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The Science of Sustainable Agriculture: Measuring the Immeasurable

Fridays 12:10 - 1 p.m. Plant & Environmental Sciences Building, Room 3001

Discussion Section Readings and Bibliography
 

William Lacy

Lacy, W. 2000. Commercialization of university research brings benefits, raises issues and concerns. California Agriculture 54(4):72-79.

Lacy, W. B. 2001. Generation and commercialization of knowledge: Trends, implications and models for public and private agricultural research and education. In S. Wolfe and D. Zilberman (eds.), Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture. Kluver Academic Press. pp.27-54.

Lacy, W. 1993. Can agricultural colleges meet the needs of sustainable agriculture? American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 8(1):40-45.

Kenneth Cassmann

Tillman, D., Cassman, K.G., Matson, P.A., Naylor, R. and Polasky, S. 2002. Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices. Nature 418:671-677.

Cassman, K.G., Dobermann, A.D., and Walters, D.T. 2002. Agroecosystems, N-Use Efficiency, and N Management. AMBIO 31:132-140.

Cassman, K.G. 2001. Crop science research to assure food security. In Noesberger, J. et al. (eds) Crop Science: Progress and Prospects. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. p. 33-51.

Cassman, K.G. 1999. Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: Yield potential, soil quality, and precision agriculture. Proc. National Acad. Sci. (USA) 96: 5952-5959.

Duvick, D.N. and K.G. Cassman. 1999. Post-green-revolution trends in yield potential of temperate maize in the north-central United States. Crop Sci. 39:1622-1630.

Peng, S., K.G. Cassman, S.S. Virmani, J. Sheehy, and G.S. Khush. 1999. Yield potential trends of tropical rice since the release of IR8 and the challenge of increasing rice yield potential. Crop Sci. 39:1552-1559.

Cassman, K.G., R. Steiner, and A.E. Johnston. 1995. Long-term experiments and productivity indexes to evaluate sustainability of cropping systems. Pages 231-244 in V. Barnett, R. Payne, and R. Steiner (eds) Agricultural Sustainability.

Other related publications.

William Friedland

William Friedland. 1994. The New Globalization: The Case of Fresh Produce, in Alessandro Bonanno et al, (eds.) From Columbus To Conagra: The Globalization Of Agriculture And Food Univ. of Kansas Press, pp. 210-231.

William Friedland and Tim Kappel. 1979. Production Or Perish: Changing The Inequities Of Agricultural Research Priorities. UCSC, Project on Social Impact Assessment and Values.

Also look at California Agricultural Exports available from the Agricultural Issues Center.

Floor Brouwer

Agenda 2000: A Wasted Opportunity? by Philip Lowe and Floor Brouwer

Environmental integration and the CAP. A report to the European Commission by the Institute for European Environmental Policy

Agriculture, Environment, Rural Development: Facts and Figures - A Challenge
for Agriculture
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Simon Bell

Simon Bell and Stephen Morse 1999. Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasureable, Earthscan Publications, London, pp175. Read Chapters 4, 5 and 6 in particular.

Simon Bell 2003. Measuring Sustainability: Learning from Doing, Earthscan Publications, London, Chapter 3 in particular.

Bell, S, and Morse, S. 2001. Breaking through the glass ceiling: Who really cares about Sustainability Indicators? Local Environment Journal. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 291 - 310.

Tom Lyson

Lyson, Thomas A.2002. Advanced agricultural biotechnologies and sustainable agriculture. Trends in Biotechnology 20:193-196.

Lyson, Thomas A. 2000. Moving toward civic agriculture. Choices Third Quarter: 42-45.

Cynthia Rosenzweig

Rosenzweig, C.E., F. Tubiello, R. Goldberg, E. Mills, and J. Bloomfield. 2002. Increased crop damage in the U.S. from excess precipitation under climate change. Global Environmental Change-Human & Policy Dimensions. 12(3):197-202.

Rosenzweig, C., and D. Hillel. 2000. Soils and global climate change: Challenges and opportunities. Soil Sci. 165: 47-56.

Rosenzweig, C. 2000. Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture. In A Spectrum of Achievement in Agronomy: Women Fellows of the Tri-Societies. ASA Special Pub. 62, pp. 73-88. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.

Richard Howitt
[Presentation Summary]

Aldy, J.E., J. Hrubovcak, and U. Vasavada. 1998. The Role of Technology in Sustaining Agriculture and the Environment. Ecological Economics 26(1):81-96.

Gretton, P. and U. Salma. 1997. Land Degradation: Links to Agriculture Output and Profitability. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 41(2):209-225.

Burt, O.R. 1981. Farm Level Economics of Soil Conservation in the Palouse Area of the Northwest. American Agricultural Economics Association 63(1):84-92.

Kim, K., B.L. Barham, and I. Coxhead. 2001. Measuring Soil Quality Dynamics-- A Role for Economists, and Implications for Economic Analysis. Agricultural Economics 25(1):13-26.

Glenn Davis Stone

Both Sides Now: Fallacies in the Genetic-Modification Wars, Implications for Developing Countries, and Anthropological Perspectives

Theory of the Square Chicken: Advances in Agricultural Intensification Theory

 


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