Researching the Ecological Basis for Sustainable Agriculture Gliessman, Stephen R. Editor mixed material bibliography NEW YORK Springer-Verlag Inc 1990 en English

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The idea for this book developed when the Third International Congress of Ecology planned for Poland in 1982 had to be cancelled. In the two previous Congresses (1974, 1978), ecological research in agricultural ecosystems had begun to emerge as an important area of activity. I had been asked by Frank Golley, current President of the International Association of Ecology (INTECOL), which organizes the Congress, to plan a symposium on research in agroecology for the 1982 Congress. After the cancellation, I began to organize this book. Interestingly, in 1982 most of the research in this emerging field was taking place in so-called "developing countries" of the tropics. It seemed as ifthe value of an ecological approach to agriculture had gained early recognition in tropical areas of the world, because of the combined pressures ofthe tropical environment and the necessity to develop food production systems that depended less on the purchase of costly, usually imported inputs. AGROECOLOGY 630 Gli a 9780387970288 e-BOOK UPT Perpustakaan Instiper Yogyakarta 630 Gli a Agroecology_Researching_the_Ecological_Basis_for_Sustainable_Agriculture.jpg.jpg 161 2018-09-17 14:23:45 2018-09-17 14:25:31 machine generated