Resilience in Agriculture through Crop Diversification: Adaptive Management for Environmental Change

BioScience, Journal Year: 2011, Volume and Issue: 61(3), P. 183 - 193

Published: March 1, 2011

Recognition that climate change could have negative consequences for agricultural production has generated a desire to build resilience into systems. One rational and cost-effective method may be the implementation of increased crop diversification. Crop diversification can improve in variety ways: by engendering greater ability suppress pest outbreaks dampen pathogen transmission, which worsen under future scenarios, as well buffering from effects variability extreme events. Such benefits point toward obvious value adopting resilience, yet adoption been slow. Economic incentives encouraging select few crops, push biotechnology strategies, belief monocultures are more productive than diversified systems hindrances promoting this strategy. However, implemented forms at scales, allowing farmers choose strategy both increases provides economic benefits.

Language: Английский

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Landscape sustainability science: ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes

Landscape Ecology, Journal Year: 2013, Volume and Issue: 28(6), P. 999 - 1023

Published: April 30, 2013

Language: Английский

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Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience: Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object

Ecology and Society, Journal Year: 2007, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2007

This article reviews the variety of definitions proposed for "resilience" within sustainability science and suggests a typology according to specific degree normativity.There is tension between original descriptive concept resilience first defined in ecological more recent, vague, malleable notion used as an approach or boundary object by different scientific disciplines.Even though increased conceptual vagueness can be valuable foster communication across disciplines practice, both clarity practical relevance are critically danger.The fundamental question what structure we want have.This argues that clearly specified, critical providing counterbalance use vague object.A clear provides basis operationalization application science.

Language: Английский

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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2015, Volume and Issue: 30(11), P. 673 - 684

Published: Oct. 4, 2015

Language: Английский

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Socio‐hydrology: A new science of people and water

Hydrological Processes, Journal Year: 2011, Volume and Issue: 26(8), P. 1270 - 1276

Published: Dec. 12, 2011

Language: Английский

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