peri-urban area development process decreases agricultural land use because of significant trend of city sprawl. in the agricultural sector, goals for sustainability generally include maintenance or enhancement of the natural environment, meeting of human needs for food, economic viability, and social welfare. as agriculture has enormous environmental impacts on peri-urban regions, it is necess...

in order to achieve sustainable development, nowadays, many countries have been paying attention to bottom-up planning and planning for smallest urban :union:s (residential communities). this paper aims to promote sustainability level of sarab and sajjad residential communities and provide appropriate solutions for promoting quality of these communities. the results related to indicators of the...

Technology-focused literature on socio-technical transitions shares some of the complex systems sensibilities of social-ecological systems research. We contend that the sharing of lessons between these areas of study must attend particularly to the common governance challenges that confront both approaches. Here, we focus on critical experience arising from reactions to a transition management ...

Coffee agroecosystems are critical to the success of conservation efforts in Latin America because of their ecological and economic importance. Coffee certification programs may offer one way to protect biodiversity and maintain farmer livelihoods. Established coffee certification programs fall into three distinct, but not mutually exclusive categories: organic, fair trade, and shade. The resul...

The objective of this paper is to examine the sustainability of rangeland agriculture (i.e., managed grazing) on a world-wide basis, with a focus on North America. Sustainability is addressed on three fronts: 1) ecological, 2) economic, and 3) social acceptance. Based on previous and on-going research, we suggest that employment of science-based rangeland grazing management strategies and tacti...

Since Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (IAHS) were launched by the FAO to protect sustainable traditional agricultural systems around world, their conservation has become a new difficult issue under context of urbanization. Farmers in IAHS sites giving up small-scale farming due low economic benefit and high labor intensity are considered as main cause hindering effective these heritages...

Leachate reuse is a helpful tool that contributes to the sustainability of agricultural systems, but it requires previous disinfection. Hydrogen peroxide can be found among disinfectants frequently applied in ecological production systems. Moreover, improve oxygenation root system. The objective this work was study its effect on C. fruticosa plants fertigated with leachates. A split-plot design...