New Directions for Agriculture and Agricultural Research: Neglected Dimensions and Emerging AlternativesKenneth A. Dahlberg Rowman & Littlefield, 1986 - 436 sider In this book, highly qualified authors have developed a foundation for addressing these questions, and others, by making the ethical, value, and goal choices of traditional and innovative approaches more explicit; by evaluating, in particular, the social, health, resource, and environmental impacts of intensive farming; and by discussing how these effects are comprehended-or not comprehended-in national and global contexts. |
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Introduction Changing Contexts and Goals and the Need for New Evaluative Approaches | 1 |
On Evaluating Agricultural Research | 31 |
Exquisite Decisions in a Global Village | 42 |
American Agriculture and the World Community | 65 |
Historical Forces That Have Shaped World Agriculture A Structural Perspective | 83 |
Publicly Sponsored Agricultural Research in the United States from an Historical Perspective | 107 |
The Context and Implications of the National Agricultural Research Extension and Teaching Act of 1977 | 132 |
Historical Evolution of the State Agricultural Experiment Station System | 147 |
Beyond Conventional Economics An Examination of the Values Implicit in the Neoclassical Economic Paradigm as Applied to the Evaluation of Agr... | 221 |
Energy and Other Natural Resources Used by Agriculture and Society | 259 |
Alternative Agriculture | 291 |
Biotechnology and Agricultural Research Policy Emergent Issues | 312 |
Value and Ethical Dimensions of Alternative Agricultural Approaches In Quest of a Regenerative and Just Agriculture | 348 |
Research on Farmer Behavior and Social Organization | 367 |
New Directions for Agricultural Research Summary and Conclusions | 403 |
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The Health Effects of Agricultural Production | 165 |
Review and Evaluation of Social Externalities | 199 |
Contributors | 434 |
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