainability; Potential; Strategy; Northeast; Semi-arid; Natural resource.; Recurso natural; Caatinga; Biodiversidade; Agricultura; Pecuária; Recurso Florestal; Tecnologia; Vegetação.; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Forest resources; Livestock; Technology; Vegetation.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/134000

Rekultivierung degradierter, brachliegender Monokulturflachen in ausgewogene Mischkulturflachen unter besonderer Berucksichtigung bodenbiologischer Faktoren.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SHIFT PROJEKT ENV 23 (Manaus-AM).
Relatório dos trabalhos realizados em recuperação de áreas degradadas no Amazonas (Brasil).
Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Agrofloresta; Brasil; Amazonas; Manaus; Sustainability; Árvore Frutífera; Cultivo Multiplo; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Essência Florestal; Floresta Tropical Úmida; Agroforestry; Forest trees; Fruit trees; Multiple cropping; Tropical rain forests.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/668594

Etnoecologia no comércio de iscas vivas no Pantanal.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: MARQUES, D. K. S.
A pesca de iscas tem grande importância social e econômica no Pantanal, representando a principal fonte de renda de centenas de famílias de pescadores profissionais artesanais. O principal produto comercializado são os peixes conhecidos regionalmente como ?tuviras? (Ordem Gymnotiformes), o que nos levou a escolher este peixe como modelo para pesquisar os diversos aspectos relacionados ao comércio de iscas vivas no Pantanal. Uma vez que a variabilidade intrínseca de uma região é relevante, a partir da sua análise sistemática é possível elaborar planos de usos eficientes dos recursos naturais. Portanto, as pesquisas realizadas no Pantanal, para o fim de suprir com informações a base da sustentabilidade, devem considerar a complexidade inerente a este...
Tipo: Boletim de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Socioecologia; Gymnotiforms; Sustainability; Socioecology.; Gymnotiformes.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1078008

Investigations on tree species suitable for the recultivation of degraded land areas in Central Amazonia.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SHIFT PROJECT ENV 42-2.
In cooperation with the Embrapa Amazonia Ocidental in Manaus (Amazonas, Brasil) and three German projects (ENV 23, ENV 45, ENV 52), in the year 2000 we especially investigated (1) photosynthesis and carbohydrate allocation and (2) the plant-water relationships of the selected tree species. Special emphasis was given to the three species of the family Meliaceae. Comparative experiments have been done for monoculture, polycultures, enrichment cultures, and primary forests.
Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Recuperaco do solo; Agrofloresta; Especie florestal; Fotossinte; Brasil; Amazonas; Tropical rain forest; Reclamation; Sustainability; Species; Plant water relations; Andiroba; Árvore Florestal; Carapa Guianensis; Carboidrato; Cedrela Odorata; Cedro; Cultivo Multiplo; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Deterioração do Solo; Floresta Tropical Úmida; Mogno; Relação Água-Planta; Swietenia Macrophylla; Uso da Terra; Agroforestry; Carbohydrates; Environmental degradation; Forest trees; Land use; Multiple cropping; Photosynthesis.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/670721

Soil fauna and litter decomposition in primary and secondary forests and a mixed culture system in Amazonia.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SHIFT PROJECT ENV 52 (Manaus-AM).
Estudo sobre a fauna do solo e decomposicao da serapinheira feito em tres diferentes ecossistemas na Amazonia central: (1) floresta primaria (FLO), (2) floresta secundaria (SEC), e (3) duas parcelas de cultivo misto (POA, POC). As pesquisas incluiram a avaliacao da producao e estoque de serapilheira, parametros do solo, fatores microclimaticos, abundancia e biomassa da fauna do solo, determinacao da respiracao no solo e biomassa microbiana, medidas das taxas de respiracao dos componenetes da fauna, e analises de micronutrientes. Apesar das diferencas observadas entre as areas de estudo, foi observado que em todas elas o sistema de decomposicao da serapilheira foi controlado pela macrofauna, e que, em todos os sistemas de cultivo estudados, as condicoes...
Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Brasil; Amazonas; Manaus; Sustainability; Agrossilvicultura; Conservação do Solo; Cultivo Multiplo; Decomposição; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Fauna Edáfica; Fertilidade do Solo; Floresta Tropical Úmida; Serapilheira; Uso da Terra; Agroforestry; Degradation; Forest litter; Land use; Multiple cropping; Soil conservation; Soil fauna; Soil fertility; Tropical rain forests.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/669549

Fabricas artesanais: estrategia da agricultura familiar a ser interpretada e explorada com maior eficiencia.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SPERRY, S.
bitstream/CPAC-2009/24721/1/doc_60.pdf
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Agroindustria; Aspecto economico; Produtor rural; Small farmers; Sustainability; Agroindustry; Economic situation; Organization dynamics.; Agricultura Familiar; Artesanato; Desenvolvimento Econômico; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Indústria Caseira; Planejamento Participativo; Sociologia Rural.; Rural sociology.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/546627

CULTIVO e uso do Estilosantes-campo-grande.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: Embrapa Gado de Corte (Campo Grande, MS).
Equipe multidisciplinar: Ademir Hugo Zimmer, CNPGC; Armindo Neivo Kichel, CNPGC; Bela Grof; Carlos Maurício Soares de Andrade; Celso Dornelas Fernandes, CNPGC; Francisco Assis Rolim Pereira; Haroldo Pires Queiroz, CNPGC; Hortência Maria Abranches Purcino; Jaqueline Rosemeire Verzignassi, CNPGC; José Alexandre Agiova da Costa, CNPGC; José Marcelino Sobrinho (in memorian); José Marques da Silva, CNPGC; José Raul Valério, CNPGC; Leônidas da Costa Schalcher Valle; Manuel Cláudio Motta Macedo, CNPGC; Maria José D´Ávila Charchar; Maria do Socorro Bona Nascimento; Marta Pereira da Silva; Rosângela Maria Simeão Resende; Roza Maria Shunke. Histórico e descrição da cultivar. Principais atributos do estilosantes-campo-grande. Fixação biológica de nitrogênio e valor...
Tipo: Comunicado Técnico (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Estilosantes; Desempenho animal; Consorciação; Campo Grande; Mato Grosso do Sul; Brasil; Management; Feed crops; Sustainability; Mixed pastures; Pests of plants; Plant diseases.; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Doença de Planta; Erva Daninha; Fixação de Nitrogênio; Historia; Leguminosae; Leguminosa Forrageira; Manejo; Pastejo; Pastagem; Nutrição Animal; Planta Forrageira; Praga de Planta; Produção Animal; Sistema de Cultivo; Valor Nutritivo.; Animal performance; Animal nutrition; Stylosanthes; Animal production; Brazil; Cropping systems; Grazing; History; Nutritive value; Pastures; Nitrogen fixation; Weeds.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/319150

Comparative studies on morpho-physiological traits of six Amazonian species of Bellucia and Miconia (Melastomataceae) and implications for their ecological behaviour.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: PREISINGER, H.; DUNISCH, O.; MORAIS, R. R. de; RICHTER, K.; ARAUJO, R. C.
Plants of six species from the Melastomataceae family (Miconia spp. and Bellucia spp.) taken from secondary forest stands of Terra Firme near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, were studied with regard to growth form, biometric traits of the plants, morphological and anatomical characteristics of leaves and wood. In addition, plant biomass and the content of mineral nutrients of different parts of the plants were analysed, and xylem flux measurements were carried out to determine the specific water uptake of the plants. The aim of the studies was to detect causal links between the parameters measured and the ecological behaviour of the species as observed in the field, in order to provide an autecological description of the species. The results show that the plant...
Tipo: Capítulo em livro técnico (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Brasil; Amazonas; Manaus; Sustainability; Anatomia; Andiroba; Carapa Guianensis; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Floresta Tropical Úmida; Madeira; Manejo; Reflorestamento; Forest management; Reforestation; Tropical rain forests; Wood anatomy.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/668432

Fixação de nitrogênio pela soja em sistemas de cultivo contínuo e rotacionado com pecuária nos Cerrados.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: MIRANDA, C. H. B.; MACEDO, M. C. M.
Quantificou-se a contribuição da fixação biológica de N2 (FBN) na cultura da soja em um Latossolo Vermelho-Escuro, utilizando-se a técnica da abundância natural do isótopo 15N. Foram estudados cinco tratamentos: 1) soja de primeiro ano em solo cultivado por quatro anos com Brachiaria decumbens, sob pastejo, e preparado mecanicamente (arado, grade pesada e niveladora); 2) mesmas condições anteriores, mas com plantio direto da soja; 3) soja em cultivo contínuo por cinco anos, como cultura de verão, sem plantio de milheto no outono/ inverno, e solo preparado de forma convencional (arado, grade pesada e niveladora); 4) soja com cultivo contínuo por cinco anos, com cultivo de outono/inverno de milheto (Pennisetum atropurpureum) e preparo de solo...
Tipo: Boletim de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Integração agricultura pecuária; Sustentabilidade; Brasil; Agropastoral systems; Sustainability; Brazilian savannas.; Brachiaria; Cerrado; Fixação de Nitrogênio; Milheto; Panicum Maximum; Sistema de Cultivo; Soja.; Cropping systems; Brazil; Nitrogen fixation; Millets; Soybeans.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/325260

Contribuindo para o desenvolvimento sustentável da Amazônia.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL.
bitstream/item/173393/1/CONTRIBUICAO-PARA-O-DESENVOLVIMENTO.pdf
Tipo: Fôlder / Folheto / Cartilha (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Agroindústria; Brasil; Sustainability; Agricultural developlment; Agroindustrial complexes.; Desenvolvimento Florestal; Desenvolvimento Agrícola; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Instituição de Pesquisa.; Amazonia; Forestry development; Research institutions.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/377493

Manejo sustentável de recursos florestais em áreas de colonos na região de Marabá, Estado do Pará.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: FERREIRA, M. do S. G.
bitstream/item/57635/1/CPATU-PA175.pdf
Tipo: Séries anteriores (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Manejo sustentável; Floresta coletiva; Itupiranga; Marabá; Pará; Brasil; Forest inventories; Forest production; Sustainability; Communal forest.; Inventário Florestal; Produto Florestal; Recurso Florestal.; Amazonia; Forestry.; Forest resources.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/375217

Biodiversidade e produção sustentável de alimentos e fibras nos Cerrados: anais.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SIMPÓSIO SOBRE O CERRADO, 8.; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TROPICAL SAVANNAS, 1., 1996, Brasilia, DF.
O Brasil e um dos paises com maior diversidade genetica, respondendo por cerca de 30% das plantas e especies animais que ocorrem no mundo. Dentre os diferentes biomas brasileiros, os Cerrados, com seus 207 milhoes de hectares, apresenta uma grande diversidade faunistica e floristica em suas diferentes fisionomias vegetais. Ate meados deste seculo esta regiao era considerada como marginal para producao agricola, no entanto, devido ao desenvolvimento da pesquisa e de tecnologias agricolas que viabilizaram sua utilizacao em bases economicas, hoje ela e responsavel pela producao de cerca de 35% de graos e carnes do pais. O modelo de ocupacao da terra utilizado, baseado no uso intensivo de insumos e maquinas pesadas, se de um lado, no ultimos vinte anos,...
Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Agricultura sustentada; Fibres; Sustainability; Plant production; Feed crops; Socioeconomic organization; Brasil; Japão; BIBJICACPAC; Alimento; Cerrado; Fertilidade do Solo; Fibra; Floresta; Manejo do Solo; Melhoramento Vegetal; Pastagem; Planta Forrageira; Produção; Produção Animal; Produção Vegetal; Recurso Natural; Silvicultura; Cooperação Internacional; Pesquisa; Biodiversidade; Desenvolvimento Socio-Econômico; Animal production; Biodiversity; Food production; Forestry; Natural resources; Pastures; Plant breeding; Savannas; Silviculture; Soil fertility; Soil management.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/551822

Rekultivierung degradierter, brachliegender Monokulturflächen in ausgewogene mischkulturflächen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung bodenbiologischer Faktoren.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: SHIFT PROJEKT ENV 23 (Manaus-AM).
Relatório dos trabalhos realizados em recuperação de áreas degradadas no Amazonas (Brasil).
Tipo: Outras publicações técnicas (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Agrofloresta; Brasil; Amazonas; Manaus; Sustainability; Árvore Frutífera; Cultivo Multiplo; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Essência Florestal; Floresta Tropical Úmida; Agroforestry; Multiple cropping; Tropical rain forests.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/667794

Diagnóstico socioeconômico dos municípios goianos da Região Paranã-Pirineus.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: HAYES, K. M.; BARROS, C. J. da S.; SILVA, M. R. da; GASTAL, M. L.; RIBEIRO, J. F.
ABSTRACT: The project "Conservation and Management of the Biodiversity of the Cerrado biome - CMBBC", chose as its regional study area, the geographical region of northeastern Goiás called Paranã-Pirineus. One of the initial tasks of this project was the socioeconomic characterization of the 34 cities and towns (municipalities) which comprise the Paranã-Pirineus regional study area. Using data from the last Brazilian demographic census, the 34 towns were evaluated considering the following items: population characteristics; education; income; housing characteristics; basic sanitation conditions; health; economic characteristics; number of agricultural establishments and land-use on such establishment; and the characteristics of agriculture in the region....
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Socioeconomia; Estudo regional; Goiás; Brasil; Característica da população; Socioeconomic; Regional study; Sustainability; Demographic census; Living standards.; Censo Demográfico; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Nível de Vida.; Brazil; Population characteristics.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/568051

Método participativo de apoio ao desenvolvimento sustentável de assentamentos de reforma agrária.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: GASTAL, M. L.; XAVIER, J. H. V.; ROCHA, F. E. de C.; MOLINA, M. C.; ZOBY, J. L. F.
In this work, it is presented methos used in the project: "Adaptation and utilization of methodological participative device to support the sustainable development of farmer from agrarian reform", usually known as project Unaí.The implementation of the project, tries to promote the sustainable development of farmers from agrarian reform of the areas on the Federal District and incra - SR (28), adapting a participative method of intervention of field condition to facilitate the use of technological and social innovations for the farmers. It is based on the consepts of Research &amp; Development (R&amp;D). in this case , R&amp;D is defined as an research of participation where it is associated, narrowly, researchers, extencionists and farmers in a common...
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agrarian reform; Rural settlement; Production systems; Innovation.; Assentamento; Associação Rural; Desenvolvimento Sustentável; Desenvolvimento Econômico; Inovação; Microeconomia; Mercado; Planejamento Participativo; Reforma Agrária; Sistema de Produção; Tecnologia.; Markets; Planning; Technology.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/568030

Conservacao e uso sustentavel de recursos geneticos de Manihot.
Provedor de dados: 14
Autores: ALLEM, A. C.; SALOMAO, A. N.; BURLE, M. L.; MENDES, R. A.; GOES, M. de; DESMOULIERE, S.; CARVALHO, P. C. L. de; CAVALCANTI, J.
Recursos geneticos de especies brasileiras de Manihot (Euphorbiaceae) foram estudados numa abordagem interdisciplinar que visou a produzir conhecimentos em areas de pesquisa pouco exploradas ou em areas cujo conhecimento e considerado carente. Nesta comunicacao apresentam-se sequencialmente resultados das seguintes pesquisas inter-relacionadas: 1. estudos etnobotanicos da mandioca na Amazonia brasileira; 2. estudos taxonomicos de especies silvestres da Amazonia brasileira; 3. estudos sobre a origem geografica da mandioca; 4. estudos de mapas ambientais georeferenciados aplicados a distribuicao ecogeografica de especies; 5. estudos de tecnicas de conservacao ex situ de especies, em especial o estabelecimento de protocolos para a quebra da dormencia e...
Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Palavras-chave: Uso sustentavel; Conservation; Use; Sustainability; Conservação; Mandioca; Recurso Genético; Manihot; Cassava; Genetic resources.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/134355

Global baselines and benchmarks for fish biomass: comparing remote reefs and fisheries closures
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Mcclanahan, Tim R.; Schroeder, Robert E.; Friedlander, Alan M.; Vigliola, Laurent; Wantiez, Laurent; Caselle, Jennifer E.; Graham, Nicholas A. J.; Wilson, Shaun; Edgar, Graham J.; Stuart-smith, Rick D.; Oddenyo, Remy M.; Cinner, J. E.
Baselines and benchmarks (B&amp;Bs) are needed to evaluate the ecological status and fisheries potential of coral reefs. B&amp;Bs may depend on habitat features and energetic limitations that constrain biomass within the natural variability of the environment and fish behaviors. To evaluate if broad B&amp;Bs exist, we compiled data on the biomass of fishes in similar to 1000 reefs with no recent history of fishing in 19 ecoregions. These reefs spanned the full longitude and latitude of Indian and Pacific Ocean reefs and included older high-compliance fisheries closures (&gt;15 yr closure) and remote reef areas (&gt;9 h travel time from fisheries markets). There was no significant change in biomass over the 15 to 48 yr closure period but closures had only...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Baselines; Coral reef fish; Fisheries and ecological indicators; Pristine or virgin biomass; Sustainability.
Ano: 2019
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00589/70064/68028.pdf

The Impossible Sustainability of the Bay of Brest? Fifty Years of Ecosystem Changes, Interdisciplinary Knowledge Construction and Key Questions at the Science-Policy-Community Interface
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Ragueneau, Olivier; Raimonet, Melanie; Maze, Camille; Coston-guarini, Jennifer; Chauvaud, Laurent; Danto, Anatole; Grall, Jacques; Jean, Frederic; Paulet, Yves-marie; Thouzeau, Gerard.
In this contribution, the study of the Bay of Brest ecosystem changes over the past 50 years is used to explore the construction of interdisciplinary knowledge and raise key questions that now need to be tackled at the science-policy-communities interface. The Bay of Brest is subject to a combination of several aspects of global change, including excessive nutrient inputs from watersheds and the proliferation of invasive species. These perturbations strongly interact, affecting positively or negatively the ecosystem functioning, with important impacts on human activities. We first relate a cascade of events over these five decades, linking farming activities, nitrogen, and silicon biogeochemical cycles, hydrodynamics of the Bay, the proliferation of an...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Land-ocean continuum; Bay of Brest; Interdisciplinarity; Science-policy-community interface.
Ano: 2018
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00616/72792/72272.pdf

A Global Mitigation Hierarchy for Nature Conservation
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Arlidge, William N. S.; Bull, Joseph W.; Addison, Prue F. E.; Burgass, Michael J.; Gianuca, Dimas; Gorham, Taylor M.; Jacob, Celine; Shumway, Nicole; Sinclair, Samuel P.; Watson, James E. M.; Wilcox, Chris; Milner-gulland, E. J.
Efforts to conserve biodiversity comprise a patchwork of international goals, national-level plans, and local interventions that, overall, are failing. We discuss the potential utility of applying the mitigation hierarchy, widely used during economic development activities, to all negative human impacts on biodiversity. Evaluating all biodiversity losses and gains through the mitigation hierarchy could help prioritize consideration of conservation goals and drive the empirical evaluation of conservation investments through the explicit consideration of counterfactual trends and ecosystem dynamics across scales. We explore the challenges in using this framework to achieve global conservation goals, including operationalization and monitoring and compliance,...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Adequacy; Biodiversity; Development; No net loss; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00442/55323/56831.pdf

Assessing aquaculture sustainability: a comparative methodology
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Lazard, Jerome; Rey-valette, Helene; Aubin, Joel; Mathe, Syndhia; Chia, Eduardo; Caruso, Domenico; Mikolasek, Olivier; Blancheton, Jean Paul; Legendre, Marc; Rene, Francois; Levang, Patrice; Slembrouck, Jacques; Morissens, Pierre; Clements, Olivier.
Little work dealing with the evaluation of aquaculture system sustainability has so far been undertaken on a global and comparative basis. Moreover, such work is mostly based on very unbalanced approaches in terms of the dimensions of sustainable development that are taken into account. The approach adopted in this article is designed to encompass all the dimensions of sustainability including the institutional one (governance). The taking into account of this latter, in particular, together with the role played by aquaculture in sustainability at the territorial level gives the approach its original and innovative nature. The process of establishing the checklist of sustainability indicators in aquaculture relies on a hierarchical nesting approach which...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Indicators; Co-construction; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00245/35598/34151.pdf

A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Claudet, Joachim; Bopp, Laurent; Cheung, William W.l.; Devillers, Rodolphe; Escobar-briones, Elva; Haugan, Peter; Heymans, Johanna J.; Masson-delmotte, Valérie; Matz-lück, Nele; Miloslavich, Patricia; Mullineaux, Lauren; Visbeck, Martin; Watson, Robert; Zivian, Anna Milena; Ansorge, Isabelle; Araujo, Moacyr; Aricò, Salvatore; Bailly, Denis; Barbière, Julian; Barnerias, Cyrille; Bowler, Chris; Brun, Victor; Cazenave, Anny; Diver, Cameron; Euzen, Agathe; Gaye, Amadou Thierno; Hilmi, Nathalie; Ménard, Frédéric; Moulin, Cyril; Muñoz, Norma Patricia; Parmentier, Rémi; Pebayle, Antoine; Pörtner, Hans-otto; Osvaldina, Silva; Ricard, Patricia; Santos, Ricardo Serrão; Sicre, Marie-alexandrine; Thiébault, Stéphanie; Thiele, Torsten; Troublé, Romain; Turra, Alexander; Uku, Jacqueline; Gaill, Françoise.
The health of the ocean, central to human well-being, has now reached a critical point. Most fish stocks are overexploited, climate change and increased dissolved carbon dioxide are changing ocean chemistry and disrupting species throughout food webs, and the fundamental capacity of the ocean to regulate the climate has been altered. However, key technical, organizational, and conceptual scientific barriers have prevented the identification of policy levers for sustainability and transformative action. Here, we recommend key strategies to address these challenges, including (1) stronger integration of sciences and (2) ocean-observing systems, (3) improved science-policy interfaces, (4) new partnerships supported by (5) a new ocean-climate finance system,...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Ocean health; Human well-being; United Nations; Policy levers; Sustainability; Transformative actions; Strategy.
Ano: 2020
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00637/74861/75262.pdf

High-rate algal pond treatment for water reuse in an integrated marine fish recirculating system: effect on water quality and sea bass growth
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Deviller, Genevieve; Aliaume, Catherine; Franco, Miguel; Casellas, Claude; Blancheton, Jean-paul.
A high-rate algae pond (HRAP) was tested as a second loop of water treatment in a recirculating fish rearing system to reduce water requirements and nutrient discharge levels. Three duplicated groups of sea bass (mean initial body weight 3 5 I I g) were reared under different system conditions (flow-through system, recirculating system and recirculating system with HRAP) for I year. Fish survival rate was higher in the system with HRAP, and their mean body weight was statistically higher (p&lt;0.05) during the month of maximal climatic conditions for algae photosynthesis. After 266 days of experiment, mean fish weight was significantly higher (p&lt;0.05) in the flow-through system than in the recirculating systems. Final fish weight was 15% higher in the...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Phosphorus; Nitrogen; Fish growth; Recirculation; High rate algae pond.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2004/publication-620.pdf

Ecological-economic modelling for the sustainable management of biodiversity
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Doyen, Luc; Cisse, Abdoul; Gourguet, Sophie; Mouysset, L.; Hardy, Pierre-yves; Bene, Christophe; Blanchard, Fabian; Jiguet, Frederic; Pereau, J.-c.; Thebaud, Olivier.
Terrestrial and marine biodiversity provides the basis for both ecosystems functioning and numerous commodities or services that underpin human well-being. From several decades, alarming trends have been reported worldwide for both biodiversity and ecosystem services. Therefore the sustainable management of biodiversity requires a double viewpoint balancing ecological conservation with the welfare of human societies. Understanding the underlying trade-offs, synergies and interactions imposes the development of interdisciplinary researches and methods. In that respect, bio-economic or ecological economic modeling is likely to play a major role. The present paper intends to elicit the key features, strengths and challenges of bio-economic approaches...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Ecological economics; Modeling; Sustainability; Biodiversity; Public policy; Criterion; Equilibrium; Optimality; Viability.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00171/28208/26510.pdf

Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices and Standards for the Next Decade
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Pearlman, Jay; Bushnell, Mark; Coppola, Laurent; Karstensen, Johannes; Buttigieg, Pier Luigi; Pearlman, Francoise; Simpsons, Pauline; Barbier, Michele; Muller-karger, Frank E.; Munoz-mas, Cristian; Pissierssens, Peter; Chandler, Cyndy; Hermes, Juliet; Heslop, Emma; Jenkyns, Reyna; Achterberg, Eric P.; Bensi, Manuel; Bittig, Henry C.; Blandin, Jerome; Bosch, Julie; Bourles, Bernard; Bozzano, Roberto; Buck, Justin J. H.; Burger, Eugene F.; Cano, Daniel; Cardin, Vanessa; Llorens, Miguel Charcos; Cianca, Andres; Chen, Hua; Cusack, Caroline; Delory, Eric; Garello, Rene; Giovanetti, Gabriele; Harscoat, Valerie; Hartman, Susan; Heitsenrether, Robert; Jirka, Simon; Lara-lopez, Ana; Lanteri, Nadine; Leadbetter, Adam; Manzella, Giuseppe; Maso, Joan; Mccurdy, Andrea; Moussat, Eric; Ntoumas, Manolis; Pensieri, Sara; Petihakis, George; Pinardi, Nadia; Pouliquen, Sylvie; Przeslawski, Rachel; Roden, Nicholas P.; Silke, Joe; Tamburri, Mario N.; Tang, Hairong; Tanhua, Toste; Telszewski, Maciej; Testor, Pierre; Thomas, Julie; Waldmann, Christoph; Whoriskey, Fred.
The oceans play a key role in global issues such as climate change, food security, and human health. Given their vast dimensions and internal complexity, efficient monitoring and predicting of the planet's ocean must be a collaborative effort of both regional and global scale. A first and foremost requirement for such collaborative ocean observing is the need to follow well-defined and reproducible methods across activities: from strategies for structuring observing systems, sensor deployment and usage, and the generation of data and information products, to ethical and governance aspects when executing ocean observing. To meet the urgent, planet-wide challenges we face, methods across all aspects of ocean observing should be broadly adopted by the ocean...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Best practices; Sustainability; Interoperability; Digital repository; Peer review; Ocean observing; Ontologies; Methodologies.
Ano: 2019
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00503/61423/65111.pdf

A framework for evaluating management plans comprehensively
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Trenkel, Verena; Rochet, Marie-joelle; Rice, Jake C.
We present a framework for evaluating fisheries management plans comprehensively, both rebuilding plans and others. The framework includes a first rapid appraisal of the likelihood that the plan will result in management meeting its objectives, and guides subsequent quantitative analyses of potential weaknesses in the proposed plan. The framework includes four steps: (i) evaluating if a set of management objectives, if achieved, would result in a sustainable fishery, (ii) using qualitative analysis of a bio-economic model to evaluate whether the set of stock management tactics might be capable of achieving the specified fisheries objectives, (iii) using empirical criteria derived from the literature to evaluate if other management measures in the plan...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Loop analysis; Management strategy; Management strategy evaluation; Qualitative modelling; Stock rebuilding; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00198/30931/29363.pdf

Vingt ans d’aquaculture en Afrique du Nord : évolutions, bilan critique et avenir
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Kara, Mohamed Hichem; Lacroix, Denis; Sadek, Sherif; Blancheton, Jean-paul; Rey-valette, Helene; Kraiem, Mejdeddine.
This paper presents the evolution of aquaculture in North Africa during the 20 last years, and the assets and bottlenecks for each country. This work uses the results of the European project Aquamed (2011-2013). The analysis of the evolutions of this sector, including research and development allows to establish a diagnosis on the strengths and the weaknesses in the four countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt). The retrospective analysis helps in identifying solutions for a more sustainable development. It also contributes to select priorities for action in a long-term vision (2035). This double overview, on the past and the future, should help decision-makers and experts to identify the best politics for a sector, which has a high potential in the...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Recherche et développement; Durabilité; Méditerranée; Afrique du Nord; Aquaculture; Research and development; Sustainability; Mediterranean; North Africa.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00368/47938/47959.pdf

Aquaculture et prospective : un passé simple et ses futurs antérieurs
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Lacroix, Denis.
Aquaculture is one of the main supply of protein in feed for mankind, notably in Asia. It increases and had exceeded the level of production of world fisheries, which is decreasing. According to sites and rearing methods, aquaculture contributes to add value but also in some cases to impact negatively the aquatic ecosystems. In the coastal area, a rich and productive zone, but also a place of conflicts, this activity presents a high potential for development if it takes into account the rules of sustainability. The conditions of this sustainability may be cleared with appropriate methods of foresight analysis applied for each development project. The analysis of the professional experience of D. Lacroix for 33 years in aquaculture is structured in three...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Prospective; Durabilité; Macrobrachium rosenbergii; Aquaculture; Foresight analysis; Sustainability; Macrobrachium rosenbergii.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00032/14349/11633.pdf

Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations: an interdisciplinary social science enquiry
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Schlüter, Achim; Bavinck, Maarten; Hadjimichael, Maria; Partelow, Stefan; Said, Alicia; Ertör, Irmak.
Privatization of the ocean, in the sense of defining more exclusive property rights, is taking place in increasingly diverse ways. Because of more intensive and diversified use patterns and increasing sustainability challenges, it is likely that this process will continue into the future. We argue that the nature of privatization varies from one oceanic domain to another. We differentiate four ideal-typical domains: (1) resources, (2) space, (3) governance control, and (4) knowledge, and nine criteria for the assessment of privatization. We apply those criteria to a selection of examples from the realm of marine life (from micro-organisms to fish) to highlight similarities and differences and establish foundations for broader analysis. We aim hereby to...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Ocean; Privatization; Property rights; Sustainability.
Ano: 2020
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00648/76050/76994.pdf

Size limits regulation for Tuna: should we also consider the protection of large fish?
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Fromentin, Jean-marc.
A recent body of literature has demonstrated that older females produce larvae and offsprings that have much higher survival and growth than do younger adults and that they furthermore play a key role in the adaptability, persistence and productivity of the exploited fish populations. These findings, that have been shown for several pelagic, groundfish and rockfish species, are, thus, worth to consider for tuna and tuna-like species. The aim of this modest and brief paper is solely to draw the attention from the SCRS to this issue which may have considerable impacts on management regulations.
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Age structure; Genetic diversity; Recruitment success; Sustainability; Management.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00192/30333/28808.pdf

JERICO-RI: The integrated coastal component of the European Ocean Observing System
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Farcy, Patrick; Durand, Dominique; Puillat, Ingrid; Petihakis, George; Tintore, Joaquin.
JERICO, the European research infrastructure of coastal observatories (JERICORI) is an ocean observing system of systems, designed to provide high-quality data that are supporting knowledge development on the complex and often coupled physical, chemical and biological processes characterizing the coastal waters of Europe. JERICO-RI integrates several observing platform types i.e. fixed buoys, piles, moorings, drifters, Ferrybox, gliders, HF radars, coastal cable observatories and the associated technologies dedicated to the observation and monitoring of the European coastal seas. The RI is to serve both the implementation of European marine policies and the elucidation of contemporary and future key scientific questions. It therefore includes observations...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: JERICO; JERICO-NEXT; Coastal observatory; Sytem of systems; Harmonization; Sustainability; Open access; Blue Growth.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00450/56137/57679.pdf

Fishery externalities and biodiversity: Trade-offs between the viability of shrimp trawling and the conservation of Frigatebirds in French Guiana
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Martinet, Vincent; Blanchard, Fabian.
Sustainable management of natural resources, and in particular fisheries, must take into account several conflicting objectives. This is the case in the French Guiana shrimp fishery for which profitability objectives imply a reduction in the fishing activity. On the one hand, this fishery has negative externalities on marine biodiversity due to discards. On the other hand, this fishery has positive externalities on the economy of the local community and interestingly enough on a protected seabird species in the area (the Frigatebird that feeds on discards). In this paper, we examine the viability of that system considering two sustainability objectives: an economic objective in terms of the profitability of the fishing activity, and a conservation...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Bio-economic modeling; Viability; Sustainability; Fishery externalities; Species conservation.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00020/13135/10195.pdf

