Seeds of sustainability
Subtitle: lessons from the birthplace of the Green Revolution
By: edited by Pamela A. Matson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781597265225; 9781597265256
Subjects: Sustainability; Sustainable agriculture; Green Revolution; Case studies
Other titles: Lessons from the birthplace of the Green Revolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why the Yaqui Valley? An introduction / Pamela Matson and Walter Falcon; title: A brief history of the Yaqui Valley / Ashley Dean; title: Looking for "win-wins" in intensive agriculture / Pamela Matson, Rosamond Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio; title: Ecosystems and land use change in the Yaqui Valley: does agricultural intensification "spare land for nature"? / Pamela Matson and Peter Jewett; title: Linking knowledge with action for sustainable development: A case study of change and effectiveness / Ellen McCullough and Pamela Matson; title: Exploring vulnerability in the Yaqui Valley human-environment system / Pamela Matson, Amy Luers, and Ellen McCullough; title: From wheat to waves and back again: connections between the Yaqui Valley and the Gulf of California / Michael Beman and Amy Luers; title: The Yaqui Valley's agricultural transition to a more open economy / Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon; title: Agricultural research and management at the field scale / Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio and David Lobell; title: Nitrogen in the Yaqui Valley: sources, transfers, and consequences / Toby Ahrens ... [et al.]; title: Water resources management in the Yaqui Valley / Gerrit Schoups ... [et al.]; title: Lessons learned / Pamela Matson, Rosamond Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio.