Explores alternative ways to study agricultural sustainability, applying complex systems theory to actual cases. This book recognizes the changing dynamics of the multiple processes and cross-relations within an environment, and proposes an analysis of agroecosystems than that which can be provided [...]
For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this "perpetual motion" of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of [...]