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An African Green Revolution [[electronic resource] ] : Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Small Farms / / edited by Keijiro Otsuka, Donald F. Larson
An African Green Revolution [[electronic resource] ] : Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Small Farms / / edited by Keijiro Otsuka, Donald F. Larson
Edizione [1st ed. 2013.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (310 p.)
Disciplina 338.1096
Soggetto topico Environmental engineering
Biotechnology
Agricultural economics
Economic policy
Development economics
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Agricultural Economics
Economic Policy
Development Economics
ISBN 1-283-94527-4
94-007-5760-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Contents: -- 1. An Overview -- Part I: Climate and the Transferability of Asian Green Revolution to Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2. Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution in Rice -- 3. The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-Scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 4. The Declining Impacts of Climate on Crop Yields during the Green Revolution in India, 1972-2002 -- 5. The Impact of Technological Changes on Crop Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1967 to 2004 -- Part II: Prospects for Upland Rice and Maize Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 6. Causes and Consequences of NERICA Adoption in Uganda -- 7. Impact of NERICA Adoption on Rice Yield: Evidence from West Africa -- 8. Maize Revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 9. Maize, Soil Fertility, Fertilizer, and the Green Revolution in East Africa -- Part III: The Role of Fertilizer Markets and Fertilizer Application -- 10. Chemical Fertilizer, Organic Fertilizer, and Cereal Yields in India -- 11. The Demand for Fertilizer when Markets are Incomplete: Evidence from Ethiopia -- 12. Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Evidence from Experimental Intervention in Maize Production in Uganda -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 13. Towards a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics [[electronic resource] ] : Interpreting Ubuntu / / by Leonard Tumaini Chuwa
African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics [[electronic resource] ] : Interpreting Ubuntu / / by Leonard Tumaini Chuwa
Autore Chuwa Leonard Tumaini
Edizione [1st ed. 2014.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (262 p.)
Disciplina 174.957
Collana Advancing Global Bioethics
Soggetto topico Ethics
Medical ethics
Culture—Study and teaching
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Regional and Cultural Studies
ISBN 94-017-8625-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter-1 ""; ""Introduction: The Culture of Ubuntu""; ""1.1 Emergence of Global Bioethics ""; ""1.1.1 Inevitable Birth of Global Bioethics ""; ""1.1.1.1 Limited Scope of Medical Ethics and the Increasing Need for Global Bioethics""; ""1.1.1.2 Political Bases for the Genesis of Global Bioethics ""; ""1.1.1.3 Demographical Conditions that Necessitated Emergence of Global Bioethics ""; ""1.1.2 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as Appropriate Response to the Needs of the Times""; ""1.1.2.1 Globalization ""
""1.1.2.2 Infectious Diseases """"1.1.2.3 International Trade ""; ""1.1.3 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as an Unconscious Recognition of Ubuntu""; ""1.1.3.1 Humans should not be Used as Mere Means to Whatever End ""; ""1.1.3.2 Increasingly Obvious Need for International Bioethical Policymaking Board""; ""1.1.3.3 The Increasing Need to Recognize Human Basic Equality Globally ""; ""1.2 Exploration of Ubuntu ""; ""1.2.1 Meaning of Ubuntu ""; ""1.2.2 Ubuntu is Anthropocentric, Theocentric and Cosmocentric ""; ""1.2.2.1 Interdependence ""
""1.2.2.2 Need for Otherness """"1.2.2.3 Ubuntu and Unity ""; ""1.2.3 Ubuntu Ethics of Immortality ""; ""1.2.3.1 Personal Immortality ""; ""1.2.3.2 The Importance of Marriage and Procreation ""; ""1.2.3.3 Ubuntu Theory of Moral Development ""; ""1.3 Relevance of Ubuntu Worldview ""; ""1.3.1 Ubuntu Existential-Relational Epistemology ""; ""1.3.2 Ubuntu Relational and Holistic Perspective on Human Disease ""; ""1.3.3 Ubuntu Communitarian Healthcare Ethics ""; ""1.4 Conclusion ""; ""Chapter-2""; ""Ubuntu Ethics""; ""2.1 Tension Between Individual and Universal Rights""
""2.1.1 Inalienable Rights""""2.1.1.1 Personal Rights within Communitarian Context""; ""2.1.1.2 Individual�s Personal Rights are Defined by Others� Personal Rights""; ""2.1.2 Human Relationships""; ""2.1.2.1 Anthropological and Epistemological Perspective""; ""2.1.2.2 Otherness""; ""2.1.2.3 Communitarianism""; ""2.1.3 Reciprocity of Care""; ""2.1.3.1 Reciprocity as the Bond Between the Community and an Individual""; ""2.1.3.2 Ujamaa as Praxis of Ubuntu Reciprocity""; ""2.1.3.3 Importance of Marriage and Procreation""; ""2.2 Cosmic and Global Context""; ""2.2.1 Justice""
