Ethics and Sustainable Agriculture

Preface.- Introduction.- Ethics structure and goals.- The emergence of ecological awareness.- Development of ecological awareness.- The emergence of ecosystem theory.- The ecosystem concept.- The establishment of the ecosystem theory.- Research and education.- International policy and ecological economics.- Ethics of sustainable development.- Natural capital, ecosystem services and ecological footprint.- The role of education.- Agriculture and sustainable development.- Agroecosystem epistemology and ontology.- Energetics.- Matter cycling.- Biodiversity.- Sustainable agriculture.- Site-specificity and tradition.- Domestication and adaptation.- Terracing for ecosystem domestication.- Sustainable agriculture as a turning point of the human predicament.- Agroecology as a transdisciplinary field of cooperation.- Ecological intensification principles and practices.- Ecological intensification through planned biodiversity.- Ecological intensification: the role of hedgerows.- Valuing the performances of agroecosystem ecological intensification.- Institutional patterns of agriculture ecological intensification in Europe: the role of Universities.- Indicators of ecological intensification in contrasting farming systems.- Ecological intensification in animal husbandry.- Ecological intensification of human diet.- Ecological intensification in theology of creation and food ethics.- Conclusions.- References.- Index.

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• A agricultura sustentável
• Ciência ecológica, a biosfera
• Bioética
• Economia ambiental

Ethics;Sustainable Agriculture;Agroecology;Ecolinguistics;Ecotheology