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Browsing by Author "Buck, L. E."

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  • Building innovation systems for managing complex landscapes
    Buck, L. E.; Scherr, Sara J. (Ankeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2009)
    This chapter provides tools for development practitioners to successfully facilitate social learning situations that can lead to innovation in landscape management. These innovation systems will help stakeholders deal with complex issues, conflicts, and opportunities that arise when managing natural resources in the agricultural landscape. Social learning techniques, community development, and community empowerment strategies are important for watershed management because of the nested landscape and how interrelated the components are in a landscape. This chapter also explains forms of social organization and how communication can be facilitated successfully. Communication and adaptive collaborative management are essential for the sustainability of complex landscapes, so it is important to outline the key roles and effective tools for facilitators in participatory and community activities.
  • Ecoagriculture: A review and assessment of its scientific foundations
    Buck, L. E.; Gavin, T. A.; Lee, D. R.; Uphoff, N. T. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University; SANREM CRSP, University of Georgia, 2004)
    As problems such as the loss of biodiversity, rural poverty and environmental degradation get worse, natural resource management practices need to change to counter this trend. New institutions and practices need to be embraced in order to encourage practices to reverse these trends. There are also competing pressures, such as those to increase agricultural production and to conserve biodiversity, that must be dealt with.