Ecoviability for small-scale fisheries in the context of food security constraints
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Cisse, Abdoul; Doyen, L.; Blanchard, Fabian; Bene, Christophe; Pereau, J. -c.
This paper applies a stochastic viability approach to a tropical small-scale fishery, offering a theoretical and empirical example of ecosystem-based fishery management approach that accounts for food security. The model integrates multi-species, multi-fleet and uncertainty as well as profitability, food production, and demographic growth. It is calibrated over the period 2006–2010 using monthly catch and effort data from the French Guiana's coastal fishery, involving thirteen species and four fleets. Using projections at the horizon 2040, different management strategies and scenarios are compared from a viability viewpoint, thus accounting for biodiversity preservation, fleet profitability and food security. The analysis shows that under certain...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Small-scale fishery; Biodiversity; Sustainability; Profitability; Food security; Multi-species; Multi-fleet; Stochasticity; Viability; Scenario.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00276/38732/37310.pdf

Inclusion of ecological, economic, social, and institutional considerations when setting targets and limits for multispecies fisheries
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Rindorf, Anna; Dichmont, Catherine M.; Thorson, James; Charles, Anthony; Clausen, Lotte Worsoe; Degnbol, Poul; Garcia, Dorleta; Hintzen, Niels T.; Kempf, Alexander; Levin, Phillip; Mace, Pamela; Maravelias, Christos; Minto, Coilin; Mumford, John; Pascoe, Sean; Prellezo, Raul; Punt, Andre E.; Reid, David G.; Roeckmann, Christine; Stephenson, Robert L.; Thebaud, Olivier; Tserpes, George; Voss, Ruediger.
Targets and limits for long-term management are used in fisheries advice to operationalize the way management reflects societal priorities on ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects. This study reflects on the available published literature as well as new research presented at the international ICES/Myfish symposium on targets and limits for long term fisheries management. We examine the inclusion of ecological, economic, social and institutional objectives in fisheries management, with the aim of progressing towards including all four objectives when setting management targets or limits, or both, for multispecies fisheries. The topics covered include ecological, economic, social and governance objectives in fisheries management, consistent...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem-based fisheries management; Multiple objectives; Reference points; Sustainability; Variability.
Ano: 2017
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00381/49262/49838.pdf

Impact de l'aquaculture marine sur l'environnement : aspects juridiques et économiques
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Paquotte, Philippe.
Aquaculture is an economic activity which is characterised by a great dependence on environmental conditions. Therefore aquaculture development is subdued to institutional context which defines the rules for use and conservation of the environment. This paper analyses the impact of marine environment regulations on economic operating of aquaculture enterprises and on industrial dynamics. Because aquaculture enterprises use a collective good, an economic approach of aquaculture has to take into account not only the relations between enterprises and environment, but also the relations between the enterprises themselves, through production externalities. In this study, several economic tools are considered in order to incite enterprises to integrate pad of...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Development policies; Fiscal policies; Regulations; Environmental protection; Water; Environmental impact; Marine environment; Aquaculture; SEM; Durabilité; Politique de développement; Politique fiscale; Réglementation; Protection de l'environnement; Eau; Impact sur l'environnement; Milieu marin; Aquaculture.
Ano: 1994
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1994/publication-4018.pdf

Ecosystem accounting in support of the transition to sustainable societies – the case for a parsimonious and inclusive measurement of ecosystem condition
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Comte, Adrien; Kervinio, Yann; Levrel, Harold.
The development of ecosystem accounting systems at national levels to complete current wealth indicators with robust information on ecosystem degradation or enhancement is a crucial challenge, recognized in international strategies. However, the methodologies remain under development building, at the global level, on an experimental ecosystem accounting framework (the SEEA-EEA). Building on this framework and current academic discussions, this article aims at proposing a methodological advance for aligning the SEEA-EEA with the needs of ecosystem management and the principles of strong sustainability. It consists in structuring ecosystem condition measurement into a parsimonious and inclusive set of characteristics, indicators and reference levels with an...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Environmental accounting; Ecosystem accounting; SEEA-EEA; Sustainability; Ecosystem condition; Environmental standards; Biodiversity values.
Ano: 2020
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00631/74348/74000.pdf

Biodiversity offsetting: Clearing up misunderstandings between conservation and economics to take further action
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Vaissiere, Anne-charlotte; Levrel, Harold; Scemama, Pierre.
Biodiversity offsetting (BO) is increasingly adopted as a conservation tool by many countries while it has received several critics among which its possible links to several forms of Nature economicization. We believe that some of these concerns rest on misunderstandings generated by the difficulty to interpret economic principles from ecological viewpoints and the lack of a common language between conservationists and economists. Because this issue is vivid and the concepts not yet stabilized, key aspects of the potential advances and limits of BO to conservation practice must be clarified. This short communication (1) addresses the links between the BO concept and the central sustainability principle and (2) clarifies key assumptions regarding three...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity offsetting; Sustainability; Commodification; Marketization; Privatization; Ecological restoration.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00361/47215/47450.pdf

Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Bretagnolle, Vincent; Benoit, Marc; Bonnefond, Mathieu; Breton, Vincent; Church, Jon M.; Gaba, Sabrina; Gilbert, Daniel; Gillet, François; Glatron, Sandrine; Guerbois, Chloé; Lamouroux, Nicolas; Lebouvier, Marc; Mazé, Camille; Mouchel, Jean-marie; Ouin, Annie; Pays, Olivier; Piscart, Christophe; Ragueneau, Olivier; Servain, Sylvie; Spiegelberger, Thomas; Fritz, Hervé.
Many social-ecological system(SES)-based approaches have been proposed to address environmental problems. Most social-ecological frameworks developed to date, however, lack clear operational linkages between humans and nature to efficiently guide SESs toward resilience. A conceptual framework designed to be operational is therefore necessary, as well as a network of research platforms with which to apply it. We defined explicit coupling processes that can be used as leverages to pilot an SES toward sustainability. We proposed to formalize an SES as a dynamic entity composed of two coupling interfaces, i.e., adaptive management and ecosystem services, both set within a landscape context to provide an actionable framework. These interfaces describe the way...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Ecosystem services; Landscape; LTER; Management; Practices; Research infrastructure; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability.
Ano: 2019
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00588/70032/67950.pdf

Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) in fisheries: Implementation in EU fishing regions
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Malvarosa, Loretta; Murillas, Arantza; Lehuta, Sigrid; Nielsen, J. Rasmus; Macher, Claire; Goti, Leyre; Motova, Arina; Doering, Ralf; Haraldson, Gunnar; Accadia, Paolo; Hamon, Katell; Bastardie, Francois; Maravelias, Christos D.; Mardle, Simon; Thøgersen, Thomas.
An Impact Assessment (IA) is a process aimed at structuring and supporting the development of policies. Besides the fact that IA assumes different features when applied to different sectors, really it should help policy makers in evaluating the contribution to the fisheries sustainability of new regulations. The recent improvements and development around the IA methodologies go more and more toward the concept of a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA). The evolution of IA in the fishery sector has followed the general and increasing need in having a more and more integrated type of analysis, focusing on the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic and social). This paper synthesizes the methodology developed under the EU FP7 SOCIOEC...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Impact assessment; Fishery management; Effectiveness; Coherence; Acceptability; Sustainability.
Ano: 2019
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00474/58521/65966.pdf

The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: A global perspective
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Fonteneau, Alain; Fromentin, Jean-marc.
This communication presents a global overview of Atlantic bluefin tuna biology, exploitation and management. The comparison between bluefin tuna and all other tuna species do show that this species is ranking number one among other tunas world wide in a wide range of its resources and fisheries characteristics. Bluefin tuna is for instance the gold winner in the category of fisheries (about 10,000 years of documented fisheries, the highest price in the market, the largest tuna taken), of its peculiar biology (large migration, homing, growth, etc.) and in the category of risks presently faced by the resource, because of its multiple scientific uncertainties still pending, its increasingly serious statistical problems and the heavy political context in the...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Pêche; Durabilité; Pêche abusive; Migration; Caractéristique du cycle vital; Fisheries; Sustainability; Overfishing; Migration; Life history trait.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00194/30568/28995.pdf

The future is now: marine aquaculture in the anthropocene
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Pernet, Fabrice; Browman, Howard I.
Aquaculture now produces more seafood than wild capture fisheries and this production is expected to at least double by 2050. Representing almost half of global production, marine aquaculture will contribute to sustainably feeding the growing humanity. However, climate change will undoubtedly challenge the future growth of marine aquaculture. Temperature and sea-level rise, shifts in precipitation, freshening from glacier melt, changing ocean productivity, and circulation patterns, increasing occurrence of extreme climatic events, eutrophication, and ocean acidification are all stressors that will influence marine aquaculture. The objective of this themed article set was to bring together contributions on the broad theme of the potential impacts,...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Bivalve; Blue economy; Carbon; Climate change; Marine diseases; Mitigation; Ocean acidification; Plasticity; Salmon; Seaweed; Sustainability.
Ano: 2021
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00682/79406/81951.pdf

Sustainability of tropical small-scale fisheries: Integrated assessment in French Guiana
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Cisse, Abdoul; Blanchard, Fabian; Guyader, Olivier.
Like many tropical small-scale fisheries, the French Guiana coastal fishery is characterized by the high fish biodiversity of its ecosystem, the weak selectivity of the fleets exploiting the resources, and the heterogeneity of the vessels in terms of size and fishing techniques. The Rapfish method is used to assess sustainability within 11 fishery systems by means of 27 attributes relating to ecological, economic, social, and technological fields. Overall results indicate an average performance in the weak sustainability range. Comparisons made among the FSs show a gradient of sustainability performance from the western portion of the coast to the eastern portion. Several recommendations are formulated to raise the current “sustainability” status, such as...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: French Guiana; Small scale fishery; Sustainability; Rapfish; Ecosystem approach.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00162/27310/25662.pdf

Fishing effects and life history traits: a case study comparing tropical versus temperate tunas
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Fromentin, Jean-marc; Fonteneau, Alain.
This study aims to test whether exploitation affects tunas and tuna-like species displaying contrasting life history traits similarly. We first collected information on life history of 10 commercial Atlantic species and then compared this information using multivariate analysis. On one hand, tropical tunas are characterised by small to medium size, rapid growth, early age-at-maturity, long spawning duration and short life span. These species, therefore, display a rapid turnover, characteristic of r-selected species. On the other hand, temperate tunas display differing life history traits, i.e., large size, slow growth, late age-at-maturity, short spawning duration and long life span. The turnover of these species is slow and present characteristics similar...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Management measures; Sustainability; Fishing; Long term fluctuations; Simulation modelling; Skipjack; Bluefin tuna.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2001/publication-434.pdf

Hare or Tortoise? Trade-offs in Recovering Sustainable Bioeconomic Systems
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Martinet, Vincent; Thebaud, Olivier; Rapaport, Alain.
In this paper, we develop a framework for (a) the study of sustainability of dynamic bioeconomic systems and (b) the definition of recovery paths from unsustainable situations. We assume that the system follows a sustainable trajectory if it evolves over time within a set of multidimensional constraints. We use the mathematical concept of viability to characterize sustainability. Recovery paths are studied with regards to their duration and their acceptability. This general framework is applied to the issue of recovering sustainable fisheries. We define sustainability in a fishery as the requirement that a set of economic, ecological, and social constraints is satisfied at all times. Recovery paths are characterized by the time required to obtain...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Recovery strategies; Multicriteria approach; Optimal and viable control; Bioeconomic modeling; Fisheries economics.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00016/12715/9654.pdf

Comment la stratégie MMEY atténue les effets bio-économiques du changement climatique dans les pêcheries mixtes
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Lagarde, Adrien; Ahad-cisse, Abdoul; Gourguet, Sophie; Le Pape, Olivier; Thebaud, Olivier; Caill-milly, Nathalie; Morandeau, Gilles; Macher, Claire; Doyen, Luc.
This paper examines the effect of climate warming on the bio-economic performance of Bay of Biscay mixed fisheries and provides insights into the best management strategy for coping with global warming. To achieve this, a dynamic multi-species, multi-class, multi-fleets model is developed and calibrated using biological and environmental ICES and IPCC data. Fishing and economic data have been collected within the European DCF. The climate represented by the Sea Surface temperature is assumed to affect species recruitment. Three management strategies are then compared in terms of bio-economic outcomes: Status-Quo (SQ), Multi-species Maximum Sustainable Yield (MMSY), Multispecies Maximum Economic Yield (MMEY). Strategies are ranked with respect to two...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Bio-économique; Scénarios; Changement climatique; Pêcheries; Soutenabilité; Golfe de Gascogne; Bio-economics; Scenarios; Global warming; Fisheries; Sustainability; Bay of Biscay.
Ano: 2017
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00637/74884/75282.pdf

Visualizing the social in aquaculture: How social dimension components illustrate the effects of aquaculture across geographic scales
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Krause, Gesche; Billing, Suzannah-lynn; Dennis, John; Grant, Jon; Fanning, Lucia; Filgueira, Ramón; Miller, Molly; Perez, Jose; Stybel, Nardine; Stead, Selina M.; Wawrzynski, Wojciech.
Until very recently, governments of many countries, as well as their supporting organizations, have primarily addressed the biological, technical and economic aspects of aquaculture. In contrast, social and cultural aspects of aquaculture production have taken a backseat. Drawing on the observation that aquaculture development in Western Societies has largely failed to address these social effects across different scales and contexts, this paper offers a new way of capturing and visualising the diverse social dimensions of aquaculture. It does so by testing the ability to operationalise a set of social dimensions based on categories and indicators put forward by the United Nations, using several case studies across the North Atlantic. Local/regional...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Social dimensions; Aquaculture; Indicators; Operationalisation; Sustainability; Finfish production; Mussel farming.
Ano: 2020
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00630/74170/73770.pdf

Sustainable management of natural capital for rural development
Provedor de dados: 19
Autores: Kawata, Yukichika; 河田, 幸視.
2008年帯広農村開発教育国際セミナーシンポジウム｢農業と地球環境問題に関する持続的開発のための教育」講演資料
Palavras-chave: Conservation; Gordon-Schaefer model; Natural capital; Non-consumptive use; Sustainability.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/2519

小規模な教育プロジェクトの大学／NGO の協力：ミャンマーの孤児院のための財政支援や生活を向上させます
Provedor de dados: 19
Autores: SMITH, Marshall; スミス, マーシャル.
Bethel Children’s Home (BCH) is an orphanage, established in 2002 in Myanmar, for orphans, semiorphansfrom underprivileged families, and abandoned children. At the time of initiating this project for BCH, there were 22 children ranging from 5 to 18 years of age living there under the care of house parents. Originally supported by a US aid organization, BCH found it increasingly difficult to operate financially due to the accelerating Myanmar economy driving up the Myanmar currency and commodity prices. Thus, a 5-year project was proposed by the author, in January 2013, to help BCH become financially stable and self-sufficient. The ongoing project entails utilizing the land around BCH for implementing economic activities such as raising milk cows and...
Palavras-chave: Myanmar; Orphanage; Self-supporting; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/4202

Coastal aquaculture development in Eastern Africa and the western indian ocean:prospects and problems for food security and local economies
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Ronnback, P.; Bryceson, I.; Kautsky, N.
This paper reviews the experience and status of coastal aquaculture of seaweeds, mollusks, fish and crustaceansin eastern Africa and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. In many respects, coastal aquaculture is still in itsinfancy in the region, and there is a pressing need toformulate development strategies aimed at improving theincome and assuring the availability of affordable protein tocoastal communities. This paper also draws from positive and negative experiences in other parts of the world. Therequirements of feed and fry, and the conversion ofmangroves are used to illustrate how some aquacultureactivities constitute a net loss to global seafood production.The paper presents both general and specific sustainability guidelines based on the...
Tipo: Journal Contribution
Palavras-chave: Coastal aquaculture; Sustainability.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/725

Proceedings of the INCO-DEV International Workshop on Policy Options for the Sustainable Use of Coral Reefs and Associated Ecosystems
Provedor de dados: 20
The present report contains the proceedings of the INCO-DEV International Workshop on “Policy Options for the Sustainable Use of Coral Reefs and Associated Ecosystems” convened in Mombasa, Kenya, 19-22 June 2000. It was convened to address issues associated with the ongoing degradation of coral reefs and associated ecosystems. This degradation takes place inspite of an impressing body of research results and and increasing number of technical solutions becoming available. Policy options for the sustainable use are only feasible if they allow reconciling the requirements of conservation with the economic and social demands of the people relying on these natural resources. By its very nature this challenge of managing coral reef ecosystems sustainably calls...
Tipo: Proceedings Paper
Palavras-chave: Coral reefs; Sustainability.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/293

La producción de jaiba suave y su incidencia en la sostenibilidad de la biodiversidad en la costa norte de Villa Clara
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Reyes Canino, R.; Siam, C.; Jiménez Hurtado, E.
En los últimos años, el recurso jaiba ha manifestado una significativa caída  en las capturas comerciales. Un inadecuado manejo en el esfuerzo pesquero, entre  otras influencias antrópicas, han incidido negativamente en la conservación de la  diversidad biológica en las áreas tradicionales de pesca. En el marco del Proyecto para  la protección del Ecosistema  Sabana-Camaguey (ESC), se fomentó una nueva forma  de explotar este recurso en su estado de “jaiba blanda o suave” que se potencia como  una viable alternativa de sostenibilidad así como una importante fuente de empleo y  divisas.  Este estudio  expone los resultados de la pesca exploratoria de jaiba en los   últimos años en la costa norte de Vila Clara, así como información estadística de las...
Tipo: Preprint
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Swimming; Sustainability.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/4183

Cambio climático,  sustentabilidad  y gobernanza
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Piñeiro, R.; Areces, J. A.; Salinas, E.
L as transformaciones del ambiente han acelerado  a tiempos ecológicos los cambios que de otra  manera tendrían lugar en lapsos de escala  geológica; ello ha iniciado la era conocida  por diversos especialistas como Antropoceno. 1  La  crisis global asociada a esta situación ha dado lugar  al surgimiento en la comunidad científica de una  plataforma conceptual, no por consistente menos  debatida, sobre el signifcado y las dimensiones de la  sustentabilidad. En dicha plataforma adquieren espacio  teorizaciones acerca de los ecosistemas,la economía  ambiental,la geografía,la sociología y la ciencia  cívica.
Tipo: Journal Contribution
Palavras-chave: Environmental conditions; Climatic changes; Sustainability; Sustainable management; Environment management.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/5223

Namibia &amp; Botswana: Country Report
Provedor de dados: 20
This study is part of an evaluation of DFID’s support for sustainable agriculture (SA) since the early 1990s. Five projects were reviewed, representing around 75% by value of DFID project commitments to SA during the 1990s: Namibia • Kavango Farming Systems Research and Extension (KFSRE) • Northern Namibia Environmental Project (NNEP) • Fisheries Information Advisory Services (FIAS) Botswana • Botswana Range Inventory Management Project (BRIMP) • Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Section (VEES)
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Sustainable agriculture; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33561.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/395

Sustainability of the Benguela: ex Africa semper aliquid novi
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Shannon, L.V.; O’Toole, M.J.
The Benguela Current ecosystem is situated along the coast of south western Africa, stretching from east of the Cape of Good Hope, in the south, northwards into Angola waters and encompassing the full extent of Namibia’s marine environment. It is one of the four major coastal upwelling ecosystems of the world which lie at the eastern boundaries of the oceans. Like the Humboldt, California and Canary systems, the Benguela is an important centre of marine biodiversity and marine food production. Its distinctive bathymetry, hydrography, chemistry and trophodynamics combine to make it one of the most productive ocean areas in the world, with a mean annual primary productivity of 1.25 kilograms of carbon per square metre per year—about six times higher than the...
Tipo: Book Section
Palavras-chave: Ecosystems; Sustainability.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/396

Kenya Country Report
Provedor de dados: 20
At the start of the 1990s, DFID support to sustainable agriculture mainly comprised a series of projects which supported GoK’s national agricultural research and communications services. DFID support for district level agriculture service delivery activities, principally through the EMI project, had recently ceased, although with the expectation that further support would be developed. In response to a DFID (EA) policy decision to withdraw from infrastructure development, support for construction of rural infrastructure had also wound down. 2. Following the death of the Senior RNR Adviser for Kenya in 1992, development of the SA portfolio drifted until 1994, when appointment of a new Senior RNR Adviser was rapidly followed by approval of several projects,...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Sustainable agriculture; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33561.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/385

Contribution of Cameroon: An outlook of Cameroon's coastal zone
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Keumejio, E.D.
Like all coastal zones, the cameroonian coast is a complex and diversified environment, controlled by atmospherice, marine and terrestrial phenomena. This diversity is a result of natural changes, human activities, and even the diversity of resources. Coastal zone falls among the most productive ecosystems in the biosphere; they possess specific attributes from which socio-economic development can either benefit, or suffer. Thus their harmfulness is a commensurate with their potentials. In effect, these zones are often subjected to chaotic, and even destructive exploitation wich tends generally to off set the ecological equilibria.
Tipo: Proceedings Paper
Palavras-chave: Coastal zone; Sustainability.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/305

Sustainability of Development and Management Actions in Two Community Fisheries Centres in The Gambia.
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Satia, B.P.; Hansen, L.S.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Fishermen; Sustainability.
Ano: 1994
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/893

Estado de situación de los recursos pesqueros del Golfo San Matías, sus pesquerías, especies asociadas y ambiente: informe ad hoc para la evaluación preliminar de las pesquerías marinas de Río Negro con vistas a la certificación de su sustentabilidad
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Coller, M.; Osovnikar, P.; Narvarte, M.; Perier, R.; González, R.A.; Di Giácomo, E.; Morsan, E.M.; Braicovich, P.; Curtolo, L.; Ocampo, M.
Se realiza una sinopsis del estado de situación de los recursos pesqueros del Golfo San Matías, de sus pesquerías y especies asociadas a las mismas y del ecosistema marino. El objetivo de este informe es presentar información histórica y actualizada sobre los recursos pesqueros y las pesquerías marinas de Río Negro, a los fines de su empleo como guía de análisis para la evaluación de las mismas con vistas a la potencial certificación de una gestión sustentable de las mismas a partir de los estándares del Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Se presenta información sobre la organización y estructura del sector institucional y del marco legal en el que se desarrolla la actividad. Se desarrolla una caracterización de las pesquerías a partir de diferentes...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Fishery resources; Fishery management; Clam fisheries; Coastal fisheries; Biodiversity; Environments; Associated species; Yield; Potential yield; Fishery regulations; Certification; Standards; Sustainability; Fishing fleet; Fishery management; Certification; Fishery resources; Coastal fisheries; Biodiversity; Sustainability.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/3719

ACP-EU Fisheries Research Initiative Workshop
Provedor de dados: 20
A three day scientific conference on ‘Sustainable Use of Aquatic Biodiversity: Data, Tools and Cooperation’ was held from 3-5 September 1998 at the Instituto de Investição das Pescas e do Mar (IPIMAR) in Lisbon, Portugal, under the auspices of the ACP-EU Fisheries Research Initiative and the European Commission (DG VIII). The conference aimed at bringing together researchers, conservationists, fisheries managers, educators and decision makers, to gain a better and joint understanding of aquatic biodiversity issues and in particular to explore data gathering and sharing mechanisms and cooperative arrangements to address these issues. Over 100 participants from 28 countries contributed to the conference: mostly from Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific and...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Sustainability.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/881

Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Resource Use and Management Within Multiple Use Marine Protected Areas
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Senaratna, S.
Multiple Use Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have emerged as an important mechanism in the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. This study investigates whether there are common factors that enhance or constrain the sustainability of resource use and management within the MPAs. A comparative analysis of resource use patterns and associated socio-economic, socio-political, and institutional factors was carried out in four MPAs: Hikkaduwa Nature Reserve (Sri Lanka), Mafia Island Marine Park (Tanzania), Hon Mun Marine Protected Area (Vietnam), and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Australia). In this investigation a simple analytic framework was used. This was broadly based on a framework developed by the Sustainable Use Specialist Group...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Marine parks; Protected areas.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/343

Living Planet Report 2000
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Jakubowska, J.; Jenkins, M.; Gaillard, V.; Groombridge, B.
At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders committed themselves to the goal of sustainable development. The term sustainable development has since entered into everyday language, and yet it remains an elusive concept. Indeed, it is now used by governments, industry, and non-governmental organizations to mean almost anything they want it to mean. However, in truth, it is a very simple idea. Before the Rio Summit, WWF, along with our partner organizations IUCN–The World Conservation Union and UNEP, published Caring for the Earth, a report subtitled “A strategy for sustainable living”. We defined sustainable development as “improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems”, and this definition...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Sustainable development; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35332.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/536

Atributos físicos e estoques de carbono do solo sob diferentes usos da terra em Rondônia, Amazônia Sul-Ocidental
Provedor de dados: 190
Autores: Mascarenhas, Adriano Reis Prazeres; Volpato Sccoti, Marta Silvana; Melo, Rafael Rodolfo; Corrêa, Fernando Luíz de Oliveira; de Souza, Emanuel Fernando Maia; Andrade, Reginaldo Almeida; Bergamin, Anderson Cristian; Müller, Manfred Willy.
Objetivou-se estudar o comportamento dos atributos físicos e dos teores e estoques de carbono do solo em sistema agroflorestal multiestratificado (SAF), comparativamente a diferentes modalidades de uso solo, sendo elas o cultivo de cacaueiro sob manejo agroecológico (CAC), pastagem cultivada (PAS) e floresta nativa (FLN). A área de estudo localiza-se na estação experimental da CEPLAC em Ouro do Preto do Oeste, RO. Nos quatro tratamentos foram instaladas, ao acaso, cinco parcelas de 20 m x 30 m. Nessas parcelas, foram coletadas amostras de solo indeformadas e deformadas nas profundidades de 0 a 20 cm e 20 a 40 cm, para determinação dos atributos fiscos e estoque de carbono no solo. Os valores de densidade do solo no SAF, CAC e PAS apresentaram-se elevados e...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Recursos Florestais  Qualidade Ambiental Agroecossistema; Física do solo; Sustentabilidade Agroecosystems; Soil physics; Sustainability.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://pfb.cnpf.embrapa.br/pfb/index.php/pfb/article/view/1295

Imazaquin sorption in surface and subsurface soil samples
Provedor de dados: 86
Autores: Oliveira,Maurílio Fernandes de; Prates,Hélio Teixeira; Santanna,Derli Prudente; Oliveira Júnior,Rubem Silvério de.
The objective of this work was to study the sorption and desorption of imazaquin, in surface and subsurface soil samples from Brazil. Sorption and desorption steps were carried out using batch equilibration and high performance liquid chromatography analytical routines. The value of Kf,ads was positively correlated with clay content, and negatively correlated with pH of supernatant. Samples from Typic Haplustox, clayey soil profile having high clay content, provided higher Kf,ads values, and negative correlation with organic carbon, silt content, cation exchange capacity and pH.
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Retention; Desorption; Oxisol; Sustainability.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2006000300013

Weed Occurrence in Sugarcane as Function of Variety and Ground Straw Management1
Provedor de dados: 87
Autores: CONCENÇO,G.; LEME FILHO,J.R.A.; SILVA,C.J.; MARQUES,R.F.; SILVA,L.B.X.; CORREIA,I.V.T.
ABSTRACT This study aims to verify the effect of crop varietal architecture and straw removal from planting rows in the occurrence of weeds in sugarcane and infer about the sustainability of the production system with no herbicide application. The experiment was established in 2011 in a randomized block design with split plots and four replications. Main plots were varieties IACSP95 5000 and SP91 1049. In the sub-plots there the straw removal was allocated (evenly scattered in the area, or concentrated in inter-rows). Assessments were conducted in 2012 and 2013 and the absolute levels of infestation, density, frequency and dominance of weed species were obtained. Areas were intra-characterized by the coefficients of Simpson and Shannon-Weiner and...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Saccharum spp.; Phytosociology; Sustainability.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-83582016000200219

Macroeconomics and Forest Sustainability in the Developing World
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sedjo,   Roger A.
Governments often use fiscal, exchange rate, monetary policy as well as export promotion tax increases, privatization, and land reform as part of comprehensive adjustments packages for addressing economic imbalances, balance of payments, and structural weaknesses. Such approaches, however, have come under heavy criticism for failing to recognize the social and environmental costs associated with them. Critics have argued that economic growth, trade liberalization, and increased primary product exports increase pressure on many sectors, including the agricultural and forestry land use sectors. This paper examines a number of these types of external shocks. This paper makes two arguments. First, from a theoretical economic perspective, although in many cases...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Forests; Sustainability; Macroeconomics; Trade; Exchange rates; Structural adjustment; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10458

Consumers' Perception of Sustainably Produced Food: The case of local and organic production technologies
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Whorton,   Carly S.; Amanor-Boadu,   Vincent.
This paper identifies ways to improve on the current literature regarding sustainable production technologies, in this case, organic and local products. A survey method is used to examine organic and local markets in place of a single product to gain a better understanding of consumers‟ response to these products, their reactions to price differences of these products, and how their preferences change based on changing income level and prices. The sample was drawn from a commercial database and was attempted to be made random across the U.S. population. In place of results, hypotheses are presented as data were late coming back.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer preferences; Sustainability; Organic; Local; Willingness to value; Agribusiness; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99738

CERTIFICATION ON SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BIOFUEL SECTOR: a case study on Brazilian ethanol
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zezza,   Annalisa.
This paper tries to identify under which conditions voluntary certification could be an answer to the governance of sustainability at global level. The study addresses the case of biofuel sustainability certification in Brazil and the role of the EU Directive on biofuels. The case study has permitted to identify and analyze some of these factors as the degree of dependence from foreign market, the policy environment, the structure of the supply chain, the benefits and costs associated to certification as well as some unintended consequences. The research has been conducted through a case study in the state of Sao Paolo (Brazil).
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Biofuel; Certification; Brazil; EU; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124112

GROWTH PATTERN, SUSTAINABILITY AND TRADE IN A LAND CONSTRAINED ECONOMY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Irz,   Xavier T.; Roe,   Terry L.
This paper develops a two-sector model of growth where agriculture is considered explicitly.  Key features of the model include: the reliance of agricultural production on a fixed but degrading resource base, the use by the farm sector of industrially produced inputs and differing rates of technological progress in the two sectors.  On the demand side, the low income elasticity for food as well as the life-sustaining function of food consumption are recognized. In this simplified framework, the sustainability of growth can be related to the existence of a steady state reflecting the ability of the economy to feed its population.  This property is used to identify the characteristics within and outside of agriculture conducive to the sustainability of a...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agriculture and growth; Dynamic general equilibrium model; International Development; O41; O13; F11.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21762

Towards a Genuine Sustainability Standard for Biofuel Production
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: de Gorter,   Harry; Tsur,   Yacov.
Sustainability standards for biofuel production calculated via life cycle accounting (LCA) require a certain reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to gasoline. Recently it has been shown that LCA gives biased results and should be extended to incorporate indirect land use change (iLUC). We show that even including iLUCs, LCA is still biased and distorted because it is based on GHG emission and uptake calculations, which assume economic values only if (i) the environmental price of carbon is constant over time and (ii) the social discount rate (SDR) equals zero. We offer a sustainability standard free of these restrictions, expressed in terms of a range of SDRs and a maximal GHG payback period. Applying our methodology to Brazilian and U.S....
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Biofuel Production; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48927

Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Clay,   Daniel C.; Reardon,   Thomas.
The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the environment, agriculture, and population; they do not explicitly take into account the compatibilities and inconsistencies among them. Farm households and their livelihood strategies are at the core of the intersectoral linkages approach advocated in this chapter. Three key aspects of the population-environment-development debate are discussed: first, the finding that inconsistencies between public and individual household behavior regarding childbearing and family planning...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Africa; Agriculture; Rwanda; Population; Sustainability; Environment; Food security; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Q56.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57055

Science, Politics, and U.S. Forest Law: The Battle over the Forest Service Planning Rule
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hoberg,   George.
This paper reviews the battles over the Forest Service planning rule that culminated in the November 2000 revising of the regulations implementing the National Forest Management Act. In a departure from the agency's emphasis on multiple use, the rule established ecological sustainability as the key objective guiding planning for the national forests. The supporting material explicitly states that "it is based on the recommendation of an eminent committee of scientists." This paper examines the Committee of Scientists and the NFMA rule as a case study in the relation between science and politics in the development and implementation of statutory standards for management of the National Forest System. The conclusion considerations the broader question of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Forest Service; Planning; National Forest Management Act; Committee of Scientists; Multiple use; Sustainability; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; K00; Q23; Q28.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10604

