Conventional conservation and resource management strategies are, on their own, becoming less viable in the face of climate change and associated impacts. Assisted regional ecosystem adaptation is emerging as an option to preserve and maintain ecosystem integrity and functionality. However,...

"Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? This book examines numerous empirical examples of policy in action to identify principles for the successful application of market-based policy instruments. Where...

The role of private food standards in agriculture is increasingly raising questions of legitimacy, particularly in light of the impacts such standards may have on food producers. While much work has been carried out at a macro policy level for developing countries, there have been relatively few...

For almost two decades, community Landcare groups and supporting institutional bodies were the focus of agri-environmental policy in Australia. Despite the successes of Landcare, the programme faces challenges securing funding in an era of agri-environmental policy that preferences economic...

"Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural modernisation. This book argues that neither position does justice to the range of strategies that...

Agriculture, biodiversity and markets / Stewart Lockie and David Carpenter -- The ecological role and enhancement of biodiversity in agroecosystems / Miguel Altieri and Paul Roge -- The human ecology of agrobiodiversity / David Dumaresq, David Carpenter and Stewart Lockie -- Multilateral and...

With “consumer demand” credited with driving major changes in the food industry related to food quality, safety, environmental, and social concerns, the contemporary politics of food has become characterized by a variety of attempts to redefine food consumption as an expression of...

Extensive forms of resource use are rarely subject to detailed environmental and social assessment. This paper outlines a potential methodology for assessment of the social impacts of extensive resource use activities based on the Pressure-State-Impact-Response (PSIR) model of integrated...