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The architecture of ecology: Systems design for sustainable agricultural landscapes
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Kinkaid, Eden
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366983104
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2013, Bachelor of Science (BS), Ohio University, Environmental and Plant Biology.
Abstract
Agricultural sustainability will prove to be a significant challenge in the coming decades. The complexity of the problem of agricultural sustainability makes the creation of policy and design solutions difficult. Using Complex Adaptive Systems theory, I propose a method for understanding this complexity and multi-dimensionality through the construction of a theoretical model of agriculture. Using this model, I explore possible futures of the agricultural system through scenario building. I then use this model and these future scenarios to derive implications for sustainable agricultural design.
Committee
Ted Bernard (Advisor)
Subject Headings
Agriculture
;
Design
;
Sustainability
Keywords
sustainability
;
complex adaptive systems
;
Panarchy
;
agriculture
;
sustainable agriculture
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Kinkaid, E. (2013).
The architecture of ecology: Systems design for sustainable agricultural landscapes
[Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366983104
APA Style (7th edition)
Kinkaid, Eden.
The architecture of ecology: Systems design for sustainable agricultural landscapes.
2013. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366983104.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Kinkaid, Eden. "The architecture of ecology: Systems design for sustainable agricultural landscapes." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366983104
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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