Carl F Jordan: 2 books
An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
Energy Use Efficiency in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of farming suggests that agriculture will...
Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management
A Critque of the Method Based on Five Years' Experience in the Transamozonica Region of Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. The...