Can fishing tourism improve sustainability of fishing chain?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lai,   Maria Bonaria.
One environmental event verified during the last years in the Mediterranean sea is that the presence of tropical fishes is causing death of the original fauna. This has attracted the attention of not only the fishermen, but also that of the European Community and all of the associations (public and private) which work to preserve the environment. There are several initiatives to preserve the environment, and the “fermo biologico” is one of these. It tries to solve the Mediterranean fish’s depopulation problem, restricting the fishing in some period of the year. As known, the management of the biological resources is addressed to guarantee the environmental sustainability. This sustainability can be guaranteed by those who work in the fish sector, through...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Fishing tourism; Sustainability; Customer satisfaction; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119153

ANALYZING AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS AND IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CEECS AGRICULTURE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Singh,   Mahesh Kumar; Kapuszta,   Agnes; Fekete-Farkas,   Maria.
The agriculture has an outstanding importance both in social and economic point of view, especially in the countries where the agriculture plays a vital role in economy. This paper mainly focuses on the situation in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). The share of agriculture in CEECs is more significant both in GDP and employment than in the old member states of EU. To be competitive on the single market, we have to know the advantages and disadvantages, strength and weakness of different sectors of agriculture. Traditionally, in these countries to measure the effectiveness, the partial factor analyses are used. To get more accurate overview, we need to use more wide technique to sampling measurement. This paper summarizes the measurement...
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Effectiveness; Environment; Agricultural policy; Factor analysis; Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43317

The economic sustainability of cropping systems in Indian Punjab: A farmers' perspective
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Singh,   Sukhwinder; Park,   Julian R.; Litten-Brown,   Jennie.
Food for all continues to be a key issue, especially in the developing world where every fifth person is chronically undernourished. India, a fast growing developing country has also experienced serious food shortages for example in the mid 1960s. Punjab, a small northern Indian state has developed, particularly since the Green Revolution in the mid 1960s, to be a key agricultural area producing 13% of the food grains of India. Increased productivity brought economic benefits to farmers and led to the establishment of Wheat-Rice Cropping Pattern (WRCP) as the main agricultural system of Punjab which more recently has become reliant on underground water resources, agricultural machinery, chemical fertilisers and pesticides. More recently stagnating yields...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Cropping systems; Punjab; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116007

Sustainability in the Food Sector: A Consumer Behaviour Perspective
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Grunert,   Klaus G.
Consumers have, through their food choices, a major role in bringing about more sustainable food production. However, this presupposes that differences in sustainability are communicated to consumers. Even if food products are eco-labelled and consumers are motivated to support sustainability, a number of potential barriers may prevent consumers from using the information to make sustainable choices. Six such barriers are discussed in this paper.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Consumer behaviour; Hierarchy of effects; Eco-labels; Agribusiness; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121943

Analise das externalidades negativas no meio ambiente e sustentabilidade na agropecuária
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ponciano,   Niraldo Jose; Souza,   Paulo Marcelo de; Mata,   Henrique Tome Da Costa.
Objetivou-se analisar os efeitos das externalidades negativas no meio ambiente, abordar o Teorema de Coase no que se refere ao problema de definição dos direitos de propriedade. Adicionalmente, o trabalho explica a teoria econômica da externalidade e ilustra com exemplos. Descreve o comportamento econômico da externalidade na produção agropecuária e mostra de que modo ela cria ineficiência de mercado. Posteriormente, são avaliadas algumas medidas compensatórias para corrigir essas ineficiências. Nesse sentido, argumenta-se em favor da preservação ambiental como requisito básico da manutenção do desenvolvimento agrícola sustentado. Infere-se que modernização da agricultura brasileira teve importância fundamental para o crescimento econômico do País, apesar...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Externalidades; Modernização agropecuária; Sustentabilidade; Preservação ambiental.                       Externalities; Modernization farming; Sustainability; Environmental preservation.; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107855

Consumers’ attitude towards farmers’ markets in Tuscany
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rocchi,   Benedetto; Cavicchi,   Alessio; Baldeschi,   M.
Farmers Markets (FMs) around the world are often considered as one key response to the less sustainable conventional food production systems. Despite the economic crisis, international studies show that the most important factor leading people to buy fresh products in these points of sale is the quality. In fact, consumers usually cite “better food quality”, “locally produced foods”, “higher social interaction” and “learning directly about the vendors and their food production practices”, as the principal motivations in buying in FM environment. In this paper the results of a survey carried out in several FMs and shops in Tuscany are presented. A sample of consumers were interviewed on-site using a structured questionnaire. The attitude of respondent...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food miles; Sustainability; Short Food Supply Chain. 800822056; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95224

Sustainability in irrigated agriculture
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Svendsen,   Mark.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Irrigated farming; Agriculture; Irrigation efficiency; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 1987
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52782

Why farmers continue to use pesticides despite environmental health and sustainability costs
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wilson,   Clevo; Tisdell,   Clement A.
Use of chemical inputs such as pesticides have increased agricultural production and productivity.  However, negative externalities, too, have increased.  The externalities include damage to the environment, agricultural land, fisheries, fauna and flora.  Another major externality has been the unintentional destruction of beneficial predators of insects which has led to a virulence of many species of agricultural pests.  Mortality and morbidity among agricultural workers, especially in developing countries from exposure to pesticides, are also common.  The costs from these externalities are large and affect farmers’ returns.  However, despite these high costs, farmers continue to use pesticides and in increasing quantities.  In this paper, we examine this...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Pesticides; Agriculture; Environment; Human health; Sustainability; Hysteresis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48363

Environmental Conservation and Food Security in Developing Countries: Bridging the Disconnect
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ajayi,   Olu Clifford; Matakala,   Patrick.
In many developing countries, environmental issues are often sacrificed for immediate food production requirements because of perceived tradeoff between two.  Some production systems exist however that offers opportunities for achieving the two seemingly divergent objectives because they have the characteristics to produce joint outputs; food production and environmental conservation, but their adoption in farming communities is socially sub-optimal despite proven technological success.  Using natural resource economics framework, this study highlights the reasons for the low adoption of such technologies taking Agroforestry technologies as a case study and, uses externality theory to provide environmental economic logic for developing incentives to...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Externalities; Agricultural Policy; Agricultural technology; Sustainability; Ecosystem services; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25636

Environmental Indices for the Chinese Grain Sector
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chen,   Ming; Karp,   Larry S.
Increased population pressure and political decisions have led to more intensive agricultural practices in China. As in other regions of the world, these practices can damage natural capital We use the Kalman filter and Chinese panel data to estimate an index of environmental productivity (natural capital), together with the parameters of environmental dynamics and the production function. These estimates show that intensive practices are likely to have had persistent, substantial, and statistically significant negative effects on productivity. Ignoring these effects can cause substantial misallocation of resources. The results illustrate the possibility of estimating sectoral environmental indices using data commonly available.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Chinese agriculture; Dynamic production; Environmental indices; Sustainability; Kalman filter; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Productivity Analysis; QOl; Q21; C32; C43.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6259

MEETING THE KYOTO TARGET THROUGH CONSERVATION TILLAGE AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR NATURAL CAPITAL MAINTENANCE, PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY, AND SUSTAINABILITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Paudel,   Krishna P.; Lohr,   Luanne.
According to Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol, agricultural soil could be used as a sink for carbon sequestration and hence it may provide an alternative venue to sequester the greenhouse gas emission.  US plans to reduce the carbon emission amount by seven percent below the 1990 level within the target date of 2008-2012.  The major approaches to achieve the goal targeted by Kyoto Protocol in US are through fossil fuel tax and increasing forest area by afforestation.  This means fossil fuel price will increase which will have a direct impact to conventional tillage cost.  As a result farmers would be motivated to use less machinery operation in farming and hence may use conservation tillage in farming practices.  Rather than cause and effect relationship...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Kyoto protocol; Carbon sequestration; Natural capital; Production efficiency; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23812

Conservation Value
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tisdell,   Clement A.
This paper outlines the significance of the concept of conservation value and discusses ways in which it is determined paying attention to views stemming from utilitarian ethics and from deontological ethics. The importance of user costs in relation to economic decisions about the conservation and use of natural resources is emphasised. Particular attention is given to competing views about the importance of conserving natural resources in order to achieve economic sustainability. This then lends to a discussion of the value of conserving natural resources in order to meet the moral obligations of present generations to future generations. Anthropogenic views of the value of conserving natural resources (for example, derived from utilitarian ethics) are...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Anthropogenic values; Conservation value; Deontological ethics; Ecocentric values; Economic sustainability; Intergenerational equity; Natural resources; Neo-Malthusianism; Precautionary motive; Sustainability; Sustainable development; User costs; Utilitarian ethics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q01; Q20; Q30; Q50; Q51.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90879

A falusi turizmus helyzete és ökonómiai értékelése zempléni településekben
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Szabo,   Bernadett.
Zempléni települések helyzetét és falusi vendéglátóinak a tevékenységét 2002-ben és 2010-ben végzett mélyinterjúk és kérdőíves felmérések keretében vizsgáltam, amely lehetőséget adott a változások figyelemmel kísérésére. A vizsgált települések az utóbbi nyolc évben jelentősen fejlődtek a megvalósult infrastrukturális beruházásoknak köszönhetően. A térség jelentős turisztikai potenciált rejt magában,melynek hasznosítása azonban szerény. A vendégforgalom alakulása nem tükrözi az országos tendenciát, mert a gazdasági válság hatására nem emelkedett, hanem 40%-kal csökkent. A vendéglátók nincsenek tisztában a tevékenységgel kapcsolatban felmerülő költségekkel, nem ismerik a tevékenységüket érintő aktuális változásokat; a szállás mellett szegényes az étkeztetés...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Falusi turizmus; Ökofalvak; Fenntarthatóság; Zemplén; Rural tourism; Eco villages; Sustainability; Zemplén.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99184

Irrigation Restriction and Biomass Market Interactions: The Case of the Alluvial Aquifer
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Popp,   Michael P.; Nalley,   Lawton Lanier; Vickery,   Gina B.
The U.S. Geological Survey has determined that irrigation in Arkansas’ Delta is unsustainable. This study examines how irrigation restrictions would affect county net returns to crop production. It also considers the effect of planting less water-intensive bioenergy crops—switchgrass and forage sorghum—in the event biofuel markets become a reality. Results suggest that sustainable irrigation restrictions without bioenergy crops would decrease producer returns by 28% in the region. Introducing these alternative crops would both reduce groundwater use and may restore state producer returns, albeit with significant spatial income redistribution to crop production throughout the state.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Biomass crops; Ground water irrigation; Spatial income redistribution; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Financial Economics; Land Economics/Use; Political Economy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty; Q24; Q25; Q32; Q42; O13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57150

Inputs use in the agriculture of Emilia-Romagna: farm comparison through the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ghelfi,   Rino; Bertazzoli,   Aldo; Marchi,   Alan; Rivaroli,   Sergio; Samoggia,   Antonella.
In order to measure agriculture sustainability, the efficient use of inputs becomes a crucial issue. In this perspective, the analysts concentrate their attention on the total factor productivity index (TFP). In this view, Lynam and Herdt (1989) proposed the TFP as a suitable assessment of the sustainability of single crops, of cropping systems or of farming systems. Even if the TFP does not take into account the non-market output (social and environmental aspects), it is possible to argue that a negative trend of TFP represents a resources’ degradation if related to the generated outputs. On the other hand, the non-negative trend of TFP represents a fitting measure of a sustainable agricultural system and of an efficient use of the resources. The aim of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Total Factor Productivity; Sustainability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109322

A megújuló és a fosszilis energiahordozók szerepe Magyarországon
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Magda,   Robert.
A magyar gazdaság energiaszükségletében meghatározóak a fosszilis eredetű tüzelőanyagok – kőolaj, földgáz, kőszén, illetve ezek származékai –, amelyek kimerülőben vannak, így növelik függőségünket, károsítják környezetünket. Ezért fokozott figyelmet kell fordítani az alternatív energiaforrásokra, amelyekről ma még az a véleményünk, hogy kimeríthetetlenek, kevésbé károsítják Földünket. A kutatók számára ma az jelent feladatot, hogy ezen erőforrások felhasználásának korlátait felkutassák, feltárják. Az előrelépés egyik tényezője a finanszírozásban keresendő, mert annak ellenére, hogy mintegy évtizede az aktuális kormányok folyamatosan hirdetik részarányuk növelésének szükségességét, a megfelelő – a társadalom nagy többsége számára elérhető – támogatási...
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Fosszilis és megújuló energiahordozók; Szűkösség; Fenntarthatóság; Fossil and renewable resources; Scarcity; Sustainability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119897

Testing environmental and health pesticide use risk indicators. The case of potato production in Boyacá, Colombia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Feola,   Giuseppe; Rahn,   Eric; Binder,   Claudia R.
Tropentag 2010 ETH Zurich, September 14 - 16, 2010 Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Pesticide risk; Indicators; Sustainability; Health; Environment; Colombia; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Health Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117650

The Sustainability and Cost-Effectiveness of Water Storage Projects on Canterbury Rivers: The Opihi River Case
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hearnshaw,   Edward J.S.; Cullen,   Ross.
There is an increasing demand for water resources in the Canterbury region. The impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows, which has resulted in adverse affects to river ecology. In an effort to resolve this problem water storage projects have gained considerable attention. However, in order to consider all values of the impact of water storage projects, a systematic way of implementing an ecosystem services approach is developed. This ecosystem services approach coupled with various appropriate analytical methods are developed for the purposes of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water storage projects and the sustainability of river systems impacted by water storage projects. For the purposes of evaluating the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Cost utility analysis; Ecosystem services; Ecosystem services index; Indicators; Sustainability; Water storage projects; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97265

Continuing the Tradition: Employing Tested and Emerging Economic Tools in Framing Sustainability Challenges for a Global Economy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Amanor-Boadu,   Vincent; Ross,   R. Brent.
Economists have been successful in bringing their definitional and analytical tools to many of the problems that have confronted society over the past century and more, from Smith’s explanation of how nations produce wealth to Arrow’s explanation of the impossibility of social choice and Keynes’ general theory of money and interest. With the issue of sustainability, we draw on economic agents’ attempts at rational choice under uncertainty to understand the opportunities and challenges. We argue that employing system dynamic modeling approach to the problem could offer careful assessment of the soundness of sustainability strategies.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Adaptive Management; System Dynamic Modeling; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61619

The Triple Bottom Line: What is the Impact on the Returns to Agribusiness?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Detre,   Joshua D.; Gunderson,   Michael A.
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Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Event-study; Sustainability; Profitability; Corporate social responsibility; Dow Jones Sustainability Index; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Financial Economics; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117608

Sementes crioulas: o estado da arte no Rio Grande do Sul
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pelwing,   Andreia Becker; Frank,   Lucia Brandao; Barros,   Ingrid I. Bergman de.
This study investigated the state of the art of traditional, or landrace seeds in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. An ethnographic study was carried out by means of a non-statistical seed sampling in 13 farms from eight municipalities lying in the regions of the Greater Porto Alegre, Serra, Planalto Médio, Depressão Central and Serra do Sudeste. A broad diversity of ancient plants was observed. These species survive in the farms with the help of a seed bank. All in all, 39 plant species were characterized, distributed in 12 families, totaling 258 instances of landrace seeds grown in the farms visited. According to the farmers, the preference for landrace seeds is due chiefly to seed adaptability, better flavor and quality of the produce grown therefrom,...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Landrace seeds; Agrobiodiversity; Family agriculture; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Q20.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61244

An Implementable Index of Sustainability and Assessment of Energy Policy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sesmero,   Juan P.; Fulginiti,   Lilyan E.
Energy is a critical input in production and the main sources of energy in modern economies are exhaustible. Therefore sustaining aggregate consumption across generations requires reduction of the quantity of energy used per unit of output. Energy policies incentivize the deployment of new technologies that will not only increase energy efficiency but also impact the ease with which capital and materials can substitute for energy and hence the ability of societies to sustain consumption. Therefore an assessment of the impact of energy policies on sustainable consumption requires accounting for the link between technological progress and substitutability. We first allow for biased technical change and find that capital augmenting technical change (e.g....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Non-renewable energy; Sustainability; Viability theory; Biased technical change; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61637

Földhasználat és fenntarthatóság
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Magda,   Robert.
A jelen kor legfontosabb problémája, hogy hogyan és miként kezeljük azt a válságot, melynek jelei egyes elemzők szerint már két éve, de kézzel foghatóan is közel egy éve jelen vannak a mindennapjainkban. Egy olyan helyzetről van szó, ami érinti a világ minden országát, az élet minden területét, ezért elengedhetetlen vizsgálni azokat a lehetőségeket, melyek kiutat jelenthetnek ebből a helyzetből. Ez természetesen rendkívül összetett feladat, társadalmi, gazdasági és ökológiai vonatkozásai miatt. A megoldás keresése is komplexitást igényel. Jelen tanulmányban azt mutatjuk be, hogy milyen a földhasználat ebben a különösen kritikus időszakban, illetve melyek lehetnek azok a formái, amelyek elősegíthetik a kiút megtalálását, mind¬amellett, hogy közben...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Földhasználat; Fenntarthatóság; Válság; Korlátozottság; Oktatás; Land use; Sustainability; Crisis; Limitations; Education; Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99081

Flood risk – Prevention and Impact on Agricultural Lands
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wagner,   Klaus; Neuwirth,   Julia; Janetschek,   Hubert.
Recent extreme weather events have resulted in an ongoing discussion on the issues of land use and compensation payments within Austrian agriculture. Building on a functional evaluation system for agricultural lands as developed within the Interreg IIIB project “ILUP”, the national project “Agriculture and Flooding” has as its goal to classify the flood-protection contribution and flood sensitivity of agricultural lands. This, in turn, enables the recommendation of targeted measures for potentially improving flood situations, as well as an estimate of their implementation costs. In addition to the digital soil map, other fundamental sources used for the project are the digital flood risk map, IACS land-use data and works by the Institute for Land and Water...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Multifunctionality; Sustainability; Flood Risk; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q24; Q25; Q54; Q56.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50942

Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Farzin,   Y. Hossein.
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general “zero-net-aggregate-investment” condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense of the maximin criterion of intergenerational justice is too demanding to be practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to the rich advanced industrial countries, but is too costly and ethically unreasonable for developing nations as it would act as an intergenerational “poverty equalizer”. The paper suggests that a compromise development policy that follows the optimal growth approach but...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Intergenerational equity; Optimality; Discounting; Development policy; International Development; Q01; Q56; O21; O13; D62; D63.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7447

TOURISM DEVELOPMENTAS A SUSTAINABLE RURAL ACTIVITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Csete,   Maria.
The subject of the analysis is the Lake Tisza region. This region was chosen because it is rich in natural values coupled with economic and social problems and a significant Romani population, making it suitable for the complex evaluation of interdependences.  I am investigating the contribution of development to sustainability, taking into account the local connections and interactions between sustainability, climate change and tourism. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possible role of tourism in sustainable rural development and outline an adaptation portfolio accordingly.  A questionnaire-based survey was carried out from June to December 2008 to highlight the major uncertainties in the practical implementation of local sustainability in...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Climate change; Tourism development; Sustainable rural activities; Local adaptation portfolio; Fenntarthatóság; Klímaváltozás; Turizmusfejlesztés; Fenntartható vidéki tevékenység; Helyi alkalmazkodási portfolió; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99213

Erdőgazdálkodás és erdőtörténet
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Solymos,   Rezso.
Az erdőgazdálkodás az erdők fenntartásának, művelésének, sokoldalú, tartamos hasznosításának az alapja. A Föld lakosságának gyarapodásával a történelem folyamán együtt növekedett az embernek az erdővel szemben támasztott igénye. Az igények kielégítésekor hamarosan kitűnt, hogy ezek teljesítésének lehetőségei szigorúan behatároltak. Hosszú távon, tartamosan (fenntarthatóan) akkor nyújthatja az erdő a gazdasági, társadalmi élet számára a legtöbbet, ha az adottságainak megfelelően gazdálkodnak. A Föld erdeinek jelenlegi képe több évezredes fejlődés, valamint emberi beavatkozás eredményeként alakult. A jelenlegi felfogás szerinti „korszerű” erdőgazdálkodás az egyes kontinenseken különböző időben, alig egy-két évszázada jött létre. Abban az esetben azonban, ha...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Erdőgazdálkodás; Fenntarthatóság; Történeti tanulságok; Természeti törvények; Erdőtársulások; Forestry; Sustainability; Historical lessens; Natural laws; Forest associations; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92423

Food Safety and Sustainability: The Case of the New Organizational Arrangements between Rural Producers and Consumers of Organic Products in Japan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Takitane,   Izabel Cristina; Silva,   Tania Nunes da; Pedrozo,   Eugenio Avila.
The relationship between consumers and producers is changing, and has impacted governments, organizations, production, and the agribusiness. New standards in food consumption, with a strong emphasis on safety food and production sustainability have becoming worries for these agencies. The Seikatsu Club Consumer's Cooperative (SCCC), case study focused in this paper, can help spread these concepts, improving the relationship with the natural environment. In Japan, this type of cooperative has new contractual arrangements between rural producers and final consumers, called Teikei System, that it was build from of a trusty commitment of them. A brief history of Japanese immigration in Brazil and their large contribution to the Brazilian agriculture...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Network consumers-rural producers; Organics food consumption; Japan; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24269

Viabilidade econômica da cafeicultura da agricultura familiar na Zona da Mata de Minas Gerais
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Teixeira,   Sonia Milagres; Caixeta,   Gloria Zelia Teixeira; Donzele,   Sergio Mauricio Lopes.
O projeto verificou a viabilidade econômica da cafeicultura de agricultores familiares com vistas à inserção no mercado de cafés certificados. Focou sistemas de produção da cafeicultura da agricultura familiar de propriedades exploradas sob a forma convencional, não orgânica nos municípios de Araponga e Viçosa. Comparou os sistemas de produção segundo eficiência, qualidade, competitividade, eqüidade e sustentabilidade. Analisou os processos de produção, de comercialização e de gestão Os dados foram obtidos em visitas às propriedades. Para a quantificação e análise dos indicadores econômicos foram utilizadas metodologias de análises microeconômicas e estudos de casos. Os resultados foram organizados de forma tabular e gráfica. Esses permitiram verificar que...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Certificação; Cafeicultura orgânica; Cafeicultura convencional; Sustainability; Certification; Organic coffee crop; Conventional coffee crop; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107889

Sustainable food versus health concerns
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Avermaete,   T.; Mathijs,   Erik.
Simultaneous with the growing demand for sustainable food, statistics in all EU member states report consumption patterns that are characterized by too much fat, overdoses of sugar and a lack of fruits and vegetables. The streams of literature that investigate the factors influencing sustainable food consumption and healthy food consumption are largely separated. However, the question whether there is a positive relationship between consumer behaviour towards sustainable food and consumer behaviour towards healthy food remains largely unanswered. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the consumption of different types of sustainable food on the one hand, and healthy food patterns on the other. The study is based on a sample of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Food; Health; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44237

A fenntartható fejlődést szolgáló paradigma
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Meszaros,   Sandor.
Az uralkodó neoklasszikus paradigma alapján a 20. század második felében a gazdasági növekedés a várható klímaváltozás, a Föld természeti erőforrásai és a társadalmi egyenlőtlenségek figyelembevétele nélkül ment végbe. Erre a helyzetre szolgált válaszul a fenntarthatóság koncepciója, amely az utóbbi két évtizedben globális mozgalommá vált, és nemzeti alkalmazkodási stratégiák kidolgozásához vezetett. A gazdaság működésére azonban igazán új paradigma mégsem született, bár a köz¬gazdaságtan a komplexitás irányába látszik fejlődni. Az új (transzdiszciplináris) paradigma eddigi hiánya ellenére a szükséges változások irányai már felismerhetők: a fosszilis energiaforrások mielőbbi helyettesítése és az erdőgazdaság kiemelt kezelése (Low Carbon Economy), valamint...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Gazdasági paradigmák; Fenntarthatóság; Klímaváltozás; Globalizáció; Modellezés; Economic paradigms; Sustainability; Climate change; Globalisation; Modelling; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99116

Water flows up; Excerpts from the Proceedings of a Ministerial Roundtable Dialogue on Water-Sector Challenges, Policies and Institutional Development in Asia (Bangkok, Thailand, 22-23 May 2002)
Provedor de dados: 31
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Water resource management; River basins; Governance; Planning; Water policy; Private investment; Political aspects; Equity; Sustainability; Social aspects; Economic aspects; Irrigated farming; Water use; Irrigation water; Institutional development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Political Economy; Public Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118401

The sustainability of small dairy farms in six regions of France. The roles of resources and local institutions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mundler,   Patrick; Jauneau,   Jean-Claude; Guermonprez,   Bruno; Pluvinage,   Jean.
A survey of more than 150 small dairy farms and local economic, professional and political stakeholders was conducted in six regions of France. It revealed five types of farm strategy in relation to the farm’s size, agricultural diversification, importance of direct selling, and farm and household incomes. A “resource-based” approach shows that the sustainability of small farms is linked to economic, social and human resources. In this way the study shows the important part played by the household’s income and the farmer’s integration in the social fabric. This approach is complemented by an institutional approach: The sustainability of a small farm depends on local economic, professional and political institutions and an important role is played by the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Small dairy farms; Sustainability; Resources; Territorial institutions; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Q12; Q18; R10; R58.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52820

A helyi akciócsoportok működése egy országos felmérés tükrében
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kiss,   Krisztian; Szekeresne,   Koteles Rita.
A tanulmányban kérdőíves felmérésünk eredményeire támaszkodva bemutatjuk a 2007-ben megalakult LEADER HACS-ok fontosabb működési jellemzőit. Országos felmérésünkből kiderül, hogy nincsen hagyománya, gyakorlata a fejlesztésekben való együttműködésnek, holott a helyi program végrehajtása nagymértékben múlik a helyi társadalom felkészültségén, az emberek és szervezetek együttműködésén. A HACS-ok által lefedett térségek fejlődését több vonatkozásban a humán erőforrások, a vidéki emberek és közösségeik (az ún. szoft tényezők) hiányosságai gátolják, következésképpen sürgető a humán erőforrások fejlesztése is. A HACS-ok feladatuknak a támogatási források odaítélését tartják, ami fontos, de korántsem elégséges ahhoz, hogy a tőlük elvárt, a helyi vidékfejlesztési...
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Helyi akciócsoportok (HACS-ok); Szubszidiaritás; Együttműködés; Kapacitásépítés; Fenntarthatóság; Local Action Groups (LAG's); Subsidiarity; Cooperation; Capacity building; Sustainability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Public Economics.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119887

An analysis of the national strategies for sustainable development with special emphasis on the issues of agriculture and rural development
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gathy,   Andrea Bauer.
In this paper which is based on my dissertation I carried out a comprehensive analysis of the national strategies for sustainable development prepared by the EU and its member states. I paid special attention to agricultural and rural development issues discussed in the strategies. According to my hypothesis the sets of objectives defined in accordance with the principles of sustainable development provide a firm basis for the objectives of the ongoing reforms of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. Due to the complexity of the topic I applied an interdisciplinary approach in my research.
Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; National strategy for sustainable development; Evaluation; Agricultural issues; Rural development possibility; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48337

The Impact of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Crop Agriculture: A Spatial- and Production-Level Analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nalley,   Lawton Lanier; Popp,   Michael P.; Fortin,   Corey.
With the Waxman-Markey Bill passing the House and the administration’s push to reduce carbon emissions, the likelihood of the implementation of some form of a carbon emissions policy is increasing. This study estimates the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the six largest row crops produced in Arkansas using 57 different production practices predominantly used and documented by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. From these GHG emission estimates, a baseline state “carbon footprint” was estimated and a hypothetical GHG emissions reduction of 5, 10, and 20 percent was levied on Arkansas agriculture using a cap-and-trade method. Using current production technology and traditional land use choices, results show that the trading of...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Greenhouse gas emissions; Carbon equivalents; Sustainability; Cap and trade; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107092

ANÁLISE DA SUSTENTABILIDADE DA PRODUÇÃO DE BIODIESEL NO BRASIL
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Santos Junior,   Silvio; Dias,   Marcelo Fernandes Pacheco; Mendonca,   Erica Silva; Rosa,   Nadir Paula Da; Silva,   Tania Nunes da.
Muitos compostos químicos são encontrados na atmosfera terrestre atuando como “gases de efeito estufa”. Eles são importantes uma vez que impedem a reflexão total dos raios solares, Entretanto, os níveis de alguns desses gases, principalmente o gás carbônico (CO2), vem aumentando a uma taxa de 25% desde o processo de industrialização em larga escala, iniciado a 150 anos atrás. Nos últimos 20 anos o CO2 vem correspondendo a 84% dos gases provenientes das atividades humanas, e, 82% dele é resultante da queima de combustíveis fósseis. Considerando que o aumento da população e o surgimento de novas tecnologias continuam demandando energia de forma incremental, é imperativo a busca de soluções energéticas alternativas, mais sustentáveis. Neste contexto, a...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Biocombustível; Sustentabilidade; Recursos naturais; Soja; Biofuel; Sustainability; Natural Resources; Soybeans; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109812

SUSTAINABILITY IN FOOD NETWORKS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fritz,   Melanie; Schiefer,   Gerhard.
Sustainability in food networks has become a dominant issue in the development of the food sector in light of the challenging scenarios one might expect in the future. Products, enterprises, chains, consumers, and regions are all affected by this discussion. Environmental, social and economic pressures require the development of strategies on how to best meet the challenges and to move the sector with its global presence and its many SMEs towards a status which is sustainable and robust enough to remain so even if future scenarios might deviate from today’s expectations (dynamic sustainability). The paper outlines a framework for research on sustainability developments, sustainability assessments, consumer communication, and the transition of enterprises...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Food networks; LCA methodology; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52648

ANÁLISE REVISIONAL DE ESTUDOS DO CULTIVO DA MAMONA NA REGIÃO DOS INHAMUNS, NO ESTADO DO CEARÁ.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Moreira,   Jose Cesar Pontes; Mera,   Ruben Dario Mayorga; Mayorga,   Maria Irles De Oliveira.
O objetivo deste artigo é discutir estudos de casos realizados no interior do Ceará, na região dos Inhamuns, sobre o potencial produtivo da mamona. A partir de um estudo bilbiográfico de duas pesquisas realizadas em 2005 e 2006, buscou-se analisar o cultivo da mamona. Identificou-se através da consolidação dos resultados das duas pesquisas realizadas em três municípios na região dos Inhamuns que embora a produção de óleo de mamona não gere uma renda extra significativa para a agricultura familiar num cenário estático, o cultivo, o beneficiamento e a comercialização da oleaginosa se realizado de forma cooperativa e tecnicamente correta pode melhorar os resultados até então obtidos, ou mesmo, gerar uma renda maior para os pequenos e médios agricultores....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Mamona; Sustentabilidade; Oleaginosas; Biodiesel; Ceará; Castor seed; Sustainability; Oilseeds; Biodiesel; Ceará; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114125

SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS FOR IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT: CONCEPTS, METHODOLOGY, AND APPLICATION TO THE ARAL SEA REGION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cai,   Ximing; McKinney,   Daene C.; Rosegrant,   Mark W.
Sustainable irrigation water management should simultaneously achieve two objectives: sustaining irrigated agriculture for food security and preserving the associated natural environment. A stable relationship should be maintained between these two objectives now and in the future, while potential conflicts between these objectives should be mitigated through appropriate irrigation practices. Lessons learned from unsustainable water management practices around the world demonstrate the necessity—and growing urgency—of applying sustainability principles to water management in river basins where irrigation is a major factor. This paper presents the operational concepts and analytical framework for sustainability analysis of irrigation water management in...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Irrigation Water Management; Sustainability; System Analysis; Aral Sea; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16094

UNICA: Challenges to Deliver Sustainability in the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chaddad,   Fabio Ribas.
Teaching Notes Available: ifamr@ifama.org Author video introduction: http://www.youtube.com/user/ifamr1#p/u/7/4kZDvS7v5NA
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Biofuels; Ethanol; Industry association; Teaching case; Agribusiness; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96332

AZ AGRÁR- ÉS VIDÉKFEJLESZTÉS FENNTARTHATÓ RENDSZERE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Csete,   Laszlo.
A témakörben végzett eddigi vizsgálódásaink alapján egyre jobban kirajzolha-tó, hogy a globalizálódó világ ellentmondásaiból való kilábalás a fenntarthatóság-tól, a kreativitástól, az alternatív erőforrások térnyerésétől és az emberek összefo-gásától remélhető. Ez még inkább igaz a rendszerváltozás átalakulási, átmeneti gondjainak következményeivel vesződő hazai agrárgazdaságra és vidékre.  A fenntarthatóság és a vidékfejlesztés kibontakozása az Európai Unióban egymástól függetlenül párhuzamosan halad, s nem sokkal jobb a helyzet az ag-rárpolitikában és vidékpolitikában, miközben a fenntarthatóság középpontba ál-lítása, az agrár- és vidékfejlesztés tudatos összekapcsolása a kölcsönhatások és összefüggések előnyeinek kamatoztatása érdekében egyre sürgetőbb....
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Nemzeti stratégia; LEADER+; Vidékfejlesztés; Fenntarthatóság - National strategies; LEADER +; Rural development; Sustainability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54294

Defining an Agribusiness Strategic Agenda for 2010-2020
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Neves,   Marcos Fava; Scare,   Roberto Fava.
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Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Networks; Sustainability; Supply chains; Marketing; Agribusiness; Agenda; Agribusiness; Marketing.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93342

Precíziós növénytermelés növényvédőszer-használatának gazdasági hatásai
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Takacs-Gyorgy,   Katalin.
A mezőgazdaság műszaki fejlesztése lehetőséget nyújt a korszerű technológiák széles körű alkalmazására. Ilyen a precíziós növényvédelem, amely egyben a fenntarthatóság kritériumai érvényesítését is szolgálja. Gyakorlati alkalmazása érdemi vegyszer megtakarítást eredményez. Modellszámítás segítségével vizsgáltam a lehetséges megtakarítás közgazdasági összefüggéseit makrogazdasági szinten. A precíziós növénytermelésre történő átállás utáni kemikália-felhasználásban az EU-25-ökben – optimista szcenáriót feltételezve – változatlan hozamszint 340 ezer tonnával kevesebb műtrágya hatóanyaggal, míg növényvédő szerből – jelenlegi dózisszinten – 30 ezer tonnával kevesebb kijuttatásával érhető el. Amennyiben az átálló gazdaságok aránya 30–60% között alakul, a teljes...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Növényvédőszer-környezetterhelés; Megtakarítás; Versenyképesség; Fenntarthatóság; Pesticide emission; Savings; Competitiveness; Sustainability; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99133

The Evolution of the Agri-Environmental Policies and Sustainable Agriculture
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ventura-Lucas,   Maria Raquel; Godinho,   Maria de Lurdes Ferro; Fragoso,   Rui Manuel de Sousa.
Sustainable agriculture implies the exploitation of natural resources now, without compromising the natural resources stocks for the future generations. In the context of the paper, agricultural sustainability takes place at the interface between agriculture and the environment. The focus is on the interplay between farming systems and agri-environmental policies. Agricultural policies have major impacts on soil and water quality and on bio-diversity. Support commodity price policies have lead to serious problems of water pollution; high levels of soil erosion; nitrate losses and lost of biodiversity. The semi decoupeted income support policies and the introduction of the agri-environmental schemes under the 1992 CAP reform were the first attempts to...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agri-environmental Policies; Bio-economic Model; Conservation Farming Technologies; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24956

Agriculture’s Multifunctionality, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hediger,   Werner.
We investigate the question whether the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) could be used to replace or complement those of multifunctionality and sustainability in the agri-food sector. It shows that the double role of citizens as tax payers and customers requests and allows us to directly link the problems of governance and stakeholder society in an intertemporal framework of total value maximisation and sustainable development. Thus, the concept of CSR provides a link between the views on agriculture’s multifunctionality and sustainability. Moreover, the fact that some actors in a vertical market, such as the agri-food chain, can exercise market power and absorb tax money and resource rents enforces the need of a broader perspective which...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural policy; Multifunctionality; Sustainability; Social responsibility; Market power.; D62; D63; Q01; Q18.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36854

THE USE OF ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS IN TRANSITIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: CASE STUDY OF MACEDONIAN PATH TO MEET GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nedanovski,   Pece.
The demand for harmonization of domestic policies across countries is seen as a precondition for globalization. Does globalization conflict with environmental protection? The relationship between two of them is too complex. From the viewpoint of its protection, the environment must be seen as a whole. In the same time, the utility function based on income and pollution, is not identical and homothetic across different countries. It appears that the diversity in environmental protection is legitimate. In order to provide a sustainable environmental policy in transitional circumstances, the R. of Macedonia needs a balance between the goals of social development, economic progress and environmental protection. So far, because of the institutional development...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Economic instruments; Environmental protection; Sustainability; Globalization; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/5994

Pathways to Improved Profitability and Sustainability of Cotton Cultivation at Farm Level in Africa: an Approach to Addressing Critical Knowledge Gaps
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kelly,   Valerie A.; Boughton,   Duncan; Magen,   Benjamin B.
In 2009, the World Bank published a comparative study of cotton sector reforms, based on detailed case studies carried out during 2007/08 in nine of Africa’s main cotton producing countries. The purpose of the study was to draw practical insights from the diversity of experiences in institutional reforms of cotton sectors and to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different types of sectors operating in Africa, the likely effects of specific types of policy change, and the possible ways forward.  This paper develops a concept note for additional research that would address the perceived weaknesses of the earlier work. The underlying hypothesis of the proposed study is that technology research, farmer training, and policy and institutional...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Africa; Cotton; Sustainability; Profitability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101163

SHEEP PRODUCTION IN HUNGARY – IS IT A SUSTAINABLE SECTOR?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Madai,   Hajnalka; Nabradi,   Andras; Lapis,   Miklos.
The question of sustainability of agricultural production especially animal production and events leading to its development can be dated back to the second part of the last century. Sustainability is a priority subject matter as it is a core element in our existence and in the survival of the forthcoming generations. The notion of sustainability comprises three aspects: ecological, social and political and economic target systems, which by now have been supplemented with cultural and regional elements including the protection of environment, local traditions, scale of values, cultural and historical heritage. The principles of sustainable development also include the improvement of human and animal health and the maintenance of vital rural communities....
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Sheep production; Sustainability; Problem tree; Swot; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53576

Corporate Social Responsibility in Agribusiness: Empirical Findings from Germany
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Heyder,   Matthias; Theuvsen,   Ludwig.
The social responsibility of businesses has developed into a highly debated issue in recent years. Especially in agribusiness, recent scandals as well as information asymmetries concerning food production have led to high external pressure on firms from the wider public. Being confronted with a variety of stakeholder goals and relationships, it could be particularly advantageous for enterprises in agribusiness to pursue a corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy. Based on a literature review, we introduce a conceptual framework that provides insights into the determinants of CSR and its effects, in particular, on the legitimacy and reputation, and finally, the performance of enterprises in agribusiness. This contingency-theoretic approach allows a...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Corporate social responsibility; CSR; Agribusiness; Survey; Sustainability; Food scandals; Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58152

O PAPEL DA PRODUÇÃO DE BIOCOMBUSTÍVEIS PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL: UMA ANÁLISE NO ARRANJO FUMAGEIRO GAÚCHO
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wegner,   Douglas; Santos,   Manoela Silveira Dos; Padula,   Antonio Domingos.
O presente artigo explora o papel da produção de biocombustíveis para o desenvolvimento local endógeno. A análise foi realizada na Região do Vale do Rio Pardo (RS), tradicional produtora de tabaco que concentra as principais multinacionais do setor e possui alta dependência em relação ao produto. O recrudescimento das campanhas antitabagistas e a criação de legislações mais rigorosas serviram de alerta à região para os riscos da dependência em relação à cadeia produtiva do tabaco. Atualmente, são desenvolvidos localmente dois projetos baseados na produção de biocombustíveis que buscam o desenvolvimento local sustentável, aproveitando as potencialidades da região. A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada caracteriza-se como uma abordagem qualitativa, e a coleta...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Desenvolvimento local; Sustentabilidade; Biocombustíveis; Agricultura familiar; Local development; Sustainability; Biofuels; Family farmers; Tobacco; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109662

ARGOS - Modelling the Economic, Environmental, and Social Implications for New Zealand from Different Scenarios Relating to the Demand and Supply of Organic Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Saunders,   Caroline M.; Emanuelsson,   Martin.
This paper reports on some of the initial findings of the ARGOS (Agricultural Research Group on (Sustainability) programme, a 6 year quasi-experimental research project with the aim to model the economic, environmental, and social differences between organic, environmentally friendly and conventional systems of production. In the first section the paper reviews the development of organic markets, details the production costs and reports some preliminary results from ARGOS. The information is then used to develop potential future scenarios relating to the organic sector, which are assessed using the Lincoln Trade and Environment Model (LTEM), a partial equilibrium trade model that differentiates between organic and conventional production methods. This...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; New Zealand; Organic markets; ARGOS; Demand and Price Analysis; F18; Q17.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24724

Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sarfo-Mensah,   Paul; Oduro,   William.
The potential of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation and the improvement of sustainable rural livelihoods is no longer in doubt. In sub-Saharan Africa, extensive habitat destruction, degradation, and severe depletion of wildlife, which have seriously reduced biodiversity and undermined the livelihoods of many people in rural communities, have been attributed mainly to the erosion of traditional strategies for natural resources management. In Ghana, recent studies point to an increasing disregard for traditional rules and regulations, beliefs and practices that are associated with natural resources management. Traditional natural resources management in many typically indigenous communities in Ghana derives from changes in...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Tumi; Sacred Groves; Forest-Savanna Transition; Sustainability; Traditional; Christianity; Islam; International Development; Z1.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59386

A fenntartható fejlődés kérdései a Gyöngyösi kistérség településein
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Baják,   Imre; Torcsvari,   Zsolt.
A kutatás célja a fenntarthatóság lokális, helyi (kistérségi, települési) megvalósítási lehetőségeinek, megoldási módjainak, ellentmondásainak és akadályainak feltárása. A kérdőíves vizsgálat az önkormányzatoknál és a lakosságnál is ismerethiányt és gyenge kezdeményezőkészséget jelzett. Igaz, napjainkban Magyarországon a fenntarthatóságot kormányzati és helyi szinten sem kezelik jelentőségének megfelelő helyen, s a nemzeti stratégia is csak 2007-re készült el. Útmutatók és esettanulmányok híján az önkormányzatok is csak tapogatóznak, és a lakosság sincsen tisztában a nemzetközi kezdeményezés jelentőségével. A törvényi háttér csak azt rögzíti, hogy a helyi hatóságok részt vehetnek ilyen stratégiák készítésében, de nem fogalmaz meg kötelezettségeket,...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Fenntarthatóság; Fenntarthatósági stratégia; Lokális szint; Önkormányzatok; Civil szféra; Sustainability; Sustainability strategy; Local level; Municipal Governments; NGOs; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92528

Sustainability assessment of olive grove in Andalusia: A methodological proposal
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gomez-Limon,   Jose Antonio; Riesgo,   Laura.
Recently the olive sector has had important changes in Andalusia due to both the enlargement and the intensification of farming. The expansion of the olive grove in Andalusia is causing sustainability problems, not only from the socio-economic dimension (profit reduction) but environmental (erosion, water pollution or biodiversity losses). The main objective of this study is to develop a methodology to analyse the sustainability of the olive grove farms in Andalusia. This methodology will allow us to bear with the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) as well as to obtain a precise diagnosis of the olive grove through a selection of a set of indicators. This methodology will be applied in future research works in order to...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Olive tree; Sustainability; Indicators; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use; Production Economics.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109323

Prioritizing objectives to evaluate the environmental, economic and social impacts of biofuel in Spain
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fernadez-Tirado,   Francisca; Parra-Lopez,   Carlos.
A variety of opinions either in favour or against development of biofuels has risen in the last years related to the environmental, economic and social impacts that its diffusion could entail compared to petroleum. Although the EU, in general, and Spain, in particular, are strongly supporting the development of biofuels they highlight that energy planning must be based on a sound analysis of the impacts of the diverse alternatives. This poster is a preliminary approach to this analysis. The main aim is to prioritize a set of environmental, economic and social objectives to identify the most relevant issues that would allow evaluating the impacts of the biofuel production and consumption in Spain. Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Analytic Hierarchy...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Biofuel; Sustainability; ANP; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44117

ANALISES DE VARIAVEIS PARA ESTRUTURAÇÀO DE UM MODELO ECONOMICO E AMBIENTAL: QUANTIFICAÇÃO DA SUSTENTABILIDADE NO SETOR AGROINDUSTRIAL BRASILEIRO.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Silva,   Edwin Pinto De La Sota; Serrano,   Andre Luiz Marques; Silva,   Marcio Francisco Da; Fonseca,   Adelaida Pallavicini.
Este artigo tem por finalidade analisar os conceitos de manutenção e preservação do meio ambiente que promovem desenvolvimento sustentável, tendo em vista a proposta de um modelo econômico e ambiental. Assim, intervenções no padrão da gestão pública que implique no aumento do grau de eficácia na utilização dos recursos financeiros propiciarão uma transformação no paradigma de desenvolvimento que não mais poderá ser excludente e danoso para o meio ambiente. A compreensão do significado de desenvolvimento social e econômico envolve os mecanismos de distribuição das riquezas geradas e neste contexto, a viabilização do conceito de sustentabilidade implicará em mudanças no comportamento social (coletivo) e individual. A discussão quanto ao comportamento e uso...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Modelo econômico; Gerações futuras; Sustainability; Economic model; Future generations; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113983

Demand for Pasture-Raised Livestock Products: Results from Michigan Retail Surveys
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Conner,   David S.; Oppenheim,   Diana.
Pasture-raised livestock production offers opportunity for product differentiation and enhanced sustainability. Shopper surveys at three Michigan retail locations measured consumers’ attitudes and beliefs regarding pasture-raised livestock products, and willingness to pay for pasture-raised milk and beef. The shoppers associate pasture-raised products with attributes important to purchase decisions. The shoppers express willingness to pay, on average, about 35% more for pasture-raised milk and beef. Informational messages appear to have no effect on these responses. We suggest pasture-raised is a viable marketing strategy and recommend premium pricing strategies and promotion based on verifiable health benefits.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Animal welfare; Consumer demand; Pasture-raised livestock products; Sustainability; Tobit; Willingness to pay; Agribusiness; Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90550

Hedonic Analysis of Sustainable Food Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Satimanon,   Thasanee; Weatherspoon,   Dave D.
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Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Hedonic; Sustainable; Sustainability; Eggs; Free-range; Cage-free; Agribusiness; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96336

CORPORATE INTERNALIZATION OF SUSTAINABILITY REQUIREMENTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ransburg,   Beatrix.
Sustainability has become the boiling point of theoretical business discussions. At first it was only a concept everybody was talking about but no one knew how it should be materialized. Now we can understand how and why companies are inclined to follow the principle. This gives the policy makers and other stakeholders the tools to alter market conditions in ways that more and more companies accept the requirements of sustainability. Several levels of sustain-ability have been identified and now the discussion is shifting towards achieving a common ground how to measure sustainability. Since sustainability is such a broad concept and it is very dependant on the factors of the given industry the analyzed company is operating in, two major ways to measure...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Value internalization; Environmental Economics and Policy; Financial Economics; Public Economics.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58932

Fenntarthatósági vizsgálatok a vidékfejlesztésben
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Csete,   Maria.
A fenntarthatóság jelentősége és aktualitása nem szorul különösebb bizonyításra, mert tapasztalható, hogy a természeti rendszerek körforgásának, vagy az anyagi javak újratermelésének zavarai már az emberi létezést veszélyeztetik. A vizsgálat tárgyául a Tisza-tó térsége, illetve a Tisza-tó Térségi Fejlesztési Tanácsba tömörült 73 település szolgált. Hazánkban a fenntarthatósági vizsgálatok szerepe a vidékfejlesztésben kiemelt jelentőségű. A vidéki térségek fejlettségi szintjei és lehetőségei erőteljesen befolyásolhatják a fenntarthatóság gyakorlati megvalósításának esélyeit, amint azt korábbi vizsgálataink is alátámasztották. A vizsgált területen a támogatásokban meghirdetett fejlesztési elgondolások kérdőíves vizsgálatának eredményei alapján...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Fenntarthatóság; Vidékfejlesztés; Kistérség; Empirikus felmérés; Sustainability; Rural development; Micro-region; Empirical survey; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92529

Where has all the cream gone: How sustainable is the English dairy supply chain?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Glover,   Jane.
The sustainability of the dairy supply chain is a widely debated topic in the industry. The purpose of this paper is to explore farmer behaviour in response to diminishing returns and investigates the possible long-term implications of low returns, identified by farming families. The paper argues that, sustained declines in margins, coupled with other structural changes in the industry, will eventually lead to an exodus of small family farms. A qualitative methodology ensures in-depth data were collected over a five year period. The results indicate that farmers and their families are concerned over the reduced margins for their produce, with many smaller farms forced to subsidies the business with alternative sources of income. Farmers also raise concerns...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Supply chain; Sustainability; Family farming; Behaviour.; Farm Management; D400; J300; L110; M100; Q120.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108940

The Establishment of an Organic Farmers’ Market as a Training Case Study and Research for Graduate Students of Organic Agriculture at the University of Palermo
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schifani,   Giorgio; Inglese,   Paolo; Noto,   Francesca; Migliore,   Giuseppina.
Despite the modest regional consumption of organic products, Sicily is one of the most important European regions in surface area per number of companies active in organic farming. The University of Palermo, as early as 2000, to promote the development and success in this industry, the Faculty of Agriculture, introduced two major degree programs in "Organic Farming". The objective of these courses is to train graduates who are technically capable of supporting the organic farmers market, to promote and facilitate the expansion of the consumption of organic products, and to create employment opportunities for young graduates. At the end of 2009, in the area of these activities, a training and research program involved numerous students in the creation of an...
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Critical consumption; Solidarity Purchase Groups; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121949

The impact of reforming the Common Agricultural Policy on the sustainability of the irrigated area of Central Italy. An empirical assessment by means of a Positive Mathematical Programming model
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cortignani,   Raffaele; Severini,   Simone.
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a major driver of the environmental and social sustainability of the agriculture in the European Union (EU). Under the 2003 CAP reform, most direct payments to agricultural producers were decoupled from production. This work assesses the possible impact of the CAP reform on the sustainability of an irrigated area of Central Italy with particular attention being paid to decoupling. The analysis has been conducted using the Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) method that directly estimates the cost function parameters by imposing the first-order conditions of the farm model under consideration. The analysis assesses the impact of the CAP reform on farm cropping patterns, water and chemical use, labour use and...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Common Agricultural Policy; Sustainability; Positive Mathematical Programming; Farmers’ behaviour; Irrigated agriculture; Decoupling; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109318

Carving Out Policy Space for Sustainability in Biofuel Production
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Marshall,   Elizabeth P.
Biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are increasingly promoted as green alternatives to petroleum-derived transport fuels. Scaling up feedstock production to produce enough biofuel to displace a significant portion of current petroleum demand will put pressure on land and water resources both domestically and internationally, however, and could potentially be accompanied by unacceptable changes in landscape-level land use patterns and provisioning of ecosystem services. Ensuring that feedstock production is sustainable and that biofuels provide the social and environmental benefits that are often attributed to them will require a carefully designed portfolio of agricultural, forestry, energy, and trade policies related to biofuels and feedstock...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Biofuels; Sustainability; Land use; Greenhouse gas accounting; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44696

Energy efficiency, innovation, and job creation in California
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Roland-Holst,   David W.
Global climate change poses significant risks to the California economy. Recognizing and responding to these threats, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order #S-3-05 (Schwarzenegger 2005) which called for a 30 percent reduction below business-as-usual of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. In September 2006, the California legislature passed and Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law the historic Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), which mandates a first-in-the-nation limit on emissions that cause global warming. In June 2006, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released a “Draft Scoping Plan” – the policy roadmap to meet the emissions reduction target of 169 Million Metric Tons of Carbon (MMTCO2)...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Energy; Sustainability; Climate change; Economic policy; Energy policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46718

Vidékfejlődés: bűvészmutatványok örök ellenszélben
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Varga,   Geza.
A galgahévízi ökoprojekt gondolata a 80-as évek második felére tekint vissza, majd fokozatosan valósul meg 1989-től kezdődően. Az első lépést a faluban szervezett népfőiskola jelentette, melynek keretében a helyi lakosok ismerkedtek a fenntartható jövővel, majd megalakult a „Galgafarm” Első Magyar Organikus Mezőgazdasági Szövetkezet, amely tevékenységét 1998 óta pénzügyileg is eredményesen folytatja, megteremtve 40-45 család megélhetését. A Galgafarmon tájgazdálkodás folyik, s 50-60 család számára önellátást valósítanak meg élelmiszer-feldolgozó üzemeikben, de termékeiket nyers és feldolgozott formában értékesítik is. Fontos szerepet játszik az épülő galgahévízi ökofalu, mint lakó- és élettér. Minden tevékenység, – az ökofalu is – a természettel való...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Fenntarthatóság; Tájgazdálkodás; Élelemtermelés; Közjó; Ökofalu; Sustainability; Area-specific agriculture; Food production public good; Ecovillage; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92489

AVALIAÇÃO DA SUSTENTABILIDADE DO PROJETO DE PISCICULTURA CURUPATI-PEIXE NO AÇUDE CASTANHÃO, JAGUARIBARA-CE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nascimento,   Sandra Carla Oliveira Do; Araujo,   Rogerio Cesar Pereira.
While the fishery production reaches its pick and runs to its decline, the aquaculture comes out as an alternative to reduce the pressure over the marine stock of fish. The coastal aquaculture led by the shrimp farming is rapidly expanding in the developing countries, and not less expressive are the initiatives to develop the rural aquaculture. Besides that the consolidation of the new paradigm of sustainable development, the aquaculture needs to be investigated regarding its sustainability. In this sense, having the systemic method as theoretical foundation, indicators are proposed to evaluate the sustainability of a project being carried out  in the Castanhão reservoir, in Jaguaribara-CE, called Curupati-Peixe Project, that cultivates Nile Tilápia in...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Aqüicultura sustentável; Sustentabilidade; Projeto Curupati-Peixe; Sustainable Aquaculture; Sustainability; Curupati-Peixe Project; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108913

Applying Sustainable Value Methodology for Hungarian Agriculture
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Molnar,   Andras.
The Sustainable Value method is a promising approach for accessing sustainability performance of a given activity using the concept of opportunity cost and the performance of a given benchmark. In this study the performance of the Hungarian agriculture is studied. Using FADN data for the period of 2002-2006, the possible effect of the EU accession on agricultural production is examined. Structural, economic and human factors are considered in order to gain better understanding of the differences.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; EU accession; Assessment; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44139

SUSTAINABILITY OF AGRICULTURE IN DANUBE BASIN AREA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Popovic,   Vesna; Saric,   Radojica; Jovanovic,   Marijana.
Review article
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agriculture; Production systems; Danube basin area; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q 01.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123960

Sustainability: Can it be Achieved? Is Economics the Bottom Line?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tisdell,   Clement A.
None
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Globalisation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90512

Industry Speaks Strategies for Solving the Food Inflation Problem
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Neves,   Marcos Fava.
This article addresses some of the partial truths and misinformation in media reporting over the booming food prices debate. Many studies are only linking biofuels to the inflation cause, while ignoring several other factors such as the growth of the world population, economic development and income distribution. An overview of the causes is discussed and 10 strategies proposed which policy makers, governments, and organizations can adapt to move the world forward towards long-term sustainability.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Food crisis; Bio-fuels; Strategy; Sustainability; Problem solving; Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q10; Q16; Q27.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53731

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FARMERS AND CONSUMERS: VALUE CREATION AND MEDIATION IN “PASTURE-RAISED BEEF” FOOD NETWORKS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bedoin, Florence; Kristensen, Troels; Noe, Egon.
The aim of this article is to explore how different quality dimensions (safety, aesthetics, ethics and rooted ness) are created in food networks; how these qualities are transferred until the consumers; and how this process is supported by the organisation of the food network. Our postulate is that combining the quality and organisation dimensions and exploring the link between them will provide an interesting perspective for improving the sharing of values in food networks. This framework is applied to five case studies of “pasture-raised beef” food networks in France, representing a diversity of organisations such as public label scheme, cooperate owned brand and direct sell from farmer to consumer. The results highlight the importance of the role of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Grassland; Meat quality; Sustainability; Food labeling; Case study; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57475

Importance of Sustainability on Agriculture in Southern Africa
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Louw,   Andre; Ndanga,   Leah Z.B.
This paper seeks to describe and discuss the impact that climate changes, and other challenges in terms of sustainability, have had on Africa and particularly on South Africa. It seeks to discuss the extent to which these changes directly and indirectly impact agriculture and the measures that are currently underway, with particular reference to South Africa, as well as suggest other strategies that could be implemented to attenuate the effects of climate change, thereby advancing the global shift towards sustainability. The paper discusses environmental and other changes that have taken place in Africa and asserts that the continent is in a particularly difficult situation in light of the debate on sustainability versus productivity. The fact that most of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agriculture; South Africa; Climate change; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96810

ANALYSING THE LOW ADOPTION OF WATER CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES BY SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Perret,   Sylvain R.; Stevens,   Joe B.
Natural resource degradation and water scarcity are a global concern, which typically threatens the sustainability of smallholder farmers' livelihoods in semi-arid developing areas.  As part of research efforts, a number of water-conservation technologies (WCT) have been developed, yet with low adoption rates in smallholder farming environments.  This paper discusses the concepts of adoption and innovation, comparing the perspectives of research operators to the ones of smallholder farmers.  Discrepancies are highlighted and ultimately explain low uptake of technologies by farmer.  Then it addresses socio-economic factors affecting such adoption.  It is argued that WCT show specific traits: (1) diversity and applicability to different time and spatial...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Adoption; Innovation; Water conservation; Technologies; Collective action; Property rights; Sustainability; Livelihoods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18028

MARKET EXPECTATIONS OF ECOLOGICAL PRODUCTS IN HUNGARIAN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Foldes,   Fruzsina; Goda,   Matyas; Molnar,   Barna.
Within agricultural technologies the environment consciousness, environment saving approaches have become increasingly significant in recent years. The main objective of this trend is to find the proper balance within the human-plant-animal environment. In the last few years, rural policies also encouraged the sustainable way of production in agriculture. Organic farming is one of the opportunities of introducing these theoretical approaches into practise. The paper evaluates the results of a survey made of ecological animal keeping farms. It was found that producers were mainly motivated by their commitments to environmentalism. Considering prospects for the future – taking also aspects of profitability into account – they are optimistic about forthcoming...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Changes in consumption habits; Questionnary - fenntarthatóság; Fogyasztói szokásváltozások; Kérdőíves felmérés; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54408

Agri-food supply chains and sustainability-related issues: evidence from across the Scottish agri-food economy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Leat,   Philip M.K.; Lamprinopoulou-Kranis,   Chrysa; Revoredo-Giha,   Cesar; Kupiec-Teahan,   Beata.
This paper examines the influence of agri-food supply chains on the sustainability-related activities and decisions of Scottish farmers, as well as the treatment of sustainability issues by food processors and retailers themselves. It is based on 8 whole chain case studies covering some of Scotland‘s major agricultural products. The cases identify differing levels of understanding and activities related to sustainability, but widespread acknowledgement that sustainability involves the development of chains within which all parties can achieve acceptable profits. Indeed, collaborative supply chains, which seek improved economic performance, frequently assist environmental and social sustainability. The main drivers of sustainability are found to be the cost...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Food; Supply chain; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; Q18.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108952

Sustainability Strategies in U.S. Agribusiness: Understanding Key Drivers, Objectives, and Actions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rankin,   Amber; Gray,   Allan W.; Boehlje,   Michael; Alexander,   Corinne E.
www.ifama.org
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Triple bottom line; Strategy; Stakeholders; Supply chain; Agribusiness; Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117601

Relationships' sustainability: the case of German wheat-to-bread chain
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bavorova,   Miroslava; Hockmann,   Heinrich.
In recent years there has been a shift in emphasis from transaction-based to more co-operative relationships, as chain members have recognised the need to invest in their supply chain relationships in order to protect their businesses. These non-arm’s-length relationships are capable of generating relational rents for chain partners. The main aim of this paper is to investigate why, in spite of the advantages of the non-arm’s-length relationships, some relationships do not continue. To enhance the understanding of the termination process, we identify and analyse the factors inducing relationship sustainability (continuation) as well as termination in the case of the German wheat-to-bread chain. The study built on the findings of relationship marketing...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Economic relationships; Sustainability; Termination; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44067

Support Scheme of Food Processing Firms: A Driving Force for Rural Development?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Trefflich,   Annette; Uetrecht,   Inge; Efken,   Josef; Schafer,   Martin; Steinbauer,   Christina; Wendt,   Heinz.
The agri-food sector was given remarkable amounts of funding by all German federal states in the framework of the Measure g ‘Improving Processing and Marketing of Agricultural Products’ within the rural development programs. Based on literature and data we obtained by evaluating this program we identified some indicators representative for illustration of sustainable development, Apart from project data we used the official statistics and the method of case studies. Via selected indicators we received some signs of sustainable development in enterprises of the agri-food industry that also influence the development of rural area. Some statements are restricted because net effects can not be determined. The need for subsidies is discussed as well as...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Economic development; Case studies; Subsidies; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Political Economy; Production Economics.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90868

OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES OF AREABASED PARTNERSHIPS IN RURAL HUNGARY – MAIN FEATURES OF THE OPERATIONS OF LEADER LOCAL ACTION GROUPS BASED ON A NATIONWIDE SURVEY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kis,   Krisztian; Szekeresne,   Koteles Rita.
Based on the results of our questionnaire survey, our study presents the major operational features of LEADER LAGs established in Hungary in the second half of 2007. Our national survey indicated that most of the partnerships established do not have experience in the implementation of community-based rural development programmes and there are no traditions and practices for development cooperation, which may cause problems as the success of programme implementation highly depends on the preparedness of local society, on the cooperation of local people. The survey indicates that the development of areas covered by LAGs is hindered by so-called soft factors characterizing human resources (rural people and communities). Therefore human resources are not only...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Endogenous development; Local Action Groups (LAG's); Cooperation; Social capital; Capacity-building; Subsidiarity; Sustainability; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104682

Irrigation against rural poverty: an overview of issues and pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia; Proceedings of National Workshops on Pro-Poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam [9-10 August 2001, Colombo, Sri Lanka]
Provedor de dados: 31
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Water resources; Poverty; Sustainability; Rural development; Irrigated farming; Performance evaluation; Case studies; Large scale systems; Surface irrigation; Water use efficiency; Water scarcity; Water policy; Productivity; Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118406

Néhány gondolat a 2010. évi időjárási szélsőségek nyomán a fenntartható erdőgazdálkodásról
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Solymos,   Rezso.
2010 emlékezetes esztendeje lesz a magyarországi erdőknek, erdőgazdálkodásnak is. Kedvezőtlen időjárási tényezők sora és mértéke okozott nem várt károkat erdeinkben. Afák ezreit, az erdők több száz hektárját tarolta le a kíméletlen vihar és tette kérdésessé az adott területen megcélzott fenntartható, természetközeli erdőgazdálkodást. A2010. évi tapasztalatok is megerősítették a klímaváltozással kapcsolatos kutatások folytatásának az indokoltságát és a gyakorlati tapasztalatok összegezését, értékelését, ezek mielőbbi hasznosítását. Afolyamatban levő kutatások főleg hosszabb idő elteltével szolgáltatnak majd tudományosan megalapozott, a gyakorlatban is hasznosítható eredményeket.  Az erdőket veszélyeztető abiotikus és biotikus károk között a szélsőséges...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Klímaváltozás; Fenntarthatóság; Erdőgazdálkodás; Faj és fajta; Természetközeliség.; Climate change; Sustainability; Sylviculture; Species and variety; Natural management; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99201