""2.2.1.1 Ubuntu Justice is Reparative Rather than Retributive""""2.2.1.2 Ubuntu Justice is Distributive""; ""2.2.1.3 Ubuntu Justice is Communitarian""; ""2.2.2 Diversity""; ""2.2.2.1 Anthropocentrism and Respect for Diversity""; ""2.2.2.2 Otherness as Source, Objective and Rationale of Morality""; ""2.2.2.3 Tension Between Diversity, Communitarianism and Human Freedom""; ""2.2.3 Biosphere""; ""2.2.3.1 The Self and the Cosmos in Relationship""; ""2.2.3.2 Role of and Respect for Other Forms of Life""; ""2.2.3.3 Sacredness of the Biosphere""; ""2.3 The Role of Solidarity""
""2.3.1 Common Good""
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Chuwa Leonard Tumaini  
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African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Essays / / edited by Oche Onazi
African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Essays / / edited by Oche Onazi
Edizione [1st ed. 2014.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina 349.6
Collana Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
Soggetto topico Law—Philosophy
Law
Political science
Criminology
Culture—Study and teaching
Development economics
International education 
Comparative education
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
Philosophy of Law
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general
Regional and Cultural Studies
Development Economics
International and Comparative Education
ISBN 94-007-7537-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction; Oche Onazi -- Part I:  Law -- Chapter 1 On ‘African’ Legal Theory: A Possibility, An Impossibility or Mere Conundrum?; Chikosa Mozesi Silungwe -- Chapter 2 When British Justice (in African Colonies) Points Two Ways: On Dualism, Hybridity, and the Genealogy of Juridical Negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias; Mark Toufayan -- Chapter 3 Decoding Afrocentrism: Decolonizing Legal Theory; Dan Kuwali -- Chapter 4 Connecting African Jurisprudence to Universal Jurisprudence through a shared understanding of Contract; Dominic Burbidge -- Chapter The Legal Subject in Modern African Law: A Nigerian Report; Olúfémi Táíwó -- Part II: Rights -- Chapter 6 African Values, Human Rights and Group Rights: A Philosophical Foundation for the Banjul Charter; Thaddeus Metz -- Chapter 7 Before Rights and Responsibilities: An African Ethos of Citizenship; Oche Onazi -- Chapter 8 The Practice and the Promise of Making Rights Claims: Lessons from the South African Treatment Access Campaign; Karen Zivi.- Chapter 9 Unpacking the Universal: African Human Rights Philosophy in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Basil Ugochukwu -- Part III: Society -- Chapter 10 Legal Empowerment of the Poor:  Does Political Participation matter? Oche Onazi -- Chapter 11 The Humanist basis of African Communitarianism as viable third alternative theory of developmentalism; Adebisi Arewa -- 12 Crime Detection and the Psychic Witness in America: an Allegory for re-appraising Indigenous African Criminology; Babafemi Odunsi -- Index.
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Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers [[electronic resource] ] : Current Reality, Future Solutions / / edited by Patricia Brownell, James J. Kelly
Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers [[electronic resource] ] : Current Reality, Future Solutions / / edited by Patricia Brownell, James J. Kelly
Edizione [1st ed. 2013.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina 362.6
Soggetto topico Aging
Human rights
Psychotherapy
Counseling
Personnel management
Geriatrics
Human Rights
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Human Resource Management
Geriatrics/Gerontology
ISBN 1-283-93620-8
94-007-5521-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Foreword (Gloria M. Gutman) -- Preface (Patricia Brownell & James J. Kelly) -- Part I: Understanding Mistreatment of Older Workers: A Human Rights Perspective and Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 1: Older Workers and Human Rights: National and International Policies and Realities (Denise Gosselin Caldera) -- Chapter 2: Definitions and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers (Patricia Brownell & Mebane Powell) -- Part II: Current Reality -- Chapter 3: Harassment of Older Adults in the Workplace (Amy Blackstone) -- Chapter 4: What Do Newspapers Say About Older Adults in the Workplace? (Mebane Powell) -- Chapter 5: The Evolution of Retirement as Systematic Ageism (Lynn McDonald) -- Part III: Future Solutions -- Chapter 6: Creating Supportive Workplace Environments for Older Workers (Elizabeth Ciampa & Roslyn Chernesky) -- Chapter 7: Human Resource Departments and Older Adults in the Workplace (James Woolever) -- Chapter 8: Counseling Older Workers Confronting Ageist Stereotypes and Discrimination (Margo Jackson) -- Chapter 9: Legal and Legislative Issues in Protecting Older Adults in the Workplace: An International Perspective (Charmaine Spencer) -- Chapter 10: International Protection for the Human Rights of Older People: History and Future Prospects (Israel Doron, Bethany Brown & Susan B. Somers) -- Looking Ahead (Patricia Brownell & James J. Kelly).
