Sustainable Farmland Management: Transdisciplinary Approaches
It is widelyrecognizedthat the idea of sustainabilityhas diverse political andcultural expressions. Competingandevencontradictoryaccounts of society–nature relations are frequently marshalled together under its guise. Rendering this category stable in its meaningseemsat timesaproblematicpreoccupa...
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| Tóm tắt: | It is widelyrecognizedthat the idea of sustainabilityhas diverse political andcultural
expressions. Competingandevencontradictoryaccounts of society–nature relations are
frequently marshalled together under its guise. Rendering this category stable in its
meaningseemsat timesaproblematicpreoccupation, incompatible withhowsustainability
functionswithinandacrossdifferentarenasofpolicydiscourse. Indeed, whilethecurrency
andlegitimacyofsustainabilityoftenturnsonthevexedissueofconceptual andpractical
‘prescription’, it is alsothecasethat theideatravels withremarkable efficiencyprecisely
becauseitallowssocietyto projectandsecurethefutureindifferent ways. Thusthetaskof
criticalinquiryintosustainabilitytendstopointintwoquitedifferentdirections. Ontheone
handit seeksto ironout diverseandrapidlyproliferatingagendasinto acoherent political
andcultural project with operational targetsandmeasurableends. Ontheother, it seeksto
unpackandinterrogate thedifferent meaningsthat sustainabilityagendasproduceandto
considertheirimplicationsforpractice.
Theprocessunder inspectionin this book- farmlandmanagement - isinstructivein
both theserespects, for, asweshall see, in theoccupancyandexperienceofanostensibly
straightforwardmaterialentitylike‘farmland’, competingexpectations, agendasandvalues
are gathering and responding in different ways to the exigencies and moralities of
sustainability. Drawing on the insights of researchers and practitioners fromdifferent
scientific, social scientific andhumanities backgrounds andreflectinguponboth‘onthe
ground’experienceand‘at thetable’developmentsinthepolicyarena, thisvolumereveals
sustainabilityasakeymotif of emergingagendasfor agriculture, yet oneinvested witha
rangeofmeaningsandpurposes. |
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