Ethics and Sustainable Agriculture: Bridging the Ecological Gaps

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Agriculture as if Ethics Mattered
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Chapter 2: Ethics Structure and Goals
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Chapter 3: The Emergence of Ecological Awareness
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Chapter 4: Development of Ecological Awareness
	4.1 The Ecosystem Theory
		4.1.1 The Ecosystem Concept as a Meaningful Integrative Level in the Hierarchical Organisation of Reality
	4.2 The Establishment of the Ecosystem Theory
		4.2.1 Research and Education
		4.2.2 International Policy and Ecological Economics
	4.3 The Ethics of Sustainable Development
		4.3.1 Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services and Ecological Footprint
		4.3.2 The Role of Education
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Chapter 5: Agriculture, Ethics, and Sustainable Development
	5.1 Agroecosystem Epistemology and Ontology
		5.1.1 Energetics
		5.1.2 Matter Cycling
		5.1.3 Biodiversity
		5.1.4 Information
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Chapter 6: Sustainable Agriculture Through Ecological Intensification
	6.1 Site-Specificity and Tradition
		6.1.1 Domestication and Adaptation
		6.1.2 Contrasting Dismantling Tendency
		6.1.3 Terracing for Ecosystem Domestication
	6.2 Sustainable Agriculture as a Turning Point of the Human Predicament
	6.3 Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary Field of Cooperation
	6.4 Ecological Intensification Principles and Practices
		6.4.1 Ecological Intensification through Crop Rotation, Intercropping and Multiple Cropping
		6.4.2 Ecological Intensification: The Role of Hedgerows
		6.4.3 Valuing the Performances of Agroecosystem Ecological Intensification
	6.5 Institutional Patterns of Ecological Intensification of Agriculture in Europe: The Role of Universities
		6.5.1 Agricultural Education and Research
		6.5.2 Indicators of Ecological Intensification in Contrasting Farming Systems
		6.5.3 Ecological Intensification in Animal Husbandry
		6.5.4 Ecological Intensification of Human Diet
	6.6 Ecological Intensification in Theology of Creation and Food Ethics
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Chapter 7: Conclusions: A New Ecological Ethic for Grounding Sustainability in Agriculture and Society
Afterword