Consumer Attitudes towards Sustainability Attributes on Food Labels
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tait,   Peter R.; Miller,   Sini; Abell,   Walter L.; Kaye-Blake,   William; Guenther,   Meike; Saunders,   Caroline M.
Concerns about climate change and the general status of the environment have increased expectation that food products have sustainability credentials, and that these can be verified. There are significant and increasing pressures in key export markets for information on Greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of products throughout its life-cycle. How this information is conveyed to consumers is a key issue. Labelling is a common method of communicating certain product attributes to consumers that may influence their choices. In a choice experiment concerning fruit purchase decisions, this study estimates willingness to pay for sustainability attributes by consumers in Japan and the UK. The role of label presentation format is investigated: text only, text and...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Willingness to pay; Choice experiment; Food labelling; Sustainability; Cross-country comparison; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q18; Q51; Q56.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100716

The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Shah,   Tushaar; Molden,   David J.; Sakthivadivel,   Ramasamy; Seckler,   David.
Groundwater offers us few but precious opportunities for alleviating the misery of the poor; but it poses many—and daunting—challenges of preserving the resource itself. A big part of the answer is massive initiatives to augment groundwater recharge in regions suffering depletion; but, in the ultimate analysis, these cannot work without appropriate demand-side interventions. The water vision of a world that future generations will inherit will have to be the one in which groundwater plays its full developmental, productive and environmental role but in a sustainable manner; and the framework of action to realize this vision will mean eschewing the current free-for-all in groundwater appropriation and use, and promoting a more responsible management of this...
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Groundwater resources; Groundwater depletion; Water scarcity; Water shortage; Poverty; Rural development; River basins; Sustainability; Waterlogging; Salinity; Aquifers; Water pollution; Pumps; Recharge; Water harvesting; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113506

DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL E SUSTENTABILIDADE: CIDADANIA EM CONSTRUÇÃO
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Oliveira,   Elias Rodrigues de; Moura Filho,   Jovino A. de.
From time to time, mainly in the field of action of the so-called human and social sciences, notions are instituted, culled, re-designed or they re-emerge with renewed impetus in the intellectual debate. That is what seems to be occurring with the concept of development, now emphasized in its dimension of territoriality associated with a view of sustainability and as a foundation for the exercise of citizenship rights. This work seeks to contribute timidly to that reflection. For such it employs a brief bibliographic review and a critical analysis of the social-economic and environmental reality under the prism of sustainability and citizenship in countries and regions in developing stage, above all in Brazil.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Local development; Sustainability; Citizenship.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43527

SUSTAINABLE EFFICIENCY OF FIRMS WHEN NEW SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS ARE INTRODUCED
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mondelaers,   Koen; Kuosmanen,   Timo; Van Passel,   Steven; Buysse,   Jeroen; Lauwers,   Ludwig H.; Van Huylenbroeck,   Guido.
There is a high potential for simultaneously increasing sustainability of the earth system and economic development by removing inefficiencies currently present both at the production input and output side. In this paper a static view on sustainability is employed, by introducing capacity constraints as the boundaries above (or below) which the system cannot maintain its stable state. Currently these capacity constraints are often not respected. In this paper it is shown how the efficiency improvement pathway of an industry and the firms within it can be calculated to come to a sustainable, profit maximizing state, given the existence of these capacity constraints.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Efficiency analysis; Sustainability; DEA; Directional distance vectors; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114633

MULTIFUNCTIONAL AGRICULTURE AS AN INNOVATION PATH FOR RURAL AREAS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Madureira,   Livia Maria Costa; Costa,   Susete.
The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential of MFA model to enhance innovation in rural areas build on the analysis of information from a database of best practices on innovation in EU rural areas collected by the RAPIDO project1. The analysis shows innovation to be strongly related to multiple-activity. This suggests the synergies between functions and land-uses to overlap the competition for resources between activities and that MFA shows a promising approach to enhance innovation in rural areas.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Innovation; Multifunctionality; Rural areas; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57644

MANEJO SUSTENTÁVEL DA CAATINGA PARA PRODUÇÃO ECONÔMICA DE BIOMASSA VEGETAL
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Menezes,   Marcelo Oliveira Teles De; Araujo,   Rogerio Cesar Pereira.
Devido às suas dimensões continentais e às condições ambientais dos trópicos (temperatura e umidade elevadas), o Brasil tem alta biodiversidade e grande potencial de produção de biomassa. A biodiversidade oferece uma grande variedade de produtos que podem ser explorados, tais como a biomassa vegetal, que pode ser utilizada como madeira para móveis e construção civil, fabricação de celulose (papel), lenha, carvão, combustível além de servir de matéria-prima para artesanato. Apesar disso, esse potencial produtivo é subutilizado no Brasil. O setor florestal brasileiro não aproveita sua biodiversidade, utilizando apenas monoculturas de espécies exóticas. Sua produção madeireira é pequena, considerando que se trata do país com a 2ª maior extensão de florestas...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Caatinga; Gestão; Biomassa; Sustentabilidade; Management; Biomass; Sustainability; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109066

Accounting for Depletion of Oil and Gas Resources in Malaysia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Othman,   Jamal; Jafari,   Yaghoob.
This paper provides an assessment of the changes in the availability of oil and gas resources in Malaysia. The physical and monetary balance sheets for crude oil and natural gas for the period 2000- 2007 was constructed. The net present value of expected future incomes to reflect the value of resource change was calculated based on a physical extraction and a resource rent scenario. Resource rent is gross operating surplus less the estimated user cost of produced capital in the crude oil and natural gas extraction industry. We obtained the gross operating surplus by subtracting the value of consumption of employees and net taxes on production cost from the value added of petroleum domestic products. Our findings noted serious reduction of oil reserves from...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Environmental Accounts; Accounting; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q56.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100690

SITUAÇÃO E PERSPECTIVA EM ASSENTAMENTOS RURAIS NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cirilo,   Lucas Da Silveira; Corrado,   Amanda Roberta; Costa,   Manoel Baltasar Baptista Da; Gavioli,   Felipe Rosafa.
Diante do atual cenário agrícola, o presente trabalho procede uma reflexão sobre a realidade da reforma agrária em São Paulo, com base em acúmulos e observações do projeto “Da microbacia ao agricultor familiar: uma releitura do agroecossistema”, conduzido em assentamentos da região central do Estado. As reflexões remetem às principais características e peculiaridades dos assentamentos, os problemas que afetam a produção e os produtores, a sustentabilidade do processo a médio e longo prazo, bem como questões que se avaliam como centrais ao processo em si e às comunidades assentadas. Nas áreas trabalhadas verificou-se a adoção e implementação do padrão tecnológico da “Revolução Verde”, possivelmente inadequado a tal segmento por não estar conseguindo...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Agroecologia; Reforma agrária; Agricultura familiar; Sustainability; Agroecology; Agrarian reform; Family agriculture; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109567

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INDUSTRIALIZED AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES: THE CASE OF VERTICAL COORDINATION IN BROILERS AND HOGS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Martin,   Laura L.; Zering,   Kelly D.
This paper examines the relationship between industrialized production in the pork and broiler industries and the natural environment.  Historical perspectives are presented regarding the movement toward increasingly concentrated and coordinated pork and broiler production units in the South. The relationships between animal by-product management and environmental quality, both at the farm level and within a geographic region, are addressed.  Using the North Carolina pork industry as a background, current regulations and potential policy implications to protect environmental quality are discussed.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Industrialized agriculture; Sustainability; Vertical coordination; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15549

Managing Sustainability and Export Risks: The Case of Tasmanian Southern Rock Lobster
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dentoni,   Domenico.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Lobster; Tasmania; China; Sustainability; Export; Case study.; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103908

VIABILITY THEORY AND SOIL DEVELOPMENT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Huck,   Petra.
We utilize Viability theory to evaluate the effects of CAP. A differential equation describes the dynamic development of soil productivity. If farmers do without entitlement, they are free in soil handling. And as we assume they are short-term profit maximizers, they miss to pay attention to soil conservation. Soil productivity is at risk; correspondingly, economic sustainability is at risk. But if farmers activate their entitlements, they become obliged to soil conserving measures. The model demonstrates that the decision to participate or not at the "entitlement &amp; cross compliance"-program, depends on payment-level and the effects of the decision depend on the dynamics of the environmental system.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Agriculture; Viability Theory; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7582

Új paradigma az agrárgazdaságban: alkalmazkodás a globális kihívásokhoz
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Csete,   Laszlo.
Rendkívül fontos a paradigmák és a külföldi üzemtani, agrár-gazdaságtani tudományos világ eredményeinek, tapasztalatainak a megismerése, de a követő magatartás mellett, helyett a kibontakozó vagy várható változásokra és ezek hatásaira irányuló kutatások kezdeményezése szolgálhatja mindenekelőtt a hazai mező-erdőgazdaság és élelmiszer-ellátás biztonságát, valamint érdekeit a rohamosan átalakuló, egyre komplexebb és veszélyesebb világban. A különféle folyamatok nem, vagy csak alig, rendkívüli erőfeszítések árán és csak igen lassan alakíthatók, befolyásolhatók. Ezért szükségszerű a globális kihívásokhoz való előrelátó alkalmazkodás kutatása, nevezetesen a klímaváltozás, a fenntarthatóság és a globalizáció kihívásaihoz, melyek egyenként is számtalan kutatási...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Paradigma; Kihívások; Klímaváltozás; Fenntarthatóság; Globalizáció; Paradigm; Challenges; Climate change; Sustainability; Globalization; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58601

Application of a multi-criteria decision making process to facilitate the Improvement of the Vásárhelyi Plan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mozsgai,   Katalin; Tombacz,   Endre.
In recent years floods have caused enormous damage and to prevent this the Government has launched a comprehensive programme called the Improvement of the Vásárhelyi Plan (IVP). In step with the original plan, new objectives have emerged, contributing to a solution for the Tisza Region’s problems in water management and regional and rural development. In tandem with the planning stage, a strategic environmental assessment has also been conducted. The assessment’s objective was to develop a multi-criteria system to help choose from a variety of feasible development plans, the ultimate goal being sustainability associated with social, economic, and environmental objectives. In its related decree, the Government recognised the results of the applied...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Improvement of the Vásárhelyi Plan; Sustainability; Multi-criteria decision-making process; Strategic environmental assessment; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46442

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: HUNGARY AFTER EU ACCESSION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kovacs,   Judit Katona.
In Hungary, similarly to developed countries, the share of agriculture in the GDP has declined. Even so, preparation of the sector’s long term strategy is crucial, as the role of agriculture exceeds the results represented in the GDP. Environmental and social functions of agriculture are revaluated in developed countries, and consumers at the end of the food chain actually govern the entire process. This is why information plays an increasingly important role, and gives signals (Verbeke, 2005) to the actors in the economy and society. This research area is diverse (including agricultural policy, environmental policy, rural development and sustainable development), and so I applied an interdisciplinary approach and conducted an integrated examination. The...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agri-environment; Leader; Rural development; Social capital; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43574

ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF LAND USE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bozsik,   Norbert; Magda,   Robert.
The aim of our paper is to show the economic importance of land usage. This topic is very important because land is the basis of industrial, agricultural production, energy and environmental security. The analysis focuses on the relationship between land use and scarcity, sustainability and competitiveness. ------------------------------------------- Cikkünk célja a földhasználat gazdasági jelentőségének bemutatása. Ez a téma azért kiemelt fontosságú, mert a föld az ipari és mezőgazdasági termelés, az energia- és a környezetbiztonság alapja. Az elemzés középpontjában a földhasználat és a korlátozottság, a fenntarthatóság és a verseny¬képesség közti összefüggések állnak.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Land use; Scarcity; Sustainability; Competitiveness; Földhasználat; Korlátozottság; Fenntarthatóság; Versenyképesség.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99206

Economic Aspects of Renewable Energy from Agricultural Waste on the Southern Plains of Texas
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Liu,   Xiaolan; Farmer,   Michael.
Motivated to explore sustainability of renewable energy from bio-waste, this study attempted to discover the economic feasibility of effectively utilizing the existing agricultural waste to generate bio-energy, to complement local nucleus business by meeting specific market demands while assessing the reasonable risk associated with bio-energy production for an area with heavy concentration of agricultural production and serious water constraints. Since the problems to be addressed are all location specified critical points for bio-energy generation, GIS maps are used to identify the locations and the associated attainable volumes of agricultural waste. Meanwhile, reasonable variation and distribution of attainable cotton gin waste was identified by using...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Bio-energy; Agricultural waste; Economic feasibility; Risk; Agribusiness; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61752

The Sustainability of Intensive Livestock Areas (ILAS): Network System and Conflict Potential from the Perspective of Animal Farmers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Otten,   Dennis; van den Weghe,   Herman F.A.
The present study has determined the perceived consequences of an ILA on the production conditions of livestock farming systems based on the advantages of an agglomerated agri-food industry and the disadvantages of an increasing livestock concentration. It became obvious that the benefits of such ILAs can be understood according to their human and social capital. These elements, however, are both associated with a low geographic responsiveness to any increase in problems and so cause land use conflicts to increase. Their perception of the effects of being located within an ILA caused the livestock farmers in this survey to consider their production conditions more when formulating their demands with respect to policies concerning regional development and...
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Livestock; Networks; Conflict potential; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Production Economics.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121844

CAPITAL SOCIAL COMO FATOR DE SUSTENTABILIDADE DAS COOPERATIVAS AGROINDUSTRIAIS, ESTUDO DE CASO.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Moreira,   Jose Cesar Pontes; Mera,   Ruben Dario Mayorga; Khan,   Ahmad Saeed; Mayorga,   Maria Irles De Oliveira; Menezes,   Adriano Sarquis Bezerra De.
O presente trabalho busca relacionar a presença ou ausência de capital social como recurso para a sustentabilidade de cooperativas agroindustriais. Supõe-se que as cooperativas dotadas de elevado nível de estoque de capital social têm maior sustentabilidade que as que possuem um menor nível de capital social. O objetivo é verificar o impacto da existência ou não de capital social no andamento das cooperativas agroindustriais COOPEMOVA e COCEDRO, para isso este trabalho utilizou o estudo de caso das duas cooperativas agroindustriais. Os dados foram conseguidos mediante observação na ambiência das cooperativas e de aplicação de dois questionários. Verificou-se neste trabalho que a COOPEMOVA dotada de maior nível de capital social foi também a que revelou...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Capital social; Sustentabilidade; Cooperativa; Agroindústria; Social capital; Sustainability; Cooperative; Agribusiness; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114172

Outsourcing and Offshoring: Sector Implications for Dynamics, Growth, and Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Weaver,   Robert D.; Chung,   Sung Hoon.
As national economies have integrated through removal of trade barriers, the potential for offshoring production was quickly recognized as a strategy to enhance firm performance. At the same time, labor market reforms opened the door for outsourcing of labor services to specialist firms that supply labor force teams. The implications of these trends for industries that rely on specialized workforces have drawn considerable attention. Both manufacturing and food processing have seen substantial movement toward oursourced labor, yet little research has considered the implications of these trends. In both manufacturing and food processing, specific labor skills are needed that require training and consistency of supply to ensure efficiency in raw material and...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Labor force; Offshoring; Outsourcing; Food System; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59201

Can Forest Management Strategies Sustain The Development Needs Of The Little Red River Cree First Nation?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Krcmar,   Emina; Nelson,   Harry; van Kooten,   G. Cornelis; Vertinsky,   Ilan; Webb,   Jim.
In this study, we explore whether projected socio-economic needs of the Little Red River Cree Nation (LRRCN) can be met using the natural resources to which they have access. To answer this question, we employ a dynamic optimization model to assess the capacity of the available forest base to provide for anticipated future needs of the LRRCN. Results for alternative management strategies indicate that decision-makers face significant tradeoffs in deciding an appropriate management strategy for the forestlands they control.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Boreal forest; First Nations; Forest management; Sustainability; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C61; Q23.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37012

SUSTAINABILITY DIMENSIONS AND INCOME PROSPECTS FOR THE FARMING SYSTEMS IN THE NEW MEMBER STATES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cristoiu,   Adriana; Cobos,   Blanca Lucena; Caceres-Clavero,   Francisco.
An investigation carried out at the farming system level on the sustainability dimensions and agricultural income prospects in the Czech Republic and Lithuania under the implementation of the 2003 common agricultural policy reform reveals (a) the economic dimension as the leading one in terms of the overall sustainability rank position farming systems achieved, and (b) that under certain policy scenario assumptions, adoption of energy crops (Czech Republic) or conversion to organic farming (Lithuania) trigger potentially the highest farm gross income at the 2013 time horizon.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Dimensions; Systems; CAP; NMS; Income; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8514

Innovation and Food System Sustainability: Public Concerns vs Private Interests
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sodano,   Valeria.
The food system negatively affects the environment, human health and the total well being of the society in many ways, causing: soil and water depletion, pollution due to the waste treatments, acid rains, desertification, climate change, ozone depletion and biodiversity loss. The paper endeavors to compare the needs of a sustainable food system with strategies actually carried out at private and public level. It is shown that while the process of trade liberalization is pushing towards market deregulation and decreasing state intervention, corporate social responsibility is very low and unable to tackle the huge environmental problems faced by the food system. The main conclusion of the paper is that the current competitive games played by leading firms...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Innovation; Sustainability; Local food systems; Fresh produce; Participatory democracy; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Industrial Organization.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49891

Kié lesz a föld?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Csete,   Laszlo; Barcza,   Gabriella.
Eltelt két évtized és hazánk, valamint az agrárvilág újra attól hangos, mint két évtizeddel ezelőtt, hogy kié lesz a föld? Ebben sok minden közrejátszott, de mindenekelőtt az, hogy a rendszerváltozáshoz ziláltan érkezett az agrárgazdaság, a vidék, s a földek reprivatizációja helyett kárpótlásra került sor, elmaradt a parasztság rehabilitációja, s főleg hogy egyetlen kormány sem foglalkozott stratégiai, szociális, környezetfenntartó súlyának megfelelően a vidékkel, a mezőgazdasággal. Ugyan 2001-ben lépéseket kezdeményeztek a családi gazdaságok felkarolására, de ez nem folytatódott. Nem jött létre korszerű üzemi szerkezet, a gazdák tőke- és tudáshiánnyal küszködnek, és összefogás, hatásos érdekképviselet, érdekérvényesítő képesség híján kiszolgáltatottak a...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Válsághelyzet; Földtulajdon; Vidékfejlesztés; Fenntarthatóság; Üzemi struktúra; Crisis; Land ownership; Rural development; Sustainability; Farm structure; Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99188

Farmer-based financing of operations in the Niger Valley irrigation schemes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Abernethy,   Charles L.; Sally,   Hilmy; Lonsway,   Kurt; Maman,   Chegou.
Presents the results of case-studies of the functioning of four pump-based irrigation systems in the Niger River Valley. Prospects for sustainability are analyzed, especially in the light of the government's policy of promoting irrigator organizations to take over responsibilities for operation and maintenance.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Irrigation systems; River basin development; Sustainability; Water resources development; Low-lift irrigation; Low-lift pumps; Farmer managed irrigation systems; Farmers' associations; Institution building; Privatization; Performance evaluation; Constraints; Case studies; Financing; Costs; Climate; Food production; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Production Economics; Public Economics.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44573

Addressing the wicked problem of water resource management: An ecosystem services approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hearnshaw,   Edward J.S.; Tompkins,   Jean-Marie; Cullen,   Ross.
This paper develops a systematic assessment of the sustainability of ecosystem services provided by rivers impacted by water storage projects. Given the conflicting preferences amongst stakeholders and the incomplete, uncertain and contradictory understanding about river ecology it is recognized that managing water resources sustainably is a wicked problem. In order to address this wicked problem, the methods of multi-criteria analysis and graph analysis are applied, in accordance with integrated water resource management, to assess the potential of investing in water storage projects and explore for sustainable solutions through the construction of an ecosystem services index.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Ecosystem services index; Graph analysis; Integrated water resource management; Multi-criteria analysis; Sustainability; Wicked problems; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q15; Q25; Q27; Q51; Q58; Q57.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100556

Political Consumerism and Food Community Networks
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cembalo,   Luigi; Migliore,   Giuseppina; Schifani,   Giorgio.
European society, with its steadily increased welfare levels, is not only concerned about food (safety, prices), but also on other aspects such as biodiversity loss, landscape degradation, pollution of water, soil and atmosphere. To a large extent these concerns can be translated into a wider concept named sustainable development defined as a normative concept by Morgan and Sonnino (2008). Sustainability in the food chain means approaching a new emerging vision of a sustainable agro-food system introducing an institutional dimension to take into account. Among different attempts to conjugate such concepts, there is one that is taking place in many Regions of Italy. In the last years spontaneous aggregations of consumers are developing. They are named...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; New Models of Consumption; Solidarity Purchase Groups; Institutions and Economics; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Productivity Analysis; Public Economics.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122004

SMALL FARMS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: IS SMALL MORE SUSTAINABLE?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: D'Souza,   Gerard E.; Ikerd,   John E.
A new, post-industrial, paradigm for agriculture is emerging under the concept of sustainable agriculture. The sustainability paradigm has emerged to solve problems created by the industrial model, primarily environmental pollution and resource base degradation. The role of farm size in this transformation to a more sustainable agriculture is the issue addressed. Using a descriptive approach, and relying on a survey of the literature including emerging paradigms and observations, we conclude that, from a sustainability perspective, the smallest effective size will be the most competitive size for farms, as for other knowledge-based enterprises of the future.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Farm size; Paradigms; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15243

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL ECONOMY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Magda,   Sandor; Magda,   Robert; Marselek,   Sandor.
This paper seeks to provide an overview of those economic social and environmental issues which could be relevant for sustainable development of the rural economy. Rural development is of great significance for the future of both the EU and Hungary. We must reduce migration, create new jobs and focus on sustainability and the principles and goals of environmental protection and nature conservation. Rural economy is a complex and dynamic system, and agriculture should be treated as a part of it. The development of rural settlements and their infrastructure, the manifold exploitation of the agroecological potential, the rationalization of farming remain, extremely important components of rural development.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Competitiveness; Sustainability; Cohesive force; Rural economy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53562

GROWTH, POLICYMAKING, TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Salih,   Thamir M.
For the period between 1957 and 1997, Malaysia’s development is analysed to determine the roles of inputs, planning, trade and government intervention in economic activity. Foreign investment is also analysed. During this period, by international standards, growth that Malaysia experienced was impressive. This growth was achieved through a policy framework that used government planning and investment in conjunction with incentives for the private sector. A unique feature of Malaysia’s planning was its call for social justice to advance the economic interest of its less economically privileged population. By adopting amalgam of development strategies and policies, policymakers were successful in improving the socio-economic status of the majority of the...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Economic Development; Export; Growth; Investment; Planning; Sustainability; Country Studies: Malaysia.; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124437

Syngenta and Sustainability: Implications for Corporate Strategy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rankin,   Amber; Boehlje,   Michael.
This poster was inspired by a case study developed by Syngenta, a global crop protection and seed company, in collaboration with Purdue University.  As a company dedicated to promoting innovation, delivering value, and being a leader in its industry, Syngenta faces both challenges and opportunities with respect to the sustainability debate. This poster presents the major issues of sustainability in a global context, in an agribusiness context, and finally in the specific case of Syngenta.  The concluding discussion represents the perspectives of a group of agribusiness professionals that discussed this case study in an executive education program on the Purdue University campus.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Strategy; Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61309

Irrigation management transfer in Mexico:  A strategy to achieve irrigation district sustainability
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnson,   Sam H., III.
Describes the process of transfer of irrigation districts in Mexico from public ownership to joint management, where responsibility for irrigation O&amp;M is shared between the public irrigation agency and water user associations. It evaluates the sustainability of transferred systems and discusses needed changes.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Privatization; Participatory management; Agricultural production; Sustainability; Private sector; Public sector; Economic aspects; Water users' associations; Investment; Agricultural policy; Irrigated farming; Water law; User charges; Land ownership; Mexico; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Land Economics/Use; Marketing; Production Economics.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52799

DYNAMIC MODELS, EXTERNALITIES AND SUSTAINABILITY IN AGRICULTURE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cacho,   Oscar J.
The goal of sustainability in the management of natural resources and agricultural systems has received increasing attention during the 1990's. The many dimensions of the problem have been extensively discussed in the literature and a recognition of the interaction  between economic, biological and social objectives have led to an acceptance of its multidisciplinary nature. When studying sustainability in agriculture, two aspects which cannot be ignored are (i) any measure must include economic as well as biological criteria and (ii) the dynamic nature of the production system and the environment (both physical and economic) must be accounted for.  The goal of sustainable agricultural practices at the microeconomic level is explored in this paper, in an...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Dynamic modelling; Bioeconomics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12894

SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES: HOW SHOULD GOVERNMENT COORDINATE FARM REGULATIONS AND POLICY?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnson,   Larry A.
Agricultural sustainability is an evolving process ever-seeking a balance between society's economic, environmental and social demands.  Governmental policy and regulations while attempting to correct adverse externalities, have at times within themselves created adverse externalities.  Failures often lie within the policies themselves, but poor coordination among government agencies is also at fault.  This paper outlines a number of coordination issues and attempts to show how the empowerment of communities through ecosystem management is a partial solution to environmental degradation.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Environmental regulation; Government policy; Regulation; Sustainability; Ecosystem management; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1994
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15437

Factors of population decline in rural areas and answers given in EU member states’ strategies
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Karcagi-Kovats,   Andrea; Katona-Kovacs,   Judit.
One of the most pressing phenomena in recent decades in Europe’s rural areas is population decline. This article summarises how the national sustainable development strategies (NSDS) and the national rural development programmes (NRDP) of the European Union (EU) Member States conceptualise processes of depopulation of rural areas. It gives a systematic overview of the main factors of population decline identified in the strategies and programmes and lists the objectives set and measures proposed by these documents. Although the majority of documents identify the depopulation process and all consider it to be a negative phenomenon, there are no commonly accepted objectives or principles regarding the desired extent of demographic changes in rural areas: the...
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: European Union; Rural population decline; Strategies; Sustainability; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122451

Zur Entwicklung der Hauswirtschaften im Verlaufe des Transformationsprozesses in der Ukraine
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nedoborovskyy,   Andriy; Schulze,   Eberhard.
In the course of transition, the role of household plots in agricultural production in Ukraine has grown substantially in importance. The key reason for this is the integration of household plots into large agricultural enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the economic efficiency of household plots. In addition, the paper aims at testing whether economic theory is able to explain the behaviour of households in this regard. Two important characteristics in the evolution of household plots’ in Ukraine have been identified. One is the integration of household plots into large agricultural enterprises. This improves the efficiency of these plots through access to inputs. The other is that about 22.4 % of household plots farmers, who also worked...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Ukraine; Household plots; Sustainability; Gross margins; Consumer/Household Economics; Farm Management.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97179

Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Marta-Costa,   Ana Alexandra; Poeta,   A.
Currently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Decision taking; Planning; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44252

Assessment of performance and impact of irrigation and water resources  systems in Taiwan and Sri Lanka: Final report
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sakthivadivel,   Ramasamy; Aloysius,   Noel; Matsuno,   Yutaka.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Irrigation systems; Water scarcity; Water allocation; Water supply; Water quality; Water distribution; Decision making; Water management; Regression analysis; Performance evaluation; Sustainability; Irrigated farming; Agricultural development; Farm size; Irrigation management; Farmers' associations; Rain; Paddy cultivation; Crop yield; Costs; Productivity; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Productivity Analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92774

Issues, impacts, and prospects of the first transgenic crops tolerant to a herbicide. The case of glyphosate-tolerant soybean in the USA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bonny,   Sylvie.
IAAE 2009 International Conference
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Genetically modified crop; GMO; Biotechnology; Agro-economic impact; Environmental impact; Sustainability; Soybean; Pesticide; Weed; Prospects; Herbicide; Glyphosate; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Q55; O3; O13; O51.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51449

AS POLÍTICAS DE DESENVOLVIMENTO RURAL SUSTENTÁVEL NO ACRE EM MEIO AO PROCESSO DE GLOBALIZAÇÃO
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Souza,   Elyson Ferreira De; Souza,   Gisele Elaine De Araujo Batista; Faria,   Valeria Correia De.
Este trabalho trata sobre as políticas de desenvolvimento rural realizadas no Acre e a correlação destas políticas com a sustentabilidade em meio ao processo de globalização. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar se a política de desenvolvimento rural denominada Pólos Agroflorestais efetivamente se enquadra nos pressupostos do desenvolvimento sustentável. Para esse trabalho, buscaremos compor o contexto em que essas políticas foram implementadas no estado do Acre. A guisa de uma conclusão, acreditamos que os Pólos Agroflorestais só podem representar alternativas de desenvolvimento sustentável nesta sociedade globalizada se o desenvolvimento por ele proposto contemplar em plenitude os aspetos econômicos, sociais, ambientais e político-institucionais,...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultura Familiar; Pólos Agroflorestais; Sustentabilidade; Family Agriculture; Poles Agroflorestais; Sustainability; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107923

Increasing environmental sustainability by incorporating stakeholders' intensities of preferences into the policy formation
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zendehdel,   Kamran; Rademaker,   Michael; De Baets,   Bernard; Van Huylenbroeck,   Guido.
In this paper a tractable methodology is presented to improve environmental sustainability by incorporating stakeholders’ intensities of preferences into the decision making process. The environmental decision making will be controversial when there is a complex issue at hand. The difficulty comes up as stakeholders cannot see how their preferences are taken into account in the policy making process. To reduce this controversy, we propose a qualitative method to elicit stakeholders’ intensities of preferences towards a set of environmental services. Subsequently, the elicited intensities of preferences are aggregated by a mathematical approach on each single criterion. Finally, a multi-criteria approach is applied to use the aggregated values across all...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Stakeholder's preferences; Tractable decision making; Social support; Qualitative valuation; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44206

FARM-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF CONVERSION TO SUSTAINABLE FARMING PRACTICES IN THE NEW MEMBERS STATES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cristoiu,   Adriana; Cobos,   Blanca Lucena; Caceres-Clavero,   Francisco.
A field survey carried out in 2005 in the Czech Republic and Lithuania to investigate the determinants of converting to organic farming reveals that farmer's own belief and the intrinsic characteristics of the farm increase the likelihood of conversion. If the process of certification as an organic farm implies important changes of the structure of the farm, it lowers the propensity of farmers to consider the conversion to organic. When considering the case of family farms, results of a logit model reveal that apart from farmers' own belief in the environmental or food quality benefits of organic farming, availability of information/own knowledge about the characteristics of technology to be adopted, availability of extra labour, and membership to farmers'...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Organic; Adoption; NMS; CAP.; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8512

A SUSTENTABILIDADE DAS RESERVAS EXTRATIVISTAS PELA PERSPECTIVA DA ECONOMIA ECOLÓGICA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cavalcanti,   Francisco Carlos Da Silveira; Maciel,   Raimundo Claudio Gomes; Mangabeira,   Joao Alfredo De Carvalho; Reydon,   Bastiaan Philip.
As Reservas Extrativistas (RESEX) são áreas de domínio público, com uso concedido às populações extrativistas tradicionais, cuja subsistência baseia-se no extrativismo e na agricultura de subsistência e na criação de animais de pequeno porte, e têm como objetivos básicos proteger os meios de vida e a cultura dessas populações, e assegurar o uso sustentável dos recursos naturais da unidade. Porém, o aumento da área para agropecuária dentro das reservas vem aumentando e, assim, o desmatamento. O presente estudo tem como objetivo promover uma reflexão sobre a regulamentação ambiental e suas conseqüências, bem como sobre a organização popular como instrumento capaz de deter o desmatamento na Amazônia. Neste sentido, as RESEX, resultado da luta política e...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade; Reservas Extrativistas; Economia Ecológica; Amazônia; Regulamentação ambiental; Sustainability; Extractivist Reserves; Ecological Economics; Amazon; Environmental regulation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113395

