Agroecology as a Science of Integration for Sustainability in Agriculture

A knowledge contribution is provided in order to understand agroecology as both a scientific discipline and a philosophical paradigm for promoting sustainability in agriculture. The peculiar character of agroecology as an applied science based on the systems paradigm is explored in the fields of research and tuition. As an organisational capability of connecting different hierarchical levels in accordance with the goal of sustainability, integration is shown as an emergent property of the evolution of agriculture as a human activity system.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Italian Journal of Agronomy

• Publication date

  2007-06-30

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Political Science, Philosophy, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4081/IJA.2007.73
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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