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Agency, Freedom and Choice [[electronic resource] /] / by Constanze Binder
Agency, Freedom and Choice [[electronic resource] /] / by Constanze Binder
Autore Binder Constanze
Edizione [1st ed. 2019.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (165 pages)
Disciplina 658.403
Collana Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
Soggetto topico Political philosophy
Ethics
Philosophy and social sciences
Economic theory
Operations research
Decision making
Political Philosophy
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Operations Research/Decision Theory
ISBN 94-024-1615-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Philosophical Literature on (Overall) Freedom -- 1.2 Freedom Ranking Literature -- 1.3 The Capability Approach -- 1.4 Outline of the Thesis -- 2 Freedom's Agency Value -- 2.1 Overall Freedom -- 2.2 Desire Dependencies -- 2.3 The Impossibility of Paternalism -- 2.4 The Non-specific Value Neglect -- 2.5 Agency and the Importance of Values -- 2.6 The Necessity of a Value-Based Approach -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Diversity Revealed -- 3.1 The Freedom Ranking Literature -- 3.2 Diversity of Options and Freedom Rankings -- 3.3 Definitions -- 3.4 Similarity Relation -- 3.5 Diversity Measure -- 3.6 Weitzman and a Restricted Domain -- 3.7 Diversity and Cardinality of Alternatives -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4 Plural Identities and Preference Formation -- 4.1 Agency, Plural Identities and Rational Choice Theory -- 4.2 Intra-personal Aggregation -- 4.3 Identity Formalised -- 4.4 Conditions -- 4.5 Transitivity -- 4.6 Acyclicity -- 4.7 Identity Dissonance and a Domain Restriction -- 4.8 Conclusion -- 5 Freedom Rankings and Freedom's Agency Value -- 5.1 Freedom Rankings and the Value of Alternatives -- 5.2 Freedom Rankings between Scylla and Charybdis -- 5.3 Freedom's Agency Value and Preference-based Approaches -- 5.4 Identity and Procedural Reasonableness -- 5.5 Desire Dependency and the Impossibility of Paternalism, Reconsidered -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 Cultural Diversity and the Capability Approach -- 6.1 The Capability Approach -- 6.2 Culture and the Construction of Capability Sets -- 6.3 Culture and the Ranking of Capability Sets -- 6.4 Norms and the Value of Functionings -- 6.5 Context Dependency of Valuable Functionings -- 6.6 Limits of Capability- and Freedom-Rankings -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- 7.1 Review of the Chapters -- 7.2 Open Questions -- Appendix 1 Diversity -- Appendix 2 Identity and Preference -- Appendix 3 Eligibility -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Binder Constanze  
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Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Koen H. van Dam, Igor Nikolic, Zofia Lukszo
Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Koen H. van Dam, Igor Nikolic, Zofia Lukszo
Edizione [1st ed. 2013.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina 001.4/22
Collana Agent-Based Social Systems
Soggetto topico Computer simulation
Computational complexity
Computational intelligence
Social sciences
Business
Management science
Energy systems
Simulation and Modeling
Complexity
Computational Intelligence
Social Sciences, general
Business and Management, general
Energy Systems
Soggetto genere / forma Case studies.
ISBN 1-283-69809-9
94-007-4933-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Foreword by Prof Nigel Gilbert -- Preface by the editors -- 1 Introduction; G.P.J. Dijkema, Z. Lukszo and M.P.C. Weijnen -- Part I Theory and practice -- 2 Theory; I. Nikolic and J. Kasmire.-3 Practice; I. Nikolic, K.H. van Dam and J. Kasmire -- Part II Case Studies -- 4 Introduction to the Case Studies; K.H. van Dam, I. Nikolic and Z. Lukszo -- 5 Agent-Based Models of Supply Chains; B. Behdani, K.H. van Dam and Z. Lukszo -- 6 An Agent-Based Model of Consumer Lighting; E.J.L. Chappin and M.R. Afman -- 7 An Agent-based Model of CO2 Policies and Electricity Generation; E.J.L. Chappin and G.P.J. Dijkema -- 8 An Agent-Based Model of a Mobile Phone Production, Consumption and Recycling Network; L.A. Bollinger, C.B. Davis and I. Nikolic -- 9 Next Steps in Modelling Socio-Technical Systems: Towards Collaborative Modelling; A. Chmieliauskas, C.B. Davis and L.A. Bollinger -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Agreement Technologies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sascha Ossowski
Agreement Technologies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sascha Ossowski
Edizione [1st ed. 2013.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (654 p.)
Disciplina 006.3
Collana Law, Governance and Technology Series
Soggetto topico Artificial intelligence
Law—Philosophy
Law
Sociology
Application software
Political science
Artificial Intelligence
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
Sociology, general
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
Political Science
Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
ISBN 94-007-5583-X
1-283-94646-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Part I Foundations -- 1 Agreement Technologies: A Computing perspective; Sascha Ossowski, Carles Sierra and Vicente Botti -- 2 Agreement and Relational Justice: A Perspective from Philosophy and Sociology of Law; Pompeu Casanovas -- 3 Agreements as the Grease (not the Glue) of Society: A Cognitive and Social Science Perspective; Fabio Paglieri -- Part II Semantics in Agreement Technologies -- 4 Agreement Technologies and the Semantic Web; Axel Polleres -- 5 Logical formalisms for Agreement Technologies; Antoine Zimmermann -- 6 Reconciling heterogeneous knowledge with ontology matching; Cássia Trojahn and George Vouros -- 7 Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems; Nicoletta Fornara, Gordan Ježi´c, Mario Kušek, Ignac Lovrek, Vedran Podobnik, Krunoslav Tržec -- 8 SemanticWeb Services in Agreement Technologies; Zijie Cong and Alberto Fernández -- 9 Using ontologies to manage resources in Grid computing—practical aspects; Michał Drozdowicz, Maria Ganzha, Katarzyna Wasielewska, MarcinPaprzycki and Paweł Szmeja -- Part III Norms -- 10 Deontic logic; Jan Broersen, Dov Gabbay, Andreas Herzig, Emiliano Lorini, John-Jules Meyer, Xavier Parent and Leendert van der Torre -- 11 (Social) Norms and Agent-Based Simulation; Giulia Andrighetto, Stephen Cranefield, Rosaria Conte, Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu and Daniel Villatoro -- 12 Norms in Game Theory; Davide Grossi, Luca Tummolini and Paolo Turrini -- 13 AI and Law; Giovanni Sartor and Antonino Rotolo -- 14 Normative Agents; Michael Luck, Samhar Mahmoud, Felipe Meneguzzi, Martin Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Natalia Criado and Moser SilvaFagundes -- 15 Norms and Trust; Rino Falcone, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Andrew Jones and Eugénio Oliveira -- 16 Norms and Argumentation; Nir Oren, Antonino Rotolo, Leendert van der Torre and Serena Villata -- Part IV Organisations and Institutions -- 17 Describing agent organisations; Estefanía Argente, Olivier Boissier, Sergio Esparcia, Jana Görmer, Kristi Kirikal and Kuldar Taveter -- 18 Modelling Agent Institutions; Nicoletta Fornara, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Pablo Noriega, Eugénio Oliveira and Charalampos Tampitsikas -- 19 Organisational Reasoning Agents; Olivier Boissier and M. Birna van Riemsdijk -- 20 Adaptive Agent Organisations; Estefanía Argente, Holger Billhardt, Carlos Cuesta, Sergio Esparcia, Jana Görmer, Ramón Hermoso, Kristi Kirikal, Marin Lujak, José-Santiago Pérez-Sotelo and Kuldar Taveter --  Part V Argumentation and Negotiation -- 21 The Added Value of Argumentation; Sanjay Modgil, Francesca Toni, Floris Bex, Ivan Bratko, Carlos I. Chesñevar, Wolfgang Dvoˇrák, Marcelo A. Falappa, Xiuyi Fan, Sarah Alice Gaggl, Alejandro J. García, María P. González, Thomas F. Gordon, João Leite, Martin Možina, Chris Reed, Guillermo R. Simari, Stefan Szeider, Paolo Torroni and Stefan Woltran --  22 Trends in Multiagent Negotiation: from Bilateral Bargaining to Consensus Policies; Enrique de la Hoz, Miguel A. López-Carmona and Iván Marsá-Maestre -- Part VI Trust and Reputation -- 23 A Socio-Cognitive Perspective of Trust; Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira -- 24 Qualitative Assessment Dynamics – QAD; Denis Trˇcek -- 25 Argumentation and Trust; Andrew Koster, Jordi Sabater-Mir and Marco Schorlemmer -- 26 Ontology, Semantics and Reputation; Andrew Koster and Jeff Z. Pan -- 27 Attacks and Vulnerabilities of Trust and Reputation Models; Jose M. Such -- 28 Reputation and Organisations; Olivier Boissier, Jomi Fred Hübner and Laurent Vercouter -- 29 Building Relationships with Trust; Carles Sierra and John Debenham -- Part VII Applications -- 30 Arguing to Support Customers: the Call Centre Study Case; Stella Heras, Jaume Jordán, Vicente Botti and Vicente Julián -- 31 Agreement Technologies for Supporting the Planning and Execution of Transports; Paul Davidsson, Marie Gustafsson Friberger, Johan Holmgren, Andreas Jacobsson and Jan A. Persson -- 32 ANTE: Agreement Negotiation in Normative and Trust-enabled Environments; Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, António J. M. Castro and Eugénio Oliveira -- 33 mWater, a Case Study for Modeling Virtual Markets; Antonio Garrido, Adriana Giret, Vicente Botti and Pablo Noriega -- 34 v-mWater: an e-Government Application for Water Rights Agreements; Pablo Almajano, Tomas Trescak, Marc Esteva, Inmaculada Rodríguez and Maite López-Sánchez -- 35 Coordinating Emergency Medical Assistance; Marin Lujak and Holger Billhardt -- 36 An environment to build and track agent-based business collaborations; Toni Penya-Alba, Boris Mikhaylov, Marc Pujol-González, Bruno Rosell, Jesús Cerquides, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Marc Esteva, Àngela Fàbregues, Jordi Madrenas, Carles Sierra, Carlos Carrascosa, Vicente Julián, Mario Rodrigo and Matteo Vasirani -- 37 A Virtual Selling Agent which is Persuasive and Adaptive; Fabien Delecroix, Maxime Morge and Jean-Christophe Routier -- A Editors’ Short Bios.
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Agrimonde – Scenarios and Challenges for Feeding the World in 2050 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sandrine Paillard, Sébastien Treyer, Bruno Dorin
Agrimonde – Scenarios and Challenges for Feeding the World in 2050 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sandrine Paillard, Sébastien Treyer, Bruno Dorin
Edizione [1st ed. 2014.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina 338.19
Soggetto topico Agriculture
Sustainable development
Agricultural economics
Sustainable Development
Agricultural Economics
ISBN 94-017-8745-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preface -- Agrimonde: a work collective -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Agrimonde: a platform for facilitating collective scenario-building -- 2 Agribiom: a tool for scenario-building and hybrid modelling -- 3 The world food economy: a retrospective overview -- 4 Scenario-building choices and principles -- 5 Food consumption in 2050 -- 6 Land use in 2050 -- 7 Food crop yields in 2050 -- 8 Resource-use balances in the Agrimonde scenarios -- 9 Agrimonde 1 and Agrimonde GO: comparison, coherence, drivers of change -- 10 Qualitative dimensions and Agrimonde scenario storylines -- 11 Scenario-based insight into food behaviours, technological options and trade :Food behaviours in question: are ruptures plausible? -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 – Lists of countries and FAO-SUA product lines used in Agribiom – Comparison of observed and simulated animal food Productions -- Appendix 2 – Review of the world food economy -- Appendix 3 – Food availability and loss of food calories in the Agrimonde GO scenario – Definition of loss and waste of food calories -- Appendix 4 – Land areas in Agrimonde GO -- Appendix 5 – Main quantitative assumptions of Agrimonde scenarios – Process for attaining a resource-use balance -- Appendix 6 – Assumptions on the qualitative dimensions of the Agrimonde scenarios -- References -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- List of authors.
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Agroecological Crop Protection [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean-Philippe Deguine, Caroline Gloanec, Philippe Laurent, Alain Ratnadass, Jean-Noël Aubertot
Agroecological Crop Protection [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean-Philippe Deguine, Caroline Gloanec, Philippe Laurent, Alain Ratnadass, Jean-Noël Aubertot
Edizione [1st ed. 2017.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (XXVIII, 249 p. 90 illus., 89 illus. in color.)
Disciplina 630
Soggetto topico Agriculture
Applied ecology
Biodiversity
Ecosystems
Entomology
Applied Ecology
ISBN 94-024-1185-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Foreword -- Preamble -- Preface -- Thanks -- Introduction -- 1. APPLYING AGROECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES TO CROP PROTECTION -- Outlines of Agroecology -- Agroecology, a 21st century agricultural revolution? -- Agroecology seen by an evolutionist ecologist -- Can agronomy be merged into agroecology? -- Agroecology and frames of reference: an epistemological reading -- Evolution of crop protection -- A critical look through the eyes of a science historian of the development of crop protection -- Moving from integrated pest management to agroecological crop protection -- Agroecological crop protection: at the interface between agroecology, crop protection and biodiversity management -- Conclusion -- 2. APPLICATION TO VEGETABLE CROPS: THE GAMOUR EXPERIENCE -- 3. APPLICATION IN FRUIT CROPS: THE BIOPHYTO EXPERIENCE -- 4. FEEDBACK AND COMMON APPROACHES TO AGROECOLOGICAL CROP PROTECTION: FURTHER EXAMPLES -- Introduction -- Other experiences in vegetable farming -- Agroecological practices to manage soil-borne pathogens in greenhouse vegetable crops in France -- Agroecological management of bacterial wilt of tomato in Martinique -- Other Experiments in Fruit Arboriculture -- Managing plant ground cover to control pests in apple orchards in France -- Agroecological Management of Mango Fruit Flies in Benin -- Experiences with other crops -- Agroecological management of banana pests in export crops in the Dominican Republic -- Agroecological management of insect pests of rainfed rice in Madagascar -- Approach to Biodiversity at the Agroecosystem Level. -Initiatives for Functional Biodiversity in Viticulture and Natural Pest Regulation Services -- Semi-natural habitats for functional biodiversity in France -- Design and Multicriteria Evaluation of Innovative Cropping Systems -- Rés0Pest: An experimental network of pesticide-free cropping systems -- Conclusion -- 5. AGROECOLOGICAL TRANSITION KEYS -- Introduction -- Choosing and adapting methods -- A synoptic view of the methods available to achieve ACP -- Basic pest control techniques -- Diagnoses in agricultural plots -- Experiments on cropping systems -- Modeling, an essential tool for ACP -- Creating and utilizing knowledge -- Functional Soil and Aerial Biodiversity -- Effects of agricultural practices on biotic stresses -- Organic farming as a prototype for the development of ACP -- Landscape ecology, approximation between agronomy and ecology -- Implementing and assessing practices -- Experimental systems and co-design -- Multi-criteria evaluation -- Mediation tools: support for implementation of ACP -- Tracking trajectories -- Training and knowledge transfer -- Teaching ACP -- New training methods: self-training and on-line learning -- Promotion and transfer through vocational training: CUQP ACP -- Concerted public strategies for the support and promotion of agroecology: the approach in Reunion -- The key to agroecological transition: farmers' testimonies -- Agroecology as seen by a farmer in Vendée -- Applied agroecology in a young tropical orchard -- Conclusion -- General conclusion: ACP, a Crop Protection policy for the Future -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Bibliography -- List of authors.
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Agroecology [[electronic resource] /] / by Konrad Martin, Joachim Sauerborn
Agroecology [[electronic resource] /] / by Konrad Martin, Joachim Sauerborn
Autore Martin Konrad
Edizione [1st ed. 2013.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (338 p.)
Disciplina 577.55
Soggetto topico Agriculture
Ecology 
Ecosystems
Landscape ecology
Geography
Geobiology
Ecology
Landscape Ecology
Geography, general
Biogeosciences
ISBN 94-007-5917-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Introduction -- 2. Origin and development of agriculture -- 3. Patterns and processes in ecosystems -- 4. Crops and their environment -- 5. Management of unwanted organisms -- 6. Production and management of livestock resources -- 7. Climate zones and land use -- 8. Agroecological aspects of global change.
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Martin Konrad  
Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
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