Institutional design principles for accountability in large irrigation systems.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Merrey,   Douglas J.
Argues that single irrigation systems managed by autonomous system-specific organizations accountable to their customers, perform better and are more sustainable than those managed by agencies dependent on the government, or by agencies responsible for multiple systems. Selected cases are reviewed and the plausibility of this hypothesis established. General recommendations are made for policy makers designing irrigation reform programs.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Government-managed irrigation systems; Large-scale systems; Organizational design; Water users' associations; Water users; Farmers' associations; Farmer participation; Sustainability; Water rights; Performance evaluation; Performance indexes; Participatory management; Privatization; Policy; Research methods; Case studies Nepal; Sri Lanka; Indonesia; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Financial Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Marketing; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Public Economics.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52732

Agricultural Commercialization in the Uplands of Northern Vietnam: How to Achieve Both Poverty Reduction and Environmental Sustainability Goals?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Keil,   Alwin; Saint-Macary,   Camille; Zeller,   Manfred.
Income growth and urbanization in developing countries have enlarged markets for highvalue agricultural commodities. However, there are concerns that lacking access to physical, financial, and human capital, as well as infrastructure and institutions limit the ability of the poor to participate in and benefit from such commercial agricultural activities. There may further be a trade-off between wealth enhancing effects of intensive commercial agriculture and adverse long-term effects on farmers’ livelihoods due to natural resource degradation. This study provides empirical evidence on these crucial issues and derives related policy recommendations using the example of Vietnam. Here, economic growth has boosted the demand for animal products and,...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural commercialization; Maize cultivation; Sustainability; Tobit regression; Vietnam; Landwirtschaftliche Kommerzialisierung; Maisanbau; Nachhaltigkeit; Tobit-Regression; Vietnam; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114487

Agricultural Environmental Indicators: Using OECD Agri-Environmental Indicators to Assess New Zealand Kiwifruit Orchards
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Saunders,   Caroline M.; Kaye-Blake,   William; Campbell,   Rachel; Benge,   J.
Agri-environmental indicators (AEIs) developed by the OECD have been used to assess the environmental performance of the agricultural sector in developed countries. The Agricultural Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) in New Zealand has investigated using these AEIs to assess the performance of individual kiwifruit orchards. ARGOS is following panels of orchards to investigate the impacts of organic and conventional management systems on economic, sociological, and environmental dimensions of farming. The environmental monitoring of these orchards has provided data for calculating AEIs. The paper discusses the performance of ARGOS orchards, the impact of management systems, and the implications for future research.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental indicators; Kiwifruit; Organic agriculture; Sustainability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97163

Sustainability, Externalities and Economics: The Case of Temperate Perennial Grazing Systems in NSW
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Jones,   Randall E.; Dowling,   Peter.
The replacement of perennial grass species by undesirable annual grass weeds not only results in lower productivity but is also contributes to a range of external costs. In particular, shallow rooted annuals result in greater deep drainage and therefore a greater potential for salinity, and greater volumes of runoff of poor quality water to streams. In this paper an economic framework for examining the sustainability issues of a perennial grazing system on the NSW Central Tablelands is presented. This involves a combination of simulation and dynamic programming models, with the state of the system represented by variables for the perennial grass composition and soil fertility. The paper examines a range of management strategies that increase the perennial...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Perennial pasture; Sustainability; Externalities; Bioeconomic modelling; Dynamic programming; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; 160.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42504

CARACTERIZAÇÃO DOS ASPECTOS E IMPACTOS ECONÔMICOS, SOCIAIS E AMBIENTAIS DO SETOR SUCROALCOOLEIRO PAULISTA.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alvarenga,   Rafael Pazeto; Queiroz,   Timoteo Ramos.
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a caracterização dos aspectos e impactos econômicos, sociais e ambientais da monocultura da cana-de-açúcar. Isso servirá para que posteriormente se possa fazer um estudo sobre os impactos que a monocultura da cana acarretará a região de Tupã/SP. Em sua confecção foram consultados sites governamentais, teses e dissertações como também bibliografia pertinente ao tema. Os problemas sociais e ambientais causados pela cana nem sempre recebem o destaque merecido. O setor sucroalcooleiro é a fonte de renda de milhares de trabalhadores e o responsável pela produção de um combustível limpo e renovável. No entanto, a forma como a mão-de-obra é utilizada no corte da cana é exaustiva e degradante. Seus subprodutos vinhaça e...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Cana-de-açúcar; Tupã; Sustentabilidade; Aspectos e impactos ambiental; Econômico; Social; Sugar cane; Tupã; Sustainability; Aspects and impacts economic; Social and environmental; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113960

Ground Water Quantity and Quality Management: Agricultural Production and Aquifer Salinization over Long Time Scales
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Knapp,   Keith C.; Baerenklau,   Kenneth A.
An economic model of ground water salinization is developed. Starting from a full, high-quality aquifer, there is an initial extraction period, an intermediate waste disposal period, and a final drainage period. Drainage management is initially source control and reuse, but eventually culminates in evaporation basins and a system steady-state. This process occurs over long time scales but is consistent with historical observation. Efficiency is qualitatively similar to common property though quantitative magnitudes differ substantially. Regulatory pricing instruments are developed to support the efficient allocation. The system is not sustainable in that net returns generally decline through time until the steady-state.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Common property; Dynamic programming; Efficiency; Ground water; Irrigation; Salinity; Sustainability; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8633

SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES IN MARGINAL RURAL AREAS OF SERBIA: A CASE STUDY OF DIMITROVGRAD MUNICIPALITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rodriguez,   Juan-Pablo.
This paper is based on a 2009 case study research on the role and impacts of rural initiatives in Dimitrovgrad, South-eastern Serbia region. This area is of interest, because of local efforts to conserve autochthonous livestock breeds, and the work of smallholders and independent professionals involved farming and rural tourism activities. The research used participant visits to initiative places, drawing on farm visits, meetings with stakeholders and analysis of secondary information. The study highlights that local organizations are running without link to initiatives. Although, Serbia country has well structured rural developments programs, those still are harmonising. Thus, through Actor-Network approach is suggested which turn around a farm manager....
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Rural initiatives; Local agrobiodiversity; Sustainability; South-Eastern Serbia; Agribusiness; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104636

Kihívás: a fenntarthatóság megvalósítása vidéken
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Csete,   Laszlo.
A folyamatosságra, vagy másképpen a fenntarthatóságra irányuló emberi magatartás kívánalma bibliai múltra tekint vissza, s az is jól ismert, hogy a természeti erőforrásokat hasznosító mező-erdőgazdasági tevékenységekben, a józan gazdálkodó mindennapjaiban ezek „újratermelése” a gazdálkodás szerves részét képezi, de a folyamatosság, az előrelátás, a beosztás jellemzi a családi élet mindennapjait is. Ennek ellenére – néhány évtizeddel ezelőtt – az emberiség jövőjéért aggódó szakemberek szűk csoportja a fenntartható fejlődést megoldandó tennivalóként tárta a világ elé a természeti környezet, az élővilág gyorsuló pusztulása, a természeti erőforrások mértéktelen kizsarolása miatt. A globalizáció, a klímaváltozás és a közelmúltban kibontakozott...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Fenntarthatóság; Paradigmaváltás; Termelés; Fogyasztás; Élhetőség; Sustainability; Change of paradigm; Production; Consumption; Suitability for living; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99080

Managing Conflict Over Natural Resources in Greater Kordofan, Sudan: Some Recurrent Patterns and Governance Implications
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Siddig,   El Fatih Ali; El-Harizi,   Khalid; Prato,   Bettina.
Despite the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which brought to an end 20 years of civil war in the Sudan, this country continues to experience smaller-scale conflicts, particularly around access to and control of natural resources. Some observers lay the blame for this on ethnopolitical or tribal divisions. However, this paper argues that there are a variety of factors at play behind these conflicts, notably the combination of resource scarcity with a crisis of governance that is particularly evident in transitional areas like the Kordofan region. To gain a sense of the range of conflicts around natural resources in Kordofan, the authors reviewed existing records such as government archives; conducted interviews with politicians, federal and state...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Conflict management; Natural resource management; Small farmers; Land use; Livelihoods; Public spending; Infrastructure; Property rights; Governance; Sustainability; Sudan; East Africa; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42402

Impact of the ‘Family-firm life cycle’ on the Management Processes Involved in Sustainable Glasshouse Horticulture
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Taragola,   Nicole; Van Lierde,   Dirk; Van Huylenbroeck,   Guido.
In Flanders glasshouse vegetables and ornamental plants are typically produced at family businesses. At this type of businesses the objectives and long-term firm developments are influenced by the so called ‘family-firm life cycle’. In many cases the firm shows a life cycle that corresponds with the life cycle of the entrepreneur. The objective of the paper is to test the hypothesis that the ‘family-firm life cycle’ will have an impact on the personal and business characteristics, objectives and the quality of the management processes involved in sustainable glasshouse horticulture. As sustainable horticulture integrates the three P’s (People, Planet, Profit) special attention is paid to human resource, environmental and financial management. Data for the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Farm management; Horticulture; Sustainability; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44129

Summaries of Survey Responses of Household Heads in Three Forest Villages in the Midnapore District of West Bengal, India: Use of Forest Resources by Villagers, Forest Sustainability and Managment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tisdell,   Clement A.; Roy,   Kartik C.; Ghose,   Ananda.
In 2000, household heads of three villages located in or near forests in the south of West Bengal, India, were interviewed using a structured questionnaire1. The questionnaire is attached as an Appendix to this paper. The questions asked were designed to provide information about the extent of the dependence of households on state forests for their livelihood (cash income and subsistence needs), any differences in the degree of their forest dependence according to gender, threats to the sustainability of forest resources, the expected sustainability of the income of villagers from forest resources, as well as to provide data about forest management practices, such as a joint forest management. The latter involves cooperation between villagers and the West...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Forest Management; Use of Forest Resources; Sustainability; Consumer/Household Economics; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100212

Sustainability: The Economic Bottom Line
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tisdell,   Clement A.
Points out that sustainability as such does not provide a clearcut guide to policy. First one has to decide what is to be sustained. If this is agreed, it must be in an operational from. However, difficulties may still emerge since opinions may differ about how to achieve. This is illustrated by differences in the views of economists about how sustainable development is to be achieved. Orthodox economists stress the importance of the accumulation of man-made capital to achieve this end whereas neo-Malthusians stress the importance of conserving natural resource and environmental capital. Both take an anthropocentric point of view. For political reasons the neo-Malthusian has had little support but it may eventually turn out to be correct. Economics is...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Conservation; Sustainability; Biodiversity; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48004

Dinâmica de sistemas aplicada à gestão de recursos hídricos em bacia hidrográfica
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Vieira,   Wilson da Cruz.
The objective of this work was to analyze both the allocation of water among competing demands in a river basin and pricing policies for water. Based on a theoretical model that maximizes the net social benefits from the allocation of water over a finite period of time, it was used the dynamic systems approach to analyze various issues related to water resources management in a river basin, such as sustainability of water resources, and water pricing. The model was applied to the Araguari River Basin, located in the State of Minas Gerais.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: River basin; System dynamics; Water resources; Water pricing; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53856

How A Cap-and-Trade Policy of Green House Gases Could Alter the Face of Agriculture in the South: A Spatial and Production Level Analysis.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nalley,   Lawton Lanier; Popp,   Michael P.; Fortin,   Corey.
With the Waxman-Markey Bill passing the House and the Obama administration’s push to reduce carbon emissions, the likelihood of the implementation of some form of a carbon policy is increasing. This study estimates the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the six largest crops produced in Arkansas using 63 different production practices as documented by University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. From these GHG estimates a baseline state “carbon footprint” was estimated and a hypothetical cap-and-trade carbon reduction of 5, 10, and 20% was levied on Arkansas agriculture. Results show that while a modest reduction in GHG emissions (5%) would only affect crop allocations amongst certain crops while marginally reducing state net returns, a 20%...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Cap-and-Trade; Carbon; Sustainability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q28; Q52; Q54; Q56.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55717

Structural Change in EU Agriculture and the Supply of Social Attributes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hill,   Berkeley; Blandford,   David.
The social attributes that agriculture is assumed to provide in its multifunctional role are analysed. Links with structural characteristics are examined and questions raised on the extent to which these are dependent on sustaining the present structure of EU agriculture. The nature of an efficient policy to provide these attributes is explored, with pointers for the next round of rural development policy. Our conclusion is that non-agricultural policies may be far more significant to the supply of social attributes than those conventionally seen as agricultural and rural developmental, suggesting that general community regeneration policies and "rural proofing" of general policies will be important for the future.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Multifunctionality; Social attributes; Sustainability; Rural development; CAP; Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24684

Hogyan érvényesítheti az alkotmány a föld közfunkcióit?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tanka,   Endre.
A történelmi korszakváltás a fenntarthatóság egyik létfeltételévé teszi, hogy a birtokrendben az állam közhatalmi beavatkozással érvényesítse a föld társadalom- és gazdaságszervező közfunkcióit. Ennek jogi pillére olyan alkotmányos intézmény lehet, amely a Magyar Állam területét alkotó termőföldet tulajdoni formájától függetlenül a nemzet vagyonának minősíti. Az állam az államterületét alkotó, földre fennálló alkotmányos önrendelkezési joga alapján valamennyi jogalanyra kiterjedően szabályozza és közérdekből korlátozhatja a termőföld-tulajdonszerzés és a földhasználat feltételeit.  Magyarország a földmoratórium uniós meghosszabbításával a közérdekű birtokpolitika megvalósítására további három évet nyert, és a föld nemzeti vagyonná minősítése alapján...
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Értékalapú birtokpolitika; Fenntarthatóság; Köztulajdon; A termőföld nemzeti vagyon minősége; Value-based land estate policy; Sustainability; Public goods; Arable land as a national asset; Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119891

A mezőgazdasági területek érzékenységének és adaptációs képességének mérési lehetőségei
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Farkas-Fekete,   Maria.
A tanulmány alapvető célja az, hogy hozzájáruljon az érzékenység, sérülékenység és adaptációs képesség vizsgálatának módszertanához. A kutatások eredményei felhívják a figyelmet arra, hogy bár az európai vidék összessége egyre sérülékenyebbé válik a különböző globális kihívásokra, a veszélyeztetettség mértéke régiónként eltérő. A kutatások eredményei megerősítették az IPCC 3. jelentésében megfogalmazott hipotéziseket, melyek szerint a gazdag országok ugyanolyan veszélyeztetettség mellett is kevésbé sérülékenyek, mivel nagyobb az alkalmazkodóképességük. A klímaváltozás, amely pozitív és negatív hatást is gyakorol Európa mezőgazdaságára, módosítja az eddigi komparatív előnyöket, illetve hátrányokat. Gazdasági szempontból Dél- és Közép-Kelet-Európa minden...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Fenntarthatóság; Klímaváltozás; Érzékenység; Sérülékenység; Veszélyeztetettség; Adaptáció; Sustainability; Climate change; Vulnerability; Sensitivity; Adaptability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92481

Caring Dairy: A Sustainable Dairy Farming Initiative in Europe
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: van Calker,   Klaas Jan; Antink,   Rudi H.J. Hooch; Beldman,   Alfons C.G.; Mauser,   Anniek.
Interest in the concept of sustainability in dairy farming has grown as a result of the continuous pressure on farm incomes, occurrence of animal diseases with a major impact on the image of dairy farming, concerns about animal welfare, and environmental problems caused by agriculture. There are, however, still many gaps in the knowledge regarding sustainable dairy farming. Respecting the earth and the environment and "giving back to community" is a fully integrated part of the Mission Statement of ice cream maker Ben &amp; Jerry's. Following this mission, they have initiated a sustainable dairy farming project, "Caring Dairy", for the European production based in the Netherlands. The aim of Caring Dairy is to secure dairy production in a more sustainable...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Dairy farming; Strategic management; Bottom-up approach; Chain partners; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24234

Is Local Enough? Some Arguments for Regional Food Systems
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Clancy,   Kate; Ruhf,   Kathryn.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Regional Food Systems; Local Food; Food Needs; Sustainability; Development and Diversity; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93827

O ECOTURISMO COMO ALTERNATIVA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL PARA COMUNIDADES DE PEQUENO PORTE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zapparoli,   Irene Domenes.
O ecoturismo está entre as novas atividades no meio rural e se apresenta como uma atividade alternativa para vencer os problemas sócio-econômicos. Assim questiona-se: como as novas atividades no meio rural, que vem ganhando destaque na região, são percebidas pela população? A metodologia se vale de fontes bibliográficas e base empírica. Para a elaboração deste estudo propõe-se um projeto de loteamento de chácaras para fins de ecoturismo, em Sertanópolis-Pr. Metodologia empregada para investigar a organização social se vale da ecologia humana. Com a ecologia humana estudam-se diferentes níveis de organização social durante a pesquisa. A pesquisa foi realizada em Sertanópolis, em outubro de 2003, através da aplicação de 312 questionários, aplicados aos...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Ecoturismo; Sustentabilidade; Comunidade de pequeno porte; Environment; Sustainability; Small size communities; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/112620

Multi-Stakeholder Sustainability Alliances in Agri-Food Chains: A Framework for Multi-Disciplinary Research
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dentoni,   Domenico; Peterson,   H. Christopher.
The IFAMR is published by (IFAMA)the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Stakeholder; Sustainability; Alliances; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Partnerships.; Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; Q130.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119976

Minimum economic scale of an efficient farms in dairy industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nagy,   Adrian Szilard; Dekan,   Tamas; Lorinczi,   Krisztian; Peto,   Karoly.
The aim of our research is to determine - on the grounds of the facts of an average dairy family farm – the necessary economic size to provide subsistence for a four member family, which solely has income from this activity. Our study used three different calculation models. The models featured considerable differences. In the first one the primary aim of the producer is to survive, therefore the achieved gross income in farming includes neither amortization costs, nor the arising costs of repair and maintenance. On the contrary, the primary aim of the second model is to keep up the technology and the stock, which could fulfil the requirements of simple reproduction. The third model assumes a technological development corresponding with 10% of the invested...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Dairy industry; Family farm businesses; Economic size; Sustainability; Standard Gross Margin.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58103

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES ON CONSTRUCTING A COMPOSITE INDICATOR TO MEASURE AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gomez-Limon,   Jose Antonio; Riesgo,   Laura.
The aim of this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of alternative methods on constructing composite indicators to measure global sustainability of the agricultural sector. This comparison is implemented empirically on the irrigated agriculture of the Duero basin (Spain) as a case study. For this purpose, this research uses a dataset of indicators previously calculated for different farm-types and policy scenarios. The results allow to establish a hierarchy of the policy scenarios on the basis of the level of sustainability achieved. Furthermore, analyzing the heterogeneity of different farms-types in each scenario, is also possible to determine the main features of the most sustainable farms in each case. All this information is useful in order...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Composite Indicators; Irrigated agriculture; Scenarios; Agricultural policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6489

Influencia social y sostenibilidad en el uso de recursos renovables
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Almudi,   Isabel; Choliz,   Julio Sanchez.
En este trabajo presentamos un modelo en el que las actividades extractivas referidas a un recurso natural renovable, si son abusivas, generan algún tipo de reacción social que modifica las preferencias sociales. Esta modificación es tenida en cuenta por el planificador a la hora de decidir cual es la asignación intertemporal óptima entre consumo y stock del recurso. Bajo estas nuevas condiciones, nos preguntamos cómo cambia el stock del recurso natural en el estado estacionario y qué puede decirse acerca de la posibilidad de sobreexplotación en comparación con los modelos tradicionales en los que no se considera reacción social. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que bajo estas nuevas condiciones el stock del estado estacionario aumenta y el comportamiento...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Renewable Resources; Sustainability; Environmental Information; Overuse; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q50; Q20; C61.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8003

Going, Going, Almost Gone: How the Depletion of the Alluvial Aquifer Will Affect Cropping Decisions in the Arkansas Delta
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Popp,   Michael P.; Nalley,   Lawton Lanier; Vickery,   Gina B.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has determined that agricultural irrigation in Arkansas’ Delta is unsustainable with significant negative economic repercussions on producers net returns affected by the Alluvial aquifer.  This study examines how irrigation restrictions in that region would affect county net returns to crop production.  It also considers the effect of planting less water-intensive bioenergy crops in the event biofuel markets become a reality.   A constrained optimization model determines acreage allocations and net returns under three irrigation scenarios: i) no irrigation restrictions, ii) irrigation restrictions that lead to a sustainable Alluvial aquifer, and iii) irrigation restrictions that would lengthen the life of the Alluvial...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Ground water irrigation; Sustainability; Biomass crops; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46557

POTENTIAL FOR HUNGARIAN GRASSLANDS IN INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nagy,   Geza.
Sustainability and multifunctionality, two key principles, which will determine future development in any activities. On the bases of these principles, society as a whole has already outlined future expectations towards rural areas. Rural functions (economic, ecological and socio-cultural ones) have been declared in European Charter for Rural Areas. To what extend can different rural development initiatives meet these functions? The question may be answered by using the method of multifunctional rural resource analysis (NAGY, 2007). The paper is investigating the potential for Hungarian grasslands by using this methodology. It is concluded that our grasslands, as land use systems in their present conditions can participate in integrated rural development...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Multifunctionality; Grasslands; Future potential; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53563

A global perspective on water scarcity and poverty: achievements and challenges for water resource management
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Barker,   Randolph; van Koppen,   Barbara; Shah,   Tushaar.
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Water scarcity; Poverty; Water resources development; Groundwater management; Food security; Irrigated farming; Agricultural production; Tube well irrigation; Sustainability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Crop Production/Industries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Production Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118302

CERTIFICATION SCHEMES FOR BIOFUEL SUSTAINABILITY WILL NOT WORK
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ogg,   Clayton W.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Biofuel; Certification; Sustainability; Deforestation; Food Prices; Ethanol; Biodiesel; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; O13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120004

On the Distribution of Net Benefits from Sustainability Initiatives in Agri-Food Supply Chains
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ross,   Brent; Amanor-Boadu,   Vincent; Ross,   Kara L.
Sustainability initiatives are frequently imposed on upstream supply chain members by their more powerful downstream partners.  This paper assesses the challenges of estimating costs and benefits for participants and the difficulties associated with identifying their locations and effects in the supply chain.  The paper argues that the success and endurance of agri-food supply chains that purport to pursue sustainability objectives depend critically on the distribution of the associated costs and benefits.  It calls on supply chain leaders to give careful consideration to the distribution of net benefits across the chain to ensure that opportunism and moral hazard are minimized.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Strategy; Food; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61529

Agriculture in a Water-Scarce World
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gilmour,   Brad; Jotanovic,   Aleksandar; Gurung,   Rajendra Kumar; Polcyn,   Tania; Deng,   Hugh.
With a relatively small population and 7% of the world's available freshwater resources, Canada is well placed for a world of water scarcity where the real value of water in its many uses becomes more and more apparent.  However, action is necessary to ensure that Canada continues to benefit from the social, economic and environmental goods and services derived from water resources. Experience and analysis suggests that policy and incentives play critical roles in the sustainable exploitation of natural resources. In particular, properly valuing water in all its forms and uses appears to be critical.   Analysis abroad has underlined the benefits of clearly delineating the roles of regulators, resource managers, infrastructure operators and service...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Water; Governance; Scarcity; Incentives; Sustainability; Valuation; Accountability; Transparency; Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Relations/Trade; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46689

Assessment of sustainability in organic and conventional farms in Tunisia: The case of olive-growing farms in the region of Sfax
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Laajimi,   Abderraouf; Ben Nasr,   J.; Guesmi,   Anis.
This research has been carried out to study the sustainability of the Tunisian olive-growing farms and to compare the sustainability level of organic with conventional farms. A survey was conducted with 62 olive growers in the region of Sfax in Tunisia. First, a diagnosis of the situation of the farms was undertaken comparing between organic and conventional farms. Second, an empirical analysis was achieved to asses the sustainability of organic farms versus conventional farms following the French “IDEA” method developed by Vilain [1] 1. The “IDEA” indicators showed a greater ranking for the organic farms. The analysis indicated the sustainability of organic farming on the three scales adopted; ecological scale, through the soil fertility and reduction of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Organic farming; Tunisia; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44463

Microfinance: Does It Hold Its Promises? A Survey of Recent Literature
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Khawari,   Aliya.
Poverty alleviation has been the main target of developmental projects world-wide. However, only a few ideas have stirred so much attention in the last two decades as that of the provision of microfinance through specialised institutions. This paper provides a survey of the vast literature that has developed in this field. Though most of the evidence and literature on the subject appears self-praising, nonetheless there is much more to the concept than one can imagine. The establishment of microfinance institutions (MFIs) world-wide for the provision of collateral free loans to the poor through mechanisms and instruments not known to normal commercial banks has set new milestones in the field of financial services. With 900 million households in the less...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Microfinance institutions; Group lending; Sustainability; Target groups; Financial Economics; 012; 016.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26394

Agri-food supply chains and sustainability-related issues: evidence from across the Scottish agri-food economy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Leat,   Philip M.K.; Lamprinopoulou-Kranis,   Chrysa; Revoredo-Giha,   Cesar; Kupiec-Teahan,   Beata.
This paper examines the influence of agri-food supply chains on the sustainability-related activities and decisions of Scottish farmers, as well as the treatment of sustainability issues by food processors and retailers themselves. It is based on 8 whole chain case studies covering some of Scotland’s major agricultural products. The cases identify differing levels of understanding and activities related to sustainability, but widespread acknowledgement that sustainability involves the development of chains within which all parties can achieve acceptable profits. Indeed, collaborative supply chains, which seek improved economic performance, frequently assist environmental and social sustainability. The main drivers of sustainability are found to be the cost...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Food; Supply chain; Agribusiness; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109424

Irrigation decision-making processes and conditions: a case study of Sri Lanka's Kirindi Oya Irrigation Settlement Project
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nijman,   Charles.
Detailed study of decision-making processes and managerial conditions of the Kirindi Oya Irrigation and Settlement Project in Sri Lanka, adopting a management perspective in the analysis of the performance of this major irrigation system in Sri Lanka. This paper is a companion document to "Irrigation management processes and conditions" by the same author.
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Decision making; Farmer-agency interactions; Accountability; Case studies; Sustainability; River basin development; Water allocation; Water requirements; Project appraisal; Indicators; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114040

Climate change risk and response
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kahrl,   Fredrich; Roland-Holst,   David W.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Energy; Sustainability; Climate change; Risk; Economic conditions; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46721

Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ackerman,   Frank; Gallagher,   Kevin P.
Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world's environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an "efficient" allocation of society's resources. As a result, many contemporary policymakers advocate rolling back regulations in order to let the market protect the environment. There is a fundamental distinction between the use of the market as a tool to help achieve society's goals, and as a blueprint for society's goals; the market is a reasonable policy tool but not a reasonable blueprint. The market as blueprint fails because there are significant public purposes that cannot be achieved by prices and markets alone. Five major...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Economic theory; Environmental policy; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15593

Sustainable Management of Resource Consumption Agriculture - Enlightenment from Organic Agriculture of Japan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Luo,   Fang; Xu,   Dan.
Based on the content of organic agriculture, sustainable management of agriculture in Japan is analyzed from four aspects. Firstly, organization and management institutions and relevant laws and regulations of organic agriculture in Japan are introduced. Secondly, certification procedure of organic agricultural products is briefly described, that is, determining production plan, reorganizing cultivation and management records, making certification application, on-site inspection, offering certification, and professional work after certification. Thirdly, management of organic agriculture in Japan is analyzed; and the six principal forms of organic agriculture in Japan are summarized. The four basic characteristics of agricultural product circulation and...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Japan; Organic agriculture; Sustainability; China; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93454

Influence of tree species on the herbaceous understory and soil chemical characteristics in a silvopastoral system in semi-arid northeastern Brazil
Provedor de dados: 90
Autores: Menezes,R. S. C.; Salcedo,I. H.
Studies from some semi-arid regions of the world have shown the beneficial effect of trees in silvopastoral systems, by promoting the formation of resource islands and increasing the sustainability of the system. No data are available in this respect for tree species of common occurrence in semi-arid Northeastern Brazil. In the present study, conducted in the summer of 1996, three tree species (Zyziphus joazeiro, Spondias tuberosa and Prosopis juliflora: ) found within Cenchrus ciliaris pastures were selected to evaluate differences on herbaceous understory and soil chemical characteristics between samples taken under the tree canopy and in open grass areas. Transects extending from the tree trunk to open grass areas were established, and soil (0-15 cm)...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Semi-arid region; Caatinga; Sustainability; Fertility islands.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06831999000400008

Nitrogen fertilization (15NH4NO3) of palisadegrass and residual effect on subsequent no-tillage corn
Provedor de dados: 90
Autores: Borghi,Emerson; Crusciol,Carlos Alexandre Costa; Trivelin,Paulo Cesar Ocheuze; Nascente,Adriano Stephan; Costa,Ciniro; Mateus,Gustavo Pavan.
Nitrogen is required in large amounts by plants and their dinamics in corn and perennial forages intercropped is little known. This study analyzed the efficiency of nitrogen fertilization (15NH4NO3) applied after corn grain harvest to palisadegrass (Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu) in intercrops sown at two times, as well as the N residual effect on the subsequent corn crop. The field experiment was performed in Botucatu, São Paulo State, in southeastern Brazil, on a structured Alfisol under no-tillage. The experiment was arranged in a randomized block design in a split plot scheme with four replications. The main plots consisted of two intercropping systems (corn and palisadegrass sown together and palisadegrass sown later, at corn top-dressing...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Zea mays; Brachiaria brizantha; Crop system; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832014000500011

Nutrient relations during an eucalyptus cycle at different population densities
Provedor de dados: 90
Autores: Leite,Fernando Palha; Silva,Ivo Ribeiro; Novais,Roberto Ferreira; Barros,Nairam Félix de; Neves,Júlio César Lima; Villani,Ecila Mercês de Albuquerque.
To synchronize nutrient availability with the requirements of eucalyptus during a cultivation cycle, the nutrient flow of this system must be well understood. Essential, for example, is information about nutrient dynamics in eucalyptus plantations throughout a cultivation cycle, as well as impacts on soil nutrient reserves caused by the accumulation and subsequent export of nutrients via biomass. It is also important to quantify the effect of some management practices, such as tree population density (PD) on these fluxes. Some nutrient relations in an experiment with Eucalyptus grandis, grown at different PDs in Santa Barbara, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, were evaluated for one cultivation cycle. At forest ages of 0.25, 2.5, 4.5, and 6.75 years,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Mineral nutrition; Tree spacing; Sustainability; Fertilization.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832011000300029

The effect of plantation silviculture on soil organic matter and particle-size fractions in Amazonia
Provedor de dados: 90
Autores: Beldini,Troy Patrick; McNabb,Kenneth L; Lockaby,B. Graeme; Sanchez,Felipe G; Navegantes-Câncio,Osvaldo; Oliveira,Raimundo Cosme de.
Eucalyptus grandis and other clonal plantations cover about 3.5 million ha in Brazil. The impacts of intensively-managed short-rotation forestry on soil aggregate structure and Carbon (C) dynamics are largely undocumented in tropical ecosystems. Long-term sustainability of these systems is probably in part linked to maintenance of soil organic matter and good soil structure and aggregation, especially in areas with low-fertility soils. This study investigated soil aggregate dynamics on a clay soil and a sandy soil, each with a Eucalyptus plantation and an adjacent primary forest. Silvicultural management did not reduce total C stocks, and did not change soil bulk density. Aggregates of the managed soils did not decrease in mass as hypothesized, which...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Jari; Soil structure; Subsoiling; Sustainability.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832009000600008

Use of fish-farming wastewater in lettuce cultivation
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Guimarães,Isaías P.; Oliveira,Francisco de A. de; Torres,Salvador B.; Pereira,Francisco E. C. B.; França,Francisco D. de; Oliveira,Mychelle K. T. de.
ABSTRACT Lettuce stands out as the main leafy vegetable consumed in Brazil, with divergence regarding adaptability to different environmental conditions, which include salinity. The objective of the work was to evaluate the response of lettuce cultivars to the use of saline wastewater from fish farming. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with four replicates, in a factorial 7 x 4, corresponding to seven cultivars (Regiane, Vera, Isabela, Elisa, Amelia, Lavinia and Angelina) and four salt concentrations (1.2, 2.2, 3.2 and 4.2 dS m-1). The evaluated characteristics were: number of leaves, leaf area, crown diameter and shoot fresh and dry matter. Diluted wastewater from fish farming can be used in the preparation of solution for...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Lactuca sativa; Water resources; Salinity; Sustainability.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662016000800728

