Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective /

This book synthesizes knowledge from several fields that are crucial to sustainable rural development: the physical environment, biological and agricultural production, rural sociology and economics. It takes a systems perspective incorporating systems analysis, landscape analysis and soil, water, a...

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Main Author: Golley, Frank B.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bellot, Juan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 1999.
Series:Springer series on environmental management.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book synthesizes knowledge from several fields that are crucial to sustainable rural development: the physical environment, biological and agricultural production, rural sociology and economics. It takes a systems perspective incorporating systems analysis, landscape analysis and soil, water, and land planning. Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective is directed toward graduate students and professionals, providing a source of information and concepts for those concerned with land and water policies and practice. It presents an integrated approach using practical and applicable models and methods and takes a middle position between an elementary conceptual approach to land and water management and a highly mathematically advanced treatise based exclusively on system modeling. The book is based on almost twenty years of experience in teaching a course on rural planning and the environment at the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies in Zaragoza, Spain. The authors are specialists from universities, research institutions and companies in Europe and North America.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 377 pages 131 illustrations)
ISBN:9781461214489 (electronic bk.)
1461214483 (electronic bk.)