Citation: Iiyama M, Neufeldt H, Njenga M, Derero A, Ndegwa GM, Mukuralinda A, Dobie P, Jamnadass R and Mowo J (2017) Conceptual Analysis: The Charcoal-Agriculture Nexus to Understand the Socio-Ecological Contexts Underlying Varied Sustainability Outcomes in African Landscapes. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:31. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00031 Conceptual Analysis: The Charcoal-Agriculture Nexus to Underst...

Environmental law plays a key role in shaping policy for sustainability of social-ecological systems. In particular, the types of legal instruments, institutions, and the response of law to the inherent variability in social-ecological systems are critical. Sustainability likely must occur via the institutions we have in place, combined with alterations in policy and regulation within the conte...

the main purpose of this paper is analyzing sustainability condition for potato cultivation in bahar-hamedan plain. potato farmers population in this plain is 2054 individuals. we obtained sample size, which are 162 by using cochrane’s formula. for increasing accuracy 172 samples fill out the questionnaires. data analyzed by spss software. results showed that sustainability level was low or ver...

objective: today, addressing the issue of sustainability especially in agriculture has received more attention. sustainability in the systems of canola cultivation depends on many factors like ecological, social and economic dimensions and understanding these factors can result in formulation of policies and strategies for sustainable agricultural development. methods: 8961 canola farmers of qa...

This study is a survey research. The population of the study was all specialists who have enough data about ways of sustainability rice cultivars that they were identified and studied through Non-probability sampling (purposeful and snowball). To determine the validity of the questionnaire, face and content validity was used, and, to assess the reliability, inconsistency coefficient was used. I...

fishing as one of the most important agricultural sectors has an important role in providing the protein for people. pareh cooperatives despite of having a long history, are faced with problems such as loss of fishing catch compare with previous years, the high cost of purchasing tools and equipments to catch and transportation and location of fishing become unfavorable due to natural and human...

The theoretical framework andmethodology of a water ecological–economic system (WEES) assessment based on emergy synthesis are proposed in this paper. Through calculating ecological and economic inputs and outputs within and outside the complex system, this paper discusses the system’s economic situation, water resources development and system sustainability based on a series of emergy indicato...

This paper presents a framework for the development of socio-ecological systems towards enhanced sustainability. Emphasis is given to the dynamic properties of complex, adaptive social-ecological systems, their structure and to the fundamental role of agriculture. The tangible components that meet the needs of specific projects executed in Kenya and Ethiopia encompass project objectives, innova...

Introduction.........................................................................................................50 Organic farming and the challenge of sustainability ...........................................51 Political ecology as one approach to globalisation and sustainable development....53 Growth without borders ..........................................................................