Energy performance of a production system of eucalyptus
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Romanelli,Thiago L.; Milan,Marcos.
Maximizing yields is opposed to the goal of minimizing the use of inputs. In the context of system rationalization, the addition of non-economic parameters in the decision making and the magnitude of eucalyptus plantation in Sao Paulo State, Brazil led to this study. The objective was to establish the flows and to evaluate the performance of energy transformations on eucalyptus production. The evaluated system presented three alternatives of soil acidity management: lime, ash and sludge application. The applied indicators were energy return on investment, energy intensity and energy balance, which meant, respectively, the return over energy investment, the energy content of biomass and the energy obtained per area. For the basic scenario, lime, EROI was...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Environmental analysis; EROI; Energy balance.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662010000800015

Aggregation, carbon, and total soil nitrogen in crop-livestock-forest integration in the Eastern Amazon
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Silva,Jéssica C. N.; Silva,Arystides R.; Veloso,Carlos A. C.; Dantas,Edilândia F.; Sacramento,José A. A. S. do.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agricultural production systems can improve physical attributes of soil as well as increase carbon and nitrogen stocks in soils. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in the stability of soil aggregates and contents and stocks of carbon and nitrogen after the conversion of native forest to crop-livestock-forest integration systems in the region of Western Pará. Soil samples from five management systems (including a control) were collected at three depths in a randomized block design, with five replications. The stability of the aggregates, soil density, particle density, and total soil porosity, as well as total carbon and nitrogen and their respective stocks were evaluated. The native forest had the highest percentages...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Organic carbon; Soil physics; Sustainability; Brazilian Amazon.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662018001200837

Organic residues on rooting and yield of sugarcane in Typic Quartzipsamments soil
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Pina,José C.; Bono,José A. M.; Oliveira,Ademir K. M. de; Rufino,Rodrigo dos S.; Amorim,Diogo O.
The use of renewable residues as a source of nutrients, associated with chemical input, can provide better efficiency, greater amount of nutrients available to the plant and reduce its application. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of different organic residues associated with chemical fertilizer (NPK) on sugarcane rooting and yield. The experiment was conducted in a Typic Quartzipsamments soil, located in Campo Grande-MS, Brazil, from October 2010 to September 2013. The plots were 4 x 5 m (20 m2), set in a randomized block design with four replicates. The treatments consisted of poultry litter (10 t ha-1), filter cake (10 t ha-1), vermicompost (10 t ha-1) and vinasse (300 m3 ha-1), all associated with basic NPK fertilizer, and...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Saccharum officinarum; Sustainability; Renewable residues; Yield.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662015000700650

The use of Crambe abyssinica seeds as adsorbent in the removal of metals from waters
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Gonçalves Jr.,Affonso C.; Rubio,Fernanda; Meneghel,Ana P.; Coelho,Gustavo F.; Dragunski,Douglas C.; Strey,Leonardo.
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of crambe seeds (Crambe abyssinica Hochst) as adsorbent material in the removal of the toxic metals cadmium, lead and chromium from contaminated solutions. The byproduct was obtained from oil extraction of crambe seeds in a Soxhlet system. In kinetic tests, the adsorbent masses had varied in solutions containing the metals under pH 5.0 and 7.0. Metal concentrations were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). According to optimal conditions found, the adsorption assays were performed for obtaining the isotherms of each metal, which were linearized in agreement with the mathematical models of Langmuir and Freundlich. According to the obtained results, the adsorbent was effective in removing the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Biosorption; Remediation of waters; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662013000300009

Energy analysis of broiler chicken production system with darkhouse installation
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Mattioli,Matheus C.; Campos,Alessandro T.; Yanagi Junior,Tadayuki; Marin,Diego B.; Eugênio,Tony M. C.; Costa Junior,José E. V.
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate the sustainability of a broiler chicken production system, with confinement in Darkhouse sheds, by energetic analysis. Energy flows of a complete production cycle, 56 days, were considered, of which the energy inputs and outputs were computed in direct and indirect forms, by estimating the energy coming from the quantity of feed, water, machinery and equipment, human labor, sheds, silos, among other components of the productive system, multiplied by their respective energetic coefficients. The total energy demand of a system in a production cycle for the production of 1 kg of live chicken and its energy efficiency coefficient were determined. The studied system had energy conversion coefficient of 95%,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Input-output analysis; Livestock buildings and environment; Aviculture; Broiler chicken facilities.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662018000900648

Productive and chemical characteristics of Marandu grass in response to poultry manure and soil chiseling
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Eguchi,Edson S.; Cecato,Ulysses; Muniz,Antonio S.; Oliveira,Carlos A. L. de; Murano,Raphael A. C.; Pierangeli,Maria A. P.
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate the productive and chemical characteristics of Marandu grass fertilized with poultry manure with or without the use of soil chiseling, during a period of 210 days. The experiment was conducted in a Dark-Red Latosol (Haplustox) of sandy texture, in a randomized block design with 4 replicates, in a 6 x 2 factorial scheme (0, 1.037, 2.074, 4.148, 6.222 t ha-1 of poultry manure and an additional treatment with chemical fertilizer based on 2.074 t ha-1, with and without soil chiseling). Grass-cutting management was performed between 95% of light interception by the canopy and the residual height of 0.15 m. The application of poultry manure resulted in an increase of forage production with higher number of...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Fertilization; Brachiaria; Nutrient; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662015000600527

Growth of eucalyptus rooted cuttings in toxic organic waste compost of textile industry
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Souza,Priscila F. de; Grazziotti,Danielle C. F. S.; Grazziotti,Paulo H.; Fernandes,Luiz A.; Silva,Enilson de B.; Gandini,Andrezza M. M.
ABSTRACTBiodegradation techniques may help contaminated organic wastes to become useful for plant production. The current study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of composting in the biodegradation of toxic residues from the textile industry and its use as substrate in saplings production. Cotton cloths contaminated with oil and grease, used in loom maintenance, were composted in a mixture with cattle manure. The composted material replaced coconut fiber in the substrate for the production of eucalyptus rooted cuttings: mixture of vermiculite, carbonized rice husk and coconut fiber in the ratio of 2:1:1 (v/v) and using it as control. Thus, the amount of rice husks remained unchanged and the amount of vermiculite and compost varied. The compost proportion in...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Composting; Biodegradation; Recycling; Sustainability; Substrates.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662015000900829

Soil cover management: initial development of pear trees hosui cultivar and its effects on soil and weeds
Provedor de dados: 94
Autores: Delonzek,Edina Costa; Botelho,Renato Vasconcelos; Muller,Marcelo Marques Lopes; Maciel,Cleber Daniel de Goes; Maia,Aline José.
Abstract  Soil management is a practice that influences the development of fruit trees. In this sense, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of different soil cover/mulching types on weed control and on the early development of pear trees Hosui cultvar. The experiment was conducted in two consecutive cycles: 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. Treatments consisted of the following soil covers in pear tree planting rows: natural cover, ryegrass straw intercropped with millet, pine sawdust, shading cover (70%), rice husk, Curauá fiber and weeding. Soil infestation by weeds was evaluated in the spring-summer period for two years, as well as the vegetative pear tree development (plant height and diameter and SPAD chlorophyll index). Managements using...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Pyrus spp.; Spontaneous plants; Agroecology; Soil fertility; Sustainability.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-29452019000200702

Accumulation and exportation of nutrients by yellow Passion fruit cv. IAC 275
Provedor de dados: 94
Autores: Mattar,Gabriel Stefanini; Moraes,Carolina Cinto de; Meletti,Laura Maria Molina; Purquerio,Luis Felipe Villani.
Abstract  The mineral nutrition is essential to increase yield and fruit quality of passion fruit. There is no information of nutrient accumulation throughout the production cycle. Thus, in order to assist in the correct nutrients supply and update the recommendations, studies involving cultivars and cultivation techniques are necessary. The aim of this study was to evaluate the plant growth, the nutrient accumulation and the exportation in plants of yellow passion fruit cv. IAC 275. The experimental design was a randomized block, with three replications, where the treatments were evaluation times. Stem length, dry mass matter and nutrient accumulation in aerial part (leaves and stems), fruits and roots were evaluated. The maximum daily accumulation rate...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Passiflora edulis; Advanced seedling; Annual cultivation; Mineral nutrition; Phenology; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-29452018000300701

Conceptual model to identify factors with influence in Brazilian beef consumption
Provedor de dados: 96
Autores: Brandão,Fernanda Scharnberg; Barcellos,Júlio Otávio Jardim; Waquil,Paulo Dabdab; Oliveira,Tamara Esteves de; Gianezini,Miguelangelo; Dias,Eduardo Antunes.
The complexity of the consumers' behavior has taken the food industry to a new level of dynamism. Therefore, understanding the factors that influence this behavior is decisive for the differentiation of products to niche markets and even to adjust the supply according to consumers' expectancy. This article proposes a conceptual model to identify the factors influencing beef consumption in Brazil. The methodological approach was characterized by a systematic review through a synthesis of research related directly to this topic. Therefore, 76 papers published during the 2000-2014 period, including official documents (statistics), full research papers, abstracts, proceedings, and reports, were selected. Four main factors were related to influences in consumer...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Beef cattle; Behavior; Price; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982015000600213

Welfare of cattle kept in intensive silvopastoral systems: A case report
Provedor de dados: 96
Autores: Tarazona Morales,Ariel Marcel; Ceballos,Maria Camila; Correa Londoño,Guillermo; Cuartas Cardona,César Augusto; Naranjo Ramírez,Juan Fernando; Paranhos da Costa,Mateus José Rodrigues.
ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of three different intensive silvopastoral systems (ISPS) on cattle animal welfare (AW) in Colombia. The three ISPS differed in area, plant composition, and grazing periods as follows: ISPS1 - low plant diversity in paddocks of 1200 m2, with grazing period of 24 h; ISPS2 - middle plant diversity in paddocks of 600 m2, with grazing period of 12 h; and ISPS3 - high plant diversity in paddocks of 600 m2, with grazing period of 24 h. Animal welfare was assessed using a wide range of criteria, which were integrated using L-spline functions and Choquet integrals to generate overall values. It was found that AW was good in all ISPS; the highest scoring criteria was for food and water, with 99, 97,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Animal emotion; Animal welfare; Appropriate behavior; Livestock; Sustainability.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982017000600478

Polyculture of Nile tilapia and shrimp at different stocking densities
Provedor de dados: 96
Autores: Bessa Junior,Ambrosio Paula; Azevedo,Celicina Maria da Silveira Borges; Pontes,Frederico Silva Thé; Henry-Silva,Gustavo Gonzaga.
This study aimed to evaluate the productivity, growth performance and economic feasibility of polyculture of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus and shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei at different stocking densities. Feed was provided based on fish requirements. The experiment was conducted at the Aquaculture facility of the Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido - UFERSA, in a completely randomized design with five treatments and four replicates each. Treatments consisted of a tilapia monoculture with 2 tilapias.m-2; and polyculture with 2 tilapias.m-2 and L. vannamei at four different densities (3, 6, 9 and 12 shrimps.m-2). The initial individual biomass for fish and shrimp were 1.23±0.12 g and 0.133±0.009 g, respectively. Water quality parameters,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Economic return; Growth performance; Sustainability.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000700002

Components of sustainable animal production and the use of silvopastoral systems
Provedor de dados: 96
Autores: Broom,Donald Maurice.
ABSTRACT There is an urgent need for sustainable animal production systems. A system or procedure is sustainable if it is acceptable now and if its expected future effects are acceptable, in particular in relation to resource availability, consequences of functioning, and morality of action. What might make any animal usage system unsustainable? The system might involve depletion of resources such that a resource becomes unavailable or a product of the system might accumulate to a degree that prevents the functioning of the system. However, any effect which the general public find unacceptable makes a system unsustainable. A production system might be unsustainable because of inefficient usage of world food resources; adverse effects on human health; poor...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Animal welfare; Disease control; Livestock; Silvopastoral; Sustainability.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982017000800683

The influence of land use systems on soil and surface litter fauna in the western region of Santa Catarina
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Bartz,Marie Luise Carolina; Brown,George Gardner; Orso,Renato; Mafra,Álvaro Luiz; Baretta,Dilmar.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the abundance of soil and surface litter fauna in the western region of Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil, in the following land use systems (LUS): no-tillage crops (NT), integrated crop-livestock (ICL), pasture (PA), Eucalyptus plantation (EP) and native forest fragments (NF). Sampling was done in three counties in the western region of Santa Catarina: Xanxerê, Chapecó and São Miguel do Oeste, in two seasons (winter and summer). The evaluation of soil/litter fauna in each LUS was performed by installing nine "pitfall traps" per sampling grid (3 x 3). The counties are true replicas. The soil for the chemical attributes was collected at the same sampling points for soil fauna. Altogether, 17 taxa were identified in...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Soil management systems; Soil biology; Soil biodiversity; Sustainability; Pitfall traps.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902014000500003

Culture of Nile tilapia in a biofloc system with different sources of carbon
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Lima,Eduardo Cesar Rodrigues de; Souza,Rafael Liano de; Girao,Pamela Jenny Montes; Braga,Ítalo Felipe Mascena; Correia,Eudes de Souza.
ABSTRACT The aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of using different sources of organic carbon on water quality, growth performance and the acceptability of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fillets grown in a biofloc system. The experiment was carried out over 145 days at the Aquaculture Station of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Fish of 72.6 ± 6.83 g were stored (35 fish m-3) in 19 circular tanks (800 L) in a completely randomised experimental design with three treatments, including as a source of carbon, sugar (SUG), liquid molasses (MOL) and molasses powder (MOP), each with five replications, and one control treatment (CTL) without bioflocs, with four replications. Dissolved oxygen concentrations were significantly higher...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Tilapia culture; Sustainability; Chitralada; Molasses; Fillets.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902018000300458

Binary programming for the simulation of crop rotation and animal transit in an integrated crop-livestock system
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Oliveira,Deumara Galdino de; Delgado,Angel Ramon Sanchez; Ventura,Sergio Drumond; Cruz,Marcelo Dib; Rodrigues,Paulo Cesar Parga.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to develop and implement a linear-programming model (LP) that provides as its result a schedule with the best selection of crops in each plot per period, and with the greatest weight gain for each animal. The linear-programming model was developed from empirical work carried out by Alvarenga and Gontijo Neto (2008) in an area of 24 hectares of Embrapa Milho e Sorgo, in Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais (MG). For the computational implementation of the model, it was necessary to have data on agricultural suitability and animal weight gain for each period and for each plot. In order to test the developed mathematical model, values were randomly generated for agricultural suitability and for animal weight gain using the MATLAB...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Planning; Sustainability; Binary programming in crop and livestock farming.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902019000100123

Nutrient use efficiency in interspecific hybrids of eucalypt
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Rosim,Camila Capodifoglio; Hsing,Tseng Yao; Paula,Rinaldo Cesar de.
ABSTRACT The aim of this work was to evaluate nutrient use efficiency in interspecific hybrids of eucalypt, as an aid in the development of forest breeding programs for areas with limited nutrients. To do this, five clones were evaluated at 2.25 years of age from hybrids resulting from crosses of Eucalyptus grandis x E. urophylla (C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5). The experimental design was of randomised blocks, with single-tree plots and 35 replications. For the study, four trees of average performance were cut down (replications) from each treatment (clone); the biomass, and content and efficiency of use of N, P, K, Ca and Mg were determined in the wood, bark, leaves and branches. The data were submitted to analysis of variance and the F-test, and the means...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Nutritional efficiency; Sustainability; Biomass allocation; Energy forests; Wood.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902016000300540

Mathematical drying kinetics modeling of jackfruit seeds (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.)
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Leite,Daniela Dantas de Farias; Queiroz,Alexandre José de Melo; Figueirêdo,Rossana Maria Feitosa de; Lima,Leiliane Silva Lopes.
ABSTRACT Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) is a fruit with pulp rich in carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron and B-complex vitamins. A large amount of waste is generated in the pulp processing, in which the seeds are included. Jackfruit seeds are often consumed after cooking, and may also undergo roasting, milling and incorporation into bakery products. The remaining jackfruit seeds can be germinated as a means to increase its utilization, constituting a process that confers positive biochemical modifications to the nutritional quality. Thus, the objective of this work was to dry the germinated seeds of the jackfruit tree in a convective drier at 55, 65 and 75 °C with drying air velocities of 1.0 and 1.3 m s-1, and adjusting different...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural waste; Malting; Sustainability; Environment.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902019000300361

Hormesis method for increasing oat straw with a view to viability of direct-seeding systems1
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Tavares,Leandro Augusto Felix; Sousa,Saulo Fernando Gomes; Correia,Tiago Pereira da Silva; Silva,Paulo Roberto Arbex; Velini,Edivaldo Domingues.
In conservation agriculture, mainly under direct seeding, maintaining the vegetation ground cover is essential, since this serves as a reservoir of nutrients which are slowly released to plants by microorganisms. Some authors have sought to study increases in the amount of straw in the soil, in addition to slowing down the process of decomposition, with hormesis being one of the techniques used. This technique states that all chemical substances are both poisonous and nonpoisonous, with only the dosage determining whether they are lethal or not. This study aimed to evaluate the dry weight and agronomic characteristics of a crop of black oat subjected to hormesis. The experimental design was of randomised blocks, with 12 treatments and 4 replications,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Vegetation cover; Direct-seeding systems.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902015000100048

Soil fauna and its relation with environmental variables in soil management systems
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Baretta,Dilmar; Bartz,Marie Luise Carolina; Fachini,Ivandro; Anselmi,Rafael; Zortéa,Talyta; Baretta,Carolina Riviera Duarte Maluche.
The present study aims to generate knowledge about the soil fauna, its relation to other explanatory environmental variables, and, besides it, to select edaphic indicators that more contribute to separate the land use systems (LUS). Five different LUS were chosen: conventional tillage with crop rotation (CTCR); no-tillage with crop rotation (NTCR); conventional tillage with crop succession (CTCS); no-tillage with crop succession (NTCS) and minimum tillage with crop succession (MTCS). The samples were made in the counties Chapecó, Xanxerê and Ouro Verde located in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and were considered the true replicates of the LUS. In each site, nine points were sampled in a sampling grid of 3 x 3. At the same points, soil was sampled...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Soil quality indicators; No-tillage; Conventional tillage.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902014000500002

Costs, viability and risks of organic tomato production in a protected environment
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Machado Neto,Andrezza da Silva; Ponciano,Niraldo José; Souza,Paulo Marcelo de; Gravina,Geraldo de Amaral; Daher,Rogério Figueiredo.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to evaluate the agro-economic performance of two table-tomato cultivars (Santa Clara and Siluet), under organic cultivation and in a protected environment. Through the analysis of production costs, economic viability and project risk, it was sought to generate a proposal for agricultural profitability having less socio-environmental impact on family farming. To achieve that, the Operating and Total Production Costs, Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) were calculated. A sensitivity analysis and economic risk analysis were then carried out. Both cultivars under consideration presented satisfactory economic indicators for the period being analysed. Judging by the criterion of Net Present Value,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Solanum lycopersicum; Management; Economy; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902018000400584

Research on Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Brazil
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Moraes,Anibal de; Carvalho,Paulo César de Faccio; Lustosa,Sebastião Brasil Campos; Lang,Claudete Reisdorfer; Deiss,Leonardo.
Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) are designed to exploit synergisms and emergent properties resulting from interactions between different soil-plant-animal-atmosphere compartments that integrate themselves at different spatial-temporal scales. In this review, a panorama of the evolution of studies based on ICLS is presented. Specific keywords were used as search terms to construct a database of 450 articles from 93 national and international journals published up to and including 2013. These articles were classified according to the region of origin within Brazil (subtropical or tropical) and categorized regarding the studied components: soil, plant, animal and 'others'. Within these components, groups of variables that could characterize the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Conservation agriculture; Sustainability; Scientific production; Agricultural technology; Systematic approach.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902014000500018

Emergy efficiency analysis of sugarcane as a raw material for ethanol production
Provedor de dados: 124
Autores: Vitória,Edney Leandro da; Rodrigues,Joice Paraguassú.
ABSTRACT In recent years, the expansion of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil and its growing importance in the Brazilian economy have been driven by a sharp increase in fuel alcohol production. This increase in fuel alcohol production was accompanied by increasing interest regarding the impacts of fuel crops in Brazil. In this study, regions of sugarcane expansion into deforested areas in the Atlantic Forest were studied by applying the emergy theory and indices. Environmental and economic inputs and the sustainability of the sugarcane production system were evaluated with the emergy method. The transformity (TR) was equal to 1.78E+11 seJ kg-1, the yield rate (EYR) was equal to 1.30, the investment rate was equal to 3.29, the environmental load rate was...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Environment; Ethanol production.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902016000400616

EVALUATION OF IRRIGATION LEVELS IN THE CASTOR BEAN (Ricinus communis L.) IN THE BRAZILIAN SEMIARID REGION
Provedor de dados: 107
Autores: Breno Rosa Neves; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano. IF Baiano Campus Guanambi; Marcelo Rocha Santos; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano. IF Baiano Campus Guanambi; Sérgio Luiz Rodrigues Donato; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano. IF Baiano Campus Guanambi.
There has been an increase in the search for forms of renewable energy with lo environmental impacts, of which biodiesel is highlighted. The castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) is a major raw material for the derivation of these biomass-based fuels. Due to the lack of information in literature regarding irrigation in castor bean crops in the semiarid region of Bahia, the aim of this study was to evaluate different irrigation levels on growth and yield of castor beans in the semiarid region of Bahia. The study was conducted in an experimental area of the agricultural sector of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Campus, Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil. The experiment was setup in a completely randomized design with 4x5 factorial scheme,...
Tipo: Artigo Avaliado por Pares
Palavras-chave: Recursos Hídricos e Ambientais biodiesel; Sustainability; Water resources.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.seer.ufv.br/seer/index.php/reveng/article/view/408

Energy balance methodology and modeling of supplementary forage production for cattle in Brazil
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Romanelli,Thiago Libório; Milan,Marcos.
Cattle is the main protein source in Brazil and cattle production depends on preserving forage in order to decrease the influence of dry periods on grass production. To minimize such problems, some new techniques have been created to increase the yield which also leads to energy demand increase. Energy balance is a vital tool to evaluate the efficiency of energy consumption in production systems. There is no standard methodology established for this determination. It is also difficult to analyze different management options because of the complexity of the production systems and the interactions among variables. Therefore the purpose of this study is to develop a methodology that supports the development of a model, using a spreadsheet, and to use it to...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Environmental management; Production systems; Sustainability; Silage; Haylage.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162005000100001

Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Cardoso,Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira; Vasconcellos,Rafael Leandro Figueiredo; Bini,Daniel; Miyauchi,Marina Yumi Horta; Santos,Cristiane Alcantara dos; Alves,Paulo Roger Lopes; Paula,Alessandra Monteiro de; Nakatani,André Shigueyoshi; Pereira,Jamil de Moraes; Nogueira,Marco Antonio.
Soil Health refers to the ecological equilibrium and the functionality of a soil and its capacity to maintain a well balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity above and below surface, and productivity. To understand and use soil health as a tool for sustainability, physical, chemical, and biological properties must be employed to verify which respond to the soil use and management within a desired timescale. Attributes with a rapid response to natural or anthropogenic actions are considered good indicators of soil health. Among the physical indicators, soil texture, aggregation, moisture, porosity, and bulk density have been used, while among chemical indicators total C and N, mineral nutrients, organic matter, cation exchange capacity, among others are...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Land-use; Microbial community; Soil fauna; Soil quality; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162013000400009

Early defoliation effects on water status, fruit yield and must quality of ‘Nerello mascalese’ grapes
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Ferlito,Filippo; Allegra,Maria; Torrisi,Biagio; Pappalardo,Helena; Gentile,Alessandra; Malfa,Stefano La; Continella,Alberto; Stagno,Fiorella; Nicolosi,Elisabetta.
ABSTRACT: The effect of basal zone defoliation on vines influences yield and ripening depending on the phenological stage and its intensity. Early basal defoliation (EBD) was carried out at flowering on the autochthonous Vitis vinifera (L.) cultivar ‘Nerello mascalese’ grown on the eastern slopes of Mount Etna, Sicily. The effects were evaluated over a two-year period. In the first year, the canopy retained 67 % of its original leaf area after EBD and in the second year, 58 %. Compared with control vines, mid-day leaf water potentials in the EBD vines enjoyed higher water status throughout the growing seasons in both years. EBD had no significant negative effects on yield but did have significant positive effects on the levels of total polyphenols, total...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Vitis vinifera (L.); Photosynthesis; Canopy; Sustainability; Berry quality.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162020000600602

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Coelho,Fábio Cunha; Coelho,Enilce Maria; Egerer,Monika.
ABSTRACT: This paper aims to examine the issue raised by the consumption of locally produced food in all its various aspects, and in particular, addresses how this practice contributes to local and global sustainability. It analyzes the different definitions of local food, the strategies used, the implications of the distance traveled in the transportation of food to the consumer's table – food miles, the relationships between local food consumption and sustainability, farming practices that reduce carbon emissions, contribution of urban agriculture to local food, local trading of food produced by rural farmers, as well as a number of relationships between the consumption of local food and human nutrition and health, local food protection and the ability...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Food consumption; Food miles; Greenhouse gases; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162018000100084

Nitrogen fertilizer leaching in an Oxisol cultivated with sugarcane
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Ghiberto,Pablo Javier; Libardi,Paulo Leonel; Brito,Alexsandro dos Santos; Trivelin,Paulo Cezar Ocheuze.
Nitrogen (N) leaching below the crop-rooting zone represents not only a valuable loss of nutrients for the plant, but also a potential pollution source of groundwater. The objective of this work was to quantify leaching losses of native N and that derived from fertilizer in an Oxisol that was cultivated with sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) during the crop plant cycle. The sugarcane was planted and fertilized with urea in the planting furrow, with 120 kg ha-1 of N. In order to determine the fate of the fertilizer - N, four microplots with 15N enriched fertilizer were installed. Input and output of N at the depth of 0.9 m were quantified from the flux density of water and the N concentration in soil solution. During the evaluation period the rainfall was...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Saccharum spp; Sustainability; Solute transport; Environmental quality; Pollution.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162011000100013

Carcass characteristics and fatty acid profile of Santa Inês lamb fed banana leftovers
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Menezes,Adriana Morato de; Tanure,Candice Bergmann Garcia e Silva; Peripolli,Vanessa; Esteves,Geisa Isilda Ferreira; Kindlein,Liris; Louvandini,Helder; Souza,Jurandir Rodrigues de; McManus,Concepta.
ABSTRACT: The use of new feed resources, particularly local agroindustrial byproducts, such as banana, may be an option for replacing those traditionally used for sheep feed to reduce production costs. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the dietary effects of replacing corn bran with banana leftovers on performance, carcass, non-carcass components, meat traits, and fatty acid profile of Santa Inês lambs. Twenty-four Santa Inês female lambs with an average weight of 23.73 kg were fed diets containing 60 % coast cross hay and 40 % concentrate (30 % corn bran and 10 % soybean meal). Treatments consisted of corn bran replaced by banana leftovers at rates of 0, 25, 50, and 75 % on a dry matter basis. The experiment lasted 120 days. Animals were...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Byproducts; Meat quality; Non-carcass components; Sustainability.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162020000100400

Production and nutritive value of pastures in integrated livestock production systems: shading and management effects
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Pezzopane,José Ricardo Macedo; Bernardi,Alberto Carlos de Campos; Azenha,Mariana Vieira; Oliveira,Patricia Perondi Anchão; Bosi,Cristiam; Pedroso,André de Faria; Esteves,Sérgio Novita.
ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the production characteristics of pastures in integrated livestock production systems. For that, an experiment was carried out in São Carlos, SP, Brazil, from 2013 to 2015. Forage development, production and nutritive value were evaluated in five beef cattle production systems: extensive continuous stocking (Urochloa decumbens) = EXT; intensive = INT; crop-livestock = iCL; livestock-forest = iLF and crop-livestock-forest = iCLF. Rotational stocking pastures in INT, iCL, iLF and iCLF systems were established with Urochloa brizantha cv. BRS Piatã. In iCL and iCLF, pastures were renovated by resowing the grass simultaneously with corn. In iLF and iCLF, eucalyptus (Eucalyptus urograndis clone GG100) was planted in Apr 2011...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Urochloa brizantha; Eucalyptus urograndis; Solar radiation; Competition; Sustainability.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162020000200402

Dissolved organic carbon and bioavailability of N and P as indicators of soil quality
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Silveira,Maria Lucia Azevedo.
Soil quality has become an important issue in soil science. Considerable attempts have been made to define soil quality, but a general concept has not yet been accepted by the scientific community. The selection of quantitative indices for soil quality is extremely difficult, and a considerable number of chemical, physical, and biochemical properties have been suggested as potential indicators of soil quality. Because soil organic matter (SOM) can be associated with different soil chemical, physical and biological processes, it has been widely considered as one of the best soil quality indicator. Land use can significantly influence dynamics of organic carbon and N, P, and S cycle. However, changes in total soil organic carbon (SOC) contents in response to...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem management; Sustainability; Indicators of soil quality.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162005000500017

Swine deep bedding ashes as a mineral additive for cement based mortar
Provedor de dados: 63
Autores: Di Campos,Melissa Selaysim; Barbosa,Normando Perazzo; Savastano Jr.,Holmer.
The sustainability of intensive swine production demands alternative destinations for the generated residues. Ashes from swine rice husk-based deep bedding were tested as a mineral addition for cement mortars. The ashes were obtained at 400 to 600ºC, ground and sieved through a 325 mesh sieve (# 0.045 mm). The characterization of the ashes included the determination of the index of pozzolanic activity with lime. The ashes were also tested as partial substitutes of Portland cement. The mortars were prepared using a cement:sand proportion of 1:1.5, and with water/cement ratio of 0.4. Three percentages of mass substitution of the cement were tested: 10, 20 and 30%. Mortar performances were assessed at 7 and 28 days determining their compressive strength. The...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Rice husk; Pozzolanicity; Vitreous silica; Sustainability.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162008000200001

ความยั่งยืนของการเลี้ยงโคนมโดยชุมชนเป็นฐาน: กรณีศึกษาบ้านห้วยเตย ตำบลท่าพระ อำเภอเมือง จังหวัดขอนแก่น
Provedor de dados: 106
Autores: Theerachai Haitook; Prachyawit Husro; Vicha Kalabutr.
The study on sustainability of community-based dairy cattle raising, a case study in Ban Huay Toei, Tambon Ta Pra, Amphoe Muang, Khon Kaen Province aims to assess the development approach to this point and to assess on its affected factors. The data and information were gathered via participatory process for the overview and historical background. For the data of production performance, management and attitudes were collected by using a semi-structure interview tool. All Fourteen dairy cattle farmers in the village were interviewed. The study found that the resilience of the system resulted from 1) working hard, learning experience and positive attitudes on the occupation, 2) adaptation capacity in husbandry techniques and their livelihood, 3) well...
Tipo: PhysicalObject
Palavras-chave: Farmers; Dairy cattle; Dairy cattle production; Community context; Community-base; Sustainability; Participation; Ban Huay Toei; Khon Kaen province; เกษตรกร; โคนม; การผลิตโคนม; สมรรถนะการผลิต; บริบทชุมชน; ทัศนคติ; การปรับตัว; ความยั่งยืน; การมีส่วนร่วม; บ้านห้วยเตย; จ.ขอนแก่น.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://anchan.lib.ku.ac.th/agnet/handle/001/5790

