Ecological Journals

I am stuck on my homework and need help. Can anyone give me some starting point ideas?
A recent study published in the journal Science indicated that sustainable agricultural is economically viable. However, the resulting impact on agricultural production is a reduction in yields of from 5% to 30%, depending on the crop.
What are the ecological, economic and social consequences in the short run and long run of converting, or not converting, agriculture to sustainable practices?
Well, think about what happens if the farmers run out of land to use. They can no longer grow crops, thus hurting the US domestic market by forcing the government to import more of the crops from other countries.
TEDxWaterloo – Madhur Anand – 2/25/10
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Bill Moyers Journal: On the Ground in Pakistan / Developing Ecological Intelligence / Twitter or Not? $14.95 In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers is joined by historian Juan Cole and GlobalPost journalist Shahan Mufti to examine how America’s increasingly strained relationship with Pakistan will impact the prospects for peace, human rights, and democracy in that war-torn region. Moyers then speaks with Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence, about building awareness of how consumer prod… |
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Bill Moyers Journal: 21st-Century Populism / Writer Barry Lopez $15.95 The final edition of the Journal begins by examining the new populism: after a report on Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, proud and vocal inheritors of America’s populist spirit, Bill Moyers sits down with populist agitator Jim Hightower to look at the history and legacy of people’s movements and to discuss how ordinary people can reclaim their political power. Then, Moyers is joined by th… |
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Bill Moyers Journal: On the Ground in Pakistan / Developing Ecological Intelligence $14.95 In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers is joined by historian Juan Cole and GlobalPost journalist Shahan Mufti to examine how America’s increasingly strained relationship with Pakistan will impact the prospects for peace, human rights, and democracy in that war-torn region. Moyers then speaks with Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence, about building awareness of how consumer prod… |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl $2.94 The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan’s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desp… |
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Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development $21.14 Named one of a hundred “visionaries who could change your life” by the Utne Reader, Herman Daly has probably been the most prominent advocate of the need for a change in economic thinking in response to environmental crisis. An iconoclast economis t who has worked as a renegade insider at the World Bank in recent years, Daly has argued for overturning some basic economic assumptions. He has won a … |
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Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems $51.07 News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water purification. And yet diseases sometimes serve to maintain the structure and function of the ecosys… |
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