Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture Through Social Networks

by Keith Douglas Warner and Keith Douglass Warner

Book Overview

American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-source water pollution--runoffs of pesticides, nutrients, and sediments into streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. In Agroecology in Action , Keith Douglass Warner describes agroecology, an emerging scientific response to agriculture's environmental crises, and offers detailed case...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262731800
• ISBN13: 9780262731805
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher