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Title Seeds of sustainability [electronic resource] : lessons from the birthplace of the Green Revolution / edited by Pamela A. Matson.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xviii, 292 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Why the Yaqui Valley? An introduction / Pamela Matson and Walter Falcon -- A brief history of the Yaqui Valley / Ashley Dean -- Looking for "win-wins" in intensive agriculture / Pamela Matson, Rosamond Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio -- Ecosystems and land use change in the Yaqui Valley: does agricultural intensification "spare land for nature"? / Pamela Matson and Peter Jewett -- Linking knowledge with action for sustainable development: A case study of change and effectiveness / Ellen McCullough and Pamela Matson -- Exploring vulnerability in the Yaqui Valley human-environment system / Pamela Matson, Amy Luers, and Ellen McCullough -- From wheat to waves and back again: connections between the Yaqui Valley and the Gulf of California / Michael Beman and Amy Luers -- The Yaqui Valley's agricultural transition to a more open economy / Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon -- Agricultural research and management at the field scale / Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio and David Lobell -- Nitrogen in the Yaqui Valley: sources, transfers, and consequences / Toby Ahrens ... [et al.] -- Water resources management in the Yaqui Valley / Gerrit Schoups ... [et al.] -- Lessons learned / Pamela Matson, Rosamond Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Sustainable agriculture -- Mexico -- Yaqui River Valley -- Case studies.
Sustainability -- Mexico -- Yaqui River Valley -- Case studies.
Green Revolution -- Mexico -- Yaqui River Valley -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Matson, P. A. (Pamela A.)
ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Lessons from the birthplace of the Green Revolution
ISBN 9781597265225 (cloth : alk. paper)
1597265225 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781597265256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
159726525X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781610911771 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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