Hydrological calibration and validation of the MGB-IPH model for water resource management in the upper Teles Pires River basin in the Amazon-Cerrado ecotone in Brazil
Provedor de dados: 36
Autores: OLIVEIRA,Riene Filgueiras de; ZOLIN,Cornélio Alberto; VICTORIA,Daniel de Castro; LOPES,Tarcio Rocha; VENDRUSCULO,Laurimar Gonçalves; PAULINO,Janaina.
ABSTRACT The upper Teles Pires River basin is located in the Brazilian agriculture frontier in the north of Mato Grosso state and has experienced significant changes in land use and cover, which can cause major changes in its hydrological dynamics. Climatic and hydrologic data are scarce in the region, which poses uncertainties in the decision-making process aiming at the sustainable management of water resources in this strategic area. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the Large-Scale Distributed Hydrological Model (MGB-IPH) to assess water availability of the upper Teles Pires basin and support water resource management in the Amazon-Cerrado ecotone. The MGB-IPH model was calibrated and validated using data from three streamflow...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Water resource management; Hydrologic simulation; Sustainability; Brazilian agriculture frontier.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672019000100054

Açaí seed bran in the feed of slow-growth broilers
Provedor de dados: 36
Autores: ARRUDA,Janaína de Cássia Braga; FONSECA,Lívia Anália Bentes da; PINTO,Leonardo César Portal; PINHEIRO,Higor César de Oliveira; MONTEIRO,Brenda Thamara Oliveira; MANNO,Maria Cristina; LIMA,Kedson Raul de Souza; LIMA,Ana Rita de.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to analyze the potential use of açaí seeds as an alternative ingredient in the feed of slow-growth broilers until 28 days of age. We carried out a bromatological analysis of fractions of the açaí fruit. The açaí seed without mesocarp was the best choice for formulation of the açaí seed bran (ASB), which was evaluated in terms of bird performance and economic viability of the supplemented feed. A total of 416 male chicks of the French Red-Naked Neck lineage were used in a completely randomized design with four treatments (0, 2, 6 and 10% inclusion of ASBin the feed) with eight replicates each. The results indicated that ASB can be included in proportions of up to 10% in the diet of slow growth broilers at early development...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Alternative feed; Chicken; Agroindustrial residue; Sustainability; Euterpe oleraceae.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672018000400298

Sustainable production of bioactive alkaloids in Psychotria L. of southern Brazil: propagation and elicitation strategies
Provedor de dados: 39
Autores: Magedans,Yve Verônica da Silva; Rodrigues-Corrêa,Kelly Cristine da Silva; Costa,Cibele Tesser da; Matsuura,Hélio Nitta; Fett-Neto,Arthur Germano.
ABSTRACT Psychotria is the largest genus in Rubiaceae. South American species of the genus are promising sources of natural products, mostly due to bioactive monoterpene indole alkaloids they accumulate. These alkaloids can have analgesic, antimutagenic, and antioxidant activities in different experimental models, among other pharmacological properties of interest. Propagation of genotypes with relevant pharmaceutical interest is important for obtaining natural products in a sustainable and standardized fashion. Besides the clonal propagation of elite individuals, the alkaloid content of Psychotria spp. can also be increased by applying moderate stressors or stress-signaling molecules. This review explores advances in research on methods for plant...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Abiotic stress; Alkaloids; Elicitation; Monoterpenes; Plant propagation; Psychotria; Southern Brazil; Sustainability.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062019000400607

Reutilization of chemical waste in methodologies for analyses of neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber - doi: 10.4025/actascianimsci.v35i3.18591
Provedor de dados: 2
Autores: Lourenço, Maria do Socorro Nahuz; Universidade Estadual do Maranhão; Berchielli, Telma Teresinha; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho"; Sader, Ana Paula de Oliveira; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho"; Malheiros, Euclides Braga; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho"; Messana, Juliana Duarte; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho"; Canesin, Roberta Carrilho; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho".
The disposal of chemical waste and the precision of analyses of the neutral (NDF) and acid (ADF) detergent fiber contents were evaluated utilizing conventional (Van Soest) and alternative methods of analyses. The recovery of acetone promoted both economic and environmental gains, with a recovery rate of 84.12%. The precision of the analyses was not observed in most of the determinations with reutilization of chemical waste in all the analytical methods tested, in spite of promoting decrease in cost, time invested in the preparation of solutions and the disposal of chemical waste.   
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: 5.04.03.00-1 animal nutrition; Chemical analysis; Sustainability.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/article/view/18591

Uso e Conservação de florestas de galeria do bioma Pampa Brasileiro
Provedor de dados: 3
Autores: Costella, Eduardo; Universidade Federal do Pampa; Garcia, Bruno Alves; Universidade Federal do Pampa; Costa, Leonardo Severo da; Universidade Federal do Pampa; Corneleo, Nathana da Silva; Universidade Federal do Pampa; Schünemann, Adriano Luis; Universidade Federal do Pampa; Stefenon, Valdir Marcos; Universidade Federal do Pampa.
Como efeito do crescimentop demográfico, muitas cidades no Sul do Brasil experimentaram, na última década, um processo de degradação de áreas de preservação ambiental. O planejamento de programas de recuperação de florestas depende de conhecimento estruturado sobre a utilização de espécies vegetais pelas comunidades locais. Entrevistas semi-estruturadas e inventários fitossociológicos foram empregados para acessar o efeito do uso antropogênico de espécies arbóreas de matas de galeria em áreas do Pampa brasileiro. Oitenta e quatro informantes foram entrevistados e listaram um total de 43 espécies, pertencentes a 23 famílias botânicas. Quatro categorias de uso foram identificadas para as espécies citadas: lenha, medicamento, alimento e madeira. As três...
Tipo: Entrevista semi-estruturada; inventário florestal
Palavras-chave: Ethnobotany; Forest conservation; Traditional knowledge Botany Biologia ethnobotany; Sustainability; Traditional knowledge Botânica.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/13458

Energy Demand in Agricultural Biomass Production in Parana state, Brazil
Provedor de dados: 111
Autores: Andrea, M. C. S.; Tieppo, R. C.; Gimenez, L. M.; Povh, F. P.; Katsman, T. J.; Romanelli, T. L.
Energy flow analysis is an interesting approach to assess and to improve sustainability of agricultural production systems, represented by the economy of energy resources and other inputs translated into energy terms. This type of analysis can complement the economic view contributing to more efficient production systems. Moreover, assessing crops with traditional food use may play an important role in energy provision. Energy efficiency tools were applied in order to determine the energy demand as well as the efficiency of the biomass production of several forage crops in mechanized systems conducted at Paraná state, Brazil. Material flow, input and output energy, energy balance, energy return over investment and embodied energy were used and identified...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Bioenergy; Energy indicators; Sustainability; Embodied energy.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2916

Energy analysis of Jatropha curcas under irrigation and rainfed at the Southeast Brazilian humid subtropical
Provedor de dados: 111
Autores: Santos, Otávio Neto Almeida; Folegatti, Marcos Vinícius; Lena, Bruno Patias; Diotto, Adriano Valentim; Francisco, João Paulo; Romanelli, Thiago Libório.
Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.) is an oil seed species, adaptive to different climate and soil conditions. It is known due to its high-oil-content seed, being an option for biodiesel production and presenting competitive yields under irrigated condition. This study was developed in an experimental area located in a humid subtropical region of Brazil and the objective was to evaluate Jatropha’s energy balance under irrigation and rainfed condition during the first four years of its cycle. First, the material flows were determined, which supported the calculation of, energy input and output flows were obtained. These were used to determine the energy indices: energy balance (EB), and energy return on investment (EROI) for both conditions. Fertilizers had the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Biofuel; Energy efficiency; Sustainability; Energy flow.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/4597

Sustainability evaluation of agricultural greenhouse structures in southern of Algeria using AHP, case of study: Biskra province
Provedor de dados: 111
Autores: Bencheikh, Abdelaali; Nourani, Ahmed; Chabaca, Mohamed Nacer.
The protected cultivation of vegetables has considerably developed in southern ofAlgeria.  However, the sustainability of this system has not been evaluated.  The aim of this study is to find a greenhouse structure (Tunnel or Canarian) that promotes the agriculture sustainability in Biskra province using analytic hierarchy process (AHP).  In that event, a survey was conducted in this region where nine criteria were selected according to the local conditions.  The results obtained revealed that the farmer and the agricultural specialists shared the same vision regarding the weight of economic indicators with 74% and 66%, respectively.  The AHP analysis provided that the Canarian greenhouse (CG) presented the ideal structure.  This work might also help the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural greenhouse; Sustainability; AHP; Canarian greenhouse; Tunnel greenhouse.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/4114

Energy, water and material footprints of agricultural machinery industry
Provedor de dados: 111
Autores: Mantoam, Edemilson J; Mekonnen, Mesfin M; Romanelli, Thiago Libório.
The intensification of agricultural production systems demand power, supplied by agricultural machinery, besides more agricultural inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides and seeds. Agricultural mechanization provided increase in the global production of food, fiber and bioenergy; and it brought economic benefits to producers, but causing larger energy consumption. Energy embodiment in agricultural machinery has been approached, but data usually are from car industry. This study aimed to determine the energy demand in a plant that assembles five types of agricultural machinery from a multinational manufacturer located in Piracicaba municipality in Sao Paulo state, Brazil. That plant assembles two types of sugarcane harvester, coffee harvesters, sprayers and...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural engineering mechanization; Industrial process; Life cycle assessment; Energy balance; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/4831

Use of a mathematical model to estimate the impact of shrimp pen culture at Patos Lagoon estuary, Brazil
Provedor de dados: 42
Autores: POERSCH,LUÍS H.; MILACH,ÂNGELA M.; CAVALLI,RONALDO O.; WASIELESKY,WILSON JR.; MÖLLER,OSMAR; CASTELLO,JORGE P.
Ecological modeling has been used as a tool to estimate potential impacts caused by aquaculture to the surrounding environment. In this work, a mathematical model was applied to estimate the maximum amount of pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus paulensis) culture units (3,100m2 pen enclosures) that could be installed at two shallow estuarine bays of Patos Lagoon (known as Coreia and Porto do Rei) with no significant effects on either water quality or viability of the culture system. To calibrate the model, information about the culture of Litopenaeus vannamei and F. paulensis as well as field data (influence of netting material, water current speed and nitrogen concentrations) were used. Under a bad scenario (water current velocity of 0.01m s–1 and a mesh...
Palavras-chave: Nitrogen; Pen shrimp culture; Sustainability; Ecological modeling; Coastal management.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652014000301063

Energy balance and CO2 emission in mechanized biomass harvesting in pine stands under thinning
Provedor de dados: 42
Autores: RODRIGUES,CARLA K.; LOPES,EDUARDO S.; SILVA,DIMAS A.; FIGUEIREDO FILHO,AFONSO; PELISSARI,ALLAN L.
Abstract:  Biomass is an important component of the Brazilian energy matrix, with a potential contribution of co-products from thinned forests. The aim of this work was to evaluate the energy balance and CO2 potential emission in mechanized biomass harvesting operations in Pinus taeda stands at 9 and 10 years-old and under thinning, searching to support the use of co-product biomass from thinning as a renewable energy source. Thinning was carried out through cut-to-length harvesting method, in which large logs for sawmill and small logs for energy were produced. In addition, tops, needles, barks, and branches were considered as co-products. The balance between consumed energy and emitted CO2 by machines for thinning in relationship to the energy and CO2 in...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Biomass energy; Co-product forest biomass; Forest harvesting; Sustainability.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652019000700861

Global environmental change research: empowering developing countries
Provedor de dados: 42
Autores: Nobre,Carlos A.; Lahsen,Myanna; Ometto,Jean P.H.B.
This paper discusses ways to reconcile the United Nations Millennium Development Goals with environmental sustainability at the national and international levels. The authors argue that development and better use of sustainability relevant knowledge is key, and that this requires capacity building globally, and especially in the less developed regions of the world. Also essential is stronger integration of high-quality knowledge creation and technology-and policy-development, including, importantly, the creation of centers of excellence in developing regions which effectively use and produce applications-directed high quality research and bring it to bear on decision making and practices related to environmental change and sustainable management of natural...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA); Knowledge; Development; Ecosystem services.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652008000300012

The Trofobiose Theory and organic agriculture: the active mobilization of nutrients and the use of rock powder as a tool for sustainability
Provedor de dados: 42
Autores: Polito,Wagner L.
The primary objective of the present paper is to link some relevant concepts on the use of ecological agricultural practices to the production of food crops. In a special topic the Trofobiose Theory, as well as the principle of Active Dissolution of Rocks are considered as important tools in improving the sustainability of Organic, Biodynamic and Process Agricultures.
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Trofobiose; Vegetal nutrition; Nutritional equilibrium; Agro-ecology; Rock powders; Mineral fertilizations; Organic fertilization.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652006000400011

Animal-based medicines: biological prospection and the sustainable use of zootherapeutic resources
Provedor de dados: 42
Autores: Costa-Neto,Eraldo M.
Animals have been used as medicinal resources for the treatment and relieve of a myriad of illnesses and diseases in practically every human culture. Although considered by many as superstition, the pertinence of traditional medicine based on animals cannot be denied since they have been methodically tested by pharmaceutical companies as sources of drugs to the modern medical science. The phenomenon of zootherapy represents a strong evidence of the medicinal use of animal resources. Indeed, drug companies and agribusiness firms have been evaluating animals for decades without paying anything to the countries from where these genetic resources are found. The use of animals' body parts as folk medicines is relevant because it implies additional pressure over...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Ethnozoology; Zootherapy; Bioprospection; Sustainability.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652005000100004

Dialogues between social and natural sciences: contribution to the debate on socio-environmental conflicts
Provedor de dados: 42
Autores: Milanez,Bruno.
ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that attempting to solve real problems is a possible approach to bring social and natural sciences together, and suggest that - as Environmental Impact Assessment necessarily brings together social and environmental issues - this debate is a strong candidate for such a task. The argument is based on a general discussion about the possibilities and limitations of Environmental Impact Assessments, the social-environmental impacts of mining activities and three case studies. The analysis of the cases indicates possibilities and limitations of the dialogue between scientists from various areas - and of the collaboration with social movements and affected communities - in avoiding negative impacts of mining projects and,...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Interdisciplinary; Sustainability; Social-environmental conflicts; Mining.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000502335

Integrated multi-trophic culture of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and Amazon river prawn (Macrobrachium amazonicum) in brackish water
Provedor de dados: 45
Autores: Henry-Silva,G.G.; Maia,C.S.P.; Moura,R.S.T.; Bessa Junior,A.P.; Valenti,W.C.
The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of integrated multi-trophic culture of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and Amazon River prawn (Macrobrachium amazonicum) in brackish water by evaluating its limnological characteristics and economic performance. The experiment was completely randomized with four treatments and four repetitions: control treatment with Nile tilapia only, stocked with 2 tilapias/m² (P2C0) and three integrated multi-trophic culture treatments stocked with 2 tilapias/m² and prawns at densities of 4, 8 and 16 prawns/m² (P2C04, P2C08 and P2C16, respectively). The limnological variables of temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, ammonia, orthophosphate and chlorophyll "a" were evaluated and throughout the experiment...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Sustainability; Polyculture.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352015000100265

Water management applied to the processing of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) and Dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in a fish cold storage warehouse in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Provedor de dados: 45
Autores: Souza,A.L.M.; Guimarães,J.T.; Brigida,A.I.S.; Luiz,D.B.; Franco,R.M.; Mesquita,E.F.M.
ABSTRACT The high consumption of water and uncontrolled wastewater generation commonly seen in fish processing plants are a matter of concern. Sustainable actions must be taken to addres this issue. The present study aimed to quantify the water used in the processing of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) and Dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in a fish warehouse in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through water balance and mass balance at each development stage. According to the data obtained, the warehouse showed higher total water use, both in general (7,173.28±265.77m3/month), with most water use intended for processing support activities, approximately 45.00% (3,186.82±407.57m3/month); specifically, in the processing of the selected raw materials, with greater...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Fish processing; Water resources; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352018000401240

Payment scheme for environmental services as a management strategy to regulate artisanal fishing in the Integrated Management District Cispata, Colombia
Provedor de dados: 50
Autores: López Navarro,Johann; Contreras Araque,Andrea.
ABSTRACT Marine and coastal ecosystems are characterized as highly productive areas in terms of the benefits they provide to humanity, with food provision being one of the most important. In 2018, in the Cispata Integrated Management District (DMI Cispata), due to the decrease in fishing resources, artisanal fishermen signed agreements for the recovery of the resource; however, they have not been implemented for various reasons. This study shows the viability of a Payment Scheme for Environmental Services as an alternative to induce compliance with fishing agreements. The analysis developed here indicates that the DMI Cispata fulfills the necessary conditions to implement this economic instrument benefiting 20 fishing organizations in the area.
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: IMD Cispata; Payment Scheme for Environmental Services; Incentive; Fishermen; Sustainability.
Ano: 2021
URL: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97612021000100179

Microbial biomass and enzyme activity of a Cerrado Oxisol under agroecological production system
Provedor de dados: 53
Autores: Ferreira,Enderson Petrônio de Brito; Wendland,Adriane; Didonet,Agostinho Dirceu.
Aiming to evaluate the effects of soil management and cover crops on microbial indicators of soil quality, an experiment was carried out under field conditions in which common bean and corn were cropped under no-tillage (NT) and conventional tillage (CT) after sunnhemp, velvet bean, pigeon pea, jack bean, sorghum and fallow (weeds). The basal soil respiration (BSR), C and N of the microbial biomass (Cmic and Nmic), metabolic quotient (qCO2), total enzymatic activity (TEA), β-glycosidase (β-GA) activity and acid phosphatase activity (APA) were evaluated in samples collected in 0-0.10 m depth. Cmic, qCO2, TEA, β-GA and APA were more sensitive in determining the effects caused by tillage and cover crops. Although the cover crops had not provided a remarkably...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Green manure; Cover crops; Soil quality; Sustainability.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052011000400024

Budbreak induction in kiwifruit vines cultivated in an organic system by the biological method of single node cutting
Provedor de dados: 53
Autores: Santos,Rodrigo Fernandes dos; Marques,Léo Omar Duarte; Mello-Farias,Paulo; Martins,Carlos Roberto; Konzen,Luis Henrique; Carvalho,Ivan Ricardo; Malgarim,Marcelo Barbosa.
ABSTRACT Kiwifruit vines are an alternative approach to diversify Brazilian fruit farming because of the low supply and increase in the demand for their fruits. Hydrogenated cyanamide, which is the most common rest-breaking agent, is highly toxic and its use is not allowed in organic production systems. This study aimed at evaluating the efficiency of alternative rest-breaking agents in kiwifruit vines by using the biological method of single node cutting. Twigs of the cultivar Bruno were collected in an organic orchard in Pelotas, a city located in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Seven-centimeter-long cuts with a single shoot at the ends were segmented. Cuttings were placed on plastic trays with phenolic foam and soaked in water, at 85% relative humidity...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Actinidia deliciosa; Sustainability; Ecophysiology; Adaptation; Mild winter.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052020005004201

Economic Viability of Tomato Cultivation in Organic Farming System
Provedor de dados: 52
Autores: Santos Neto,José dos; Schwan-Estrada,Kátia Regina Freitas; Sena,José Ozinaldo Alves de; Telles,Tiago Santos.
ABSTRACT The aim of the present study is to evaluate the economic viability of tomato cultivation in a system of organic farming, and to compare it with the conventional farming system. The fixed and variable costs of both cultivation systems were calculated, as well as the costs of disease control with the application of alternative products and pesticides. The revenues were computed using commercial production and the direct sales price. The total cost per area was higher in the conventional system, while the cost per plant was greater in the organic system, since it used a lower plant population density. In the conventional system, 2.33 times more was spent on plant management, due to the fact that the number of sprayings was greater than that carried...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Solanum lycopersicum; Cymbopogon citratus; Costs of production; Production systems.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132017000100205

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Wind Power Generation: Application of the Methodology and the Generator to Power System
Provedor de dados: 52
Autores: Silva,Mozart Tavares da; Rebutini,Vanessa Zadorosnei; Mancini,Fabrízio Nicolai.
ABSTRACT Sustainability and economics are current issues in the generation of electricity. The energy matrix is diversified and some forms have stood out, such as wind. Some tools have been developed to improve project efficiency, one of which is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This presents solidity when assisting projects financially and environmentally, evaluating materials and processes. The present study aimed to analyze the application of LCA in a wind power plant. After searching the main databases and using filters, the analysis was developed from the information of an article that described the application of the LCA to a wind power plant using computational simulation, providing an overview of the production and potential environmental impacts for...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Wind farm; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132018000200224

Staphylococcus xylosus fermentation of pork fatty waste: raw material for biodiesel production
Provedor de dados: 58
Autores: Marques,Roger Vasques; Paz,Matheus Francisco da; Duval,Eduarda Hallal; Corrêa,Luciara Bilhalva; Corrêa,Érico Kunde.
ABSTRACT The need for cleaner sources of energy has stirred research into utilising alternate fuel sources with favourable emission and sustainability such as biodiesel. However, there are technical constraints that hinder the widespread use of some of the low cost raw materials such as pork fatty wastes. Currently available technology permits the use of lipolytic microorganisms to sustainably produce energy from fat sources; and several microorganisms and their metabolites are being investigated as potential energy sources. Thus, the aim of this study was to characterise the process of Staphylococcus xylosus mediated fermentation of pork fatty waste. We also wanted to explore the possibility of fermentation effecting a modification in the lipid carbon...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Microorganism; Staphylococcus xylosus; Waste recovery; Slaughterhouse waste.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822016000300675

Sustainability, natural and organic cosmetics: consumer, products, efficacy, toxicological and regulatory considerations
Provedor de dados: 60
Autores: Fonseca-Santos,Bruno; Corrêa,Marcos Antonio; Chorilli,Marlus.
The interest in sustainable products has increased along the years, since the choice of products, packaging and production processes have a great impact on the environment. These products are classified by regulatory agencies in different categories, aggregating advantages to the product and increasing the demand by consumers. However, there is no harmonization in guidelines of these certifying agencies and each cosmetic industry formulates their product and packaging in a more rational way, which causes less damage to the environment. Many cosmetic products have in their formulation natural products that perform a specific biological function, but these products should be evaluated on efficacy and toxicological aspects. The aim of this article is to...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Organic cosmetics; Natural cosmetics; Natural products; Sustainability; Cosmetics; Cosmetics.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502015000100017

Organic Versus Conventional Methods of Fertilization and Weed Control in a Long Term Rotation of Cereals in Semiarid Spain
Provedor de dados: 117
Autores: Pardo,Gabriel; Aibar,Joaquín; Ciria,Pilar; Lacasta,Carlos; Lezaún,Juan Antonio; Zaragoza,Carlos.
Under semiarid conditions the response of cereal crops to chemical fertilizers and weed control practices with herbicides is often reduced. In fact, the economic profitability of agricultural production in many dryland regions is critically affected by high costs of inputs and low crop yields. As a solution, cropping systems like organic farming, obtaining similar yields and promoting environmental sustainability by reducing fertilizer and herbicides, could be an alternative to conventional systems. In this study, 23 trials were performed in five semiarid regions of Spain during 5 yr to compare different fertilizers and weed control methods on durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) yields. The following rotation pattern was...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Ecological agriculture; Crop rotation; Compost; Flex-tine harrow.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-58392011000200002

Integrated Water Resources Management for Sustainable Irrigation at the Basin Scale
Provedor de dados: 117
Autores: Billib,Max; Bardowicks,Karin; Arumí,José Luis.
The objective of this paper is to review the state of art on integrated water resources management (IWRM) approaches for sustainable irrigation at the basin scale under semi-arid and arid climatic conditions, with main emphasis on Latin America, but including case studies of other semi-arid and arid regions in the world. In Latin America the general concept of IWRM has proved to be hard to implement. Case studies recommend to develop the approach from lower to upper scale and oriented at the end-user. As IWRM is an interdisciplinary approach and used for very different objectives, the main emphasis is given to IWRM approaches for sustainable irrigation and their environmental aspects. The review shows that in Latin America the environmental impact is...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Water resources management; Basin; Sustainability; Irrigation.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-58392009000500007

Sustainable Agriculture: Unifying Concepts
Provedor de dados: 118
Autores: Gastó,Juan; Vera,Leonardo; Vieli,Lorena; Montalba,Rene.
This work is the product of a long process that tried to approximate the principia involved in sustainable agriculture in an attempt to analyze it. We believe that these principia are crucial for the systematic, rigorous, and consistent development of sustainable agriculture. The unifying concepts of agriculture sustainability are classified into seven fundamental principies: (i) there is a hierarchy in decision-making with respect to human actions on the landscape and environment; (ii) human impact on the land should be analyzed from different perspectives (local, global, anthropocentric, and ecocentric); (iii) the carrying capacity in an agrarian context is crucial to ecosystem management and design; (iv) humans arrange nature with little consideration...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Cultural landscape; Nature; Territory; Sustainability.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-16202009000100001

Bioenergy production capacity in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina
Provedor de dados: 118
Autores: Montico,Sergio.
Bioenergy is a renewable source of primary energy and its sustainable use is an advantage to the current global energy crisis. The use of vegetable resources for energy purposes requires specific studies of the impacts that might occur to the economy and the environment. The province of Santa Fe (Argentina) has an agroproductive structure capable of providing biomass for its processing and production of energy. The objective of this work was to value the capacity of this province for bioenergy production from grains transformation into biofuels and the biomass energy from crop straw, and speculates on the impact on soils from removed crop residues. Crop residues of the ten most important grain and oilseed crops (15.2x10(6) Mg year-1) and bioethanol and...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Biofuels; Bioenergy; Crops residues; Sustainability.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-16202009000300013

Nutritional and functional characterization of wild and cultivated Sarcocornia neei grown in Chile
Provedor de dados: 118
Autores: Riquelme,Javiera; Olaeta,José Antonio; Gálvez,Lena; Undurraga,Pedro; Fuentealba,Claudia; Osses,Andrea; Orellana,Jaime; Gallardo,José; Pedreschi,Romina.
Sarcocornia neei is a halophyte that grows on the coast of the Valparaiso Region of Chile. Studies related to its nutritional and functional value under wild and cultivated conditions are not available. Thus, in this study, a nutritional (complete proximal, mineral and dietary fiber analysis) and functional characterization (total phenolics, &amp;#946;-carotene, hydrophilic and lipophilic antioxidant activity (HAA and LAA) and ascorbic acid) were performed for wild and cultivated plants. Wild plants displayed higher amounts of compounds involved in stress defense mechanisms such as total phenolics, proteins, dietary fiber and ash. The mineral analysis revealed that Na+ and Cl- are the main ions accumulated in wild and cultivated Sarcocornia neei that are...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Antioxidant; Dietary fiber; Proximal analysis; Seawater; Sustainability.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-16202016000200011

Energy balance of irrigated maize silage
Provedor de dados: 65
Autores: Ferreira,Tomás de Aquino; Ferreira,Sílvia Costa; Barbosa,Jackson Antônio; Volpato,Carlos Eduardo Silva; Ferreira,Rute Costa; Silva,Marielle Jordane da; Barbosa,Leonardo Maia.
ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the energy balance and energy efficiency of the silage maize crop in the Center for Research, Development and Technology Transfer of the Universidade Federal de Lavras (CDTT-UFLA). The crop was irrigated by center pivot and the stages of maize cultivation and energy inputs were monitored for the 1st and 2nd crops of the 2014/2015 harvest. Results from the energy analysis showed the crop had a total energy input of 45,643.85 MJ ha-1 and 47,303.60 MJ ha-1 for the 1st and 2nd crops and a significant predominance of direct energy type (about 92% of the matrix). Regarding direct energy inputs, the diesel oil was the most representative, contributing with approximately 38% of the total energy demand....
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Energy efficiency; Energy in agriculture; Center pivot; Sustainability.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782018000500351

Load-bearing capacity of a red-yellow latosol cultivated with coffee plants subjected to different weed managements
Provedor de dados: 64
Autores: Pais,Paula Sant'Anna Moreira; Dias Junior,Moacir de Souza; Dias,Adriana Cristina; Iori,Piero; Guimarães,Paulo Tácito Gontijo; Santos,Gislene Aparecida dos.
It is essential to know the levels of pressure applied to the soil by different weed managements to adapt the management of coffee plantations in a sustainable manner. The objectives of this study were: a) to generate load-bearing capacity models of a Red-Yellow Latosol (Oxisol) submitted to different weed managements and b) to determine which weed management resulted in higher compression. The study was conducted at the Experimental Farm of EPAMIG, located near the community Farias, in Lavras-MG (latitude 21° 14' 43" S and longitude 44° 59' 59" W and altitude of 919 m). The soil is a Red-Yellow Latosol (LVA) cultivated with coffee plantation using Topazio MG 1190 coffee variety, since 2006. We evaluated five weed managements, three being through...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Coffee culture; Soil compaction; Sustainability; Preconsolidation stress; Soil structure.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542013000200005

CRAMBE CAKE (Crambe abyssinica hochst) ON LAMB DIETS
Provedor de dados: 64
Autores: Canova,Érika Breda; Bueno,Mauro Sartori; Moreira,Heverton Luis; Possenti,Rosana; Brás,Patrícia.
The use of alternative feedstuffs in animal diet, such as residues derived from the biodiesel production aims to increase productivity and reduce costs in animal production. Them aim of this study was to evaluate the substitution effect of 0, 22, 44 and 64% of soybean meal protein by Crambe cake (Crambe abyssinica Hochst) protein in lamb diet. In the in vivo experiment, 20 lambs were used and evaluated the apparent digestibility, nitrogen balance and voluntary DM intake. The replacement of the protein resulted in a linear decrease in apparent digestibility coefficient (ADC) of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), ether extract (EE), gross energy (GE), acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), cellulose (CEL) and the percentage of total...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Co-product; Digestibility; Enteric methane; Sheep; Sustainability.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542015000100075

Soil maps, field knowledge, forest inventory and Ecological-Economic Zoning as a basis for agricultural suitability of lands in Minas Gerais elaborated in GIS
Provedor de dados: 64
Autores: Silva,Vladimir Antonio; Curi,Nilton; Marques,João José Granate; Carvalho,Luis Marcelo Tavares de; Santos,Walbert Júnior Reis dos.
Lands (broader concept than soils, including all elements of the environment: soils, geology, topography, climate, water resources, flora and fauna, and the effects of anthropogenic activities) of the state of Minas Gerais are in different soil, climate and socio-economics conditions and suitability for the production of agricultural goods is therefore distinct and mapping of agricultural suitability of the state lands is crucial for planning guided sustainability. Geoprocessing uses geographic information treatment techniques and GIS allows to evaluate geographic phenomena and their interrelationships using digital maps. To evaluate the agricultural suitability of state lands, we used soil maps, field knowledge, forest inventories and databases related to...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Geoprocessing; Land suitable for agriculture; Sustainability; Multicriteria analysis.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542013000600007

Sustainable productive intensification for family farming in developing tropical countries
Provedor de dados: 64
Autores: Taveira,Luís Renato Silva; Carvalho,Teotonio Soares de; Teixeira,Anita Fernanda dos Santos; Curi,Nilton.
ABSTRACT In the past, agriculture was directed to satisfying human needs. Nowadays, it is directed to meeting the markets, forcing the peasantries to adapt to this condition. As a result, family farmers are multifaceted, incorporating both subsistence and market-oriented production. Traditional farming systems have been challenged since there is a pressure for the intensification of these systems. Then, it is important that scientific research about them goes on to recognize that many family farmers use limited resource bases. However, innovation and intensification are permanent needs of agriculture, although they must be adjusted to different contexts, respecting the cultural legacy of family farmers as a prerequisite for achieving the development.
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Farming system; Sustainability; Family farmer; Capitalism; Food production.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542019000100700

Production of lipase extrated from aqueous waste: enzymatic activity kinetics
Provedor de dados: 64
Autores: Oliveira,Tatianne Ferreira de; Hidálgo,Maria Raquel; Soares Júnior,Manoel Soares.
Lipases are an important group of enzymes with various applications in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industry, besides having great interest for the treatment of effluents with high lipid content. The objective of this study was to isolate, characterize and select lipolytic bacteria that produce lipase from aqueous waste effluents and to study the enzymatic activity kinetics of the extract obtained via submerged fermentation. The results obtained are promising, being possible to isolate and characterize 23 lipase-producing microorganisms, mostly gram-positive bacteria, but after the fermentation step in a liquid medium, gram negative bacteria showed the highest enzymatic activity (56.72 U.L-1 for STP 2A` bacterium and 81.99 U.L-1 for R2B). In the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Microbial extract; Effluent treatment; Sustainability.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542014000600005