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Issues In agroecology integrates agriculture, ecology, sociology, anthropology, environmental sciences,ethics, economics, rural development, sustainability, policy and education. The series approaches this complex panaorama of topics by pressenting authoritative, comprehensive, and analytical reviews from leading scientists in all areas of agroecology worldwide. Authors are invited and represent a collaborative mix to provide strong summaries and scholarly advances that serve as foundations for discussion leading to novel routes of research activity, application of management methodologies, and education and outreach programs. Each review is a concise and up-to-date synthesis of the rapidly growing quantity of scientific information within this higly interdisciplinary field. The autors for each review assess the present status of the knowledge as to whether or not it is effectively contributing to increased sustainability. As a part of the assessment, the autors identify inadequacies, errors, ad gaps in knowledge that may be hindering or opposing sustainability objectives. For each review, the autors altimately discuss what might be needed to bring work and programs onto a better track towards achieving sustainability. Such informed assessments of the routes to realize future potential go beyond the individual farm to include landscapes, communities, and biogeographic regions by emphasizing their unique agricultural and ecological values, and their biological, societal, and cultural components and processes. As a result of these efforts, this series is an essantial part of the scientific method and a necessity for researchers, teachers, students, and field professionnals when dealing with increasing global environmental and socioeconomic change. Issues in agreocology is a highly citable series that is guaranteed to enlighten research teams, technology users, educators, students, and a general academic audience on the status and advances og agroecology worlwide.
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