Multifunctional Agriculture: A Transition Theory PerspectiveIn a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of 'multifunctionality' has remained under-theorized and poorly linked to the debates in the social sciences. This book analyses the extent to which the proposed transition towards post-productivist agriculture holds up to scientific scrutiny, and proposes a new transition theory. |
Contents
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Part 2 From productivist to postproductivist agriculture and back again