Ethics and Sustainable Agriculture: Bridging the Ecological Gaps

By Fabio Caporali

​Preface
1. Introduction
2. Ethics structure and goals
3. The emergence of ecological awareness
4. Development of ecological awareness4.1 The emergence of ecosystem theory4.1.1 The ecosystem concept 4.2 The establishment of the ecosystem theory4.2.1 Research and education4.2.2 International policy and ecological economics4.3 Ethics of sustainable development4.3.1 Natural capital, ecosystem services and ecological footprint4.3.2 The role of education
5. Agriculture and sustainable development5.1 Agroecosystem epistemology and ontology5.1.1 Energetics5.1.2 Matter cycling5.1.3 Biodiversity
6. Sustainable agriculture6.1 Site-specificity and tradition6.1.1 Domestication and adaptation6.1.2 Terracing for ecosystem domestication6.2 Sustainable agriculture as a turning point of the human predicament6.3 Agroecology as a transdisciplinary field of cooperation6.4 Ecological intensification principles and practices6.4.1 Ecological intensification through planned biodiversity6.4.2 Ecological intensification: the role of hedgerows6.4.3 Valuing the performances of agroecosystem ecological intensification6.5 Institutional patterns of agriculture ecological intensification in Europe: the role of Universities6.5.1 Indicators of ecological intensification in contrasting farming systems6.5.2 Ecological intensification in animal husbandry6.5.3 Ecological intensification of human diet6.6 Ecological intensification in theology of creation and food ethics
7. Conclusions
References Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030766853
• ISBN13: 9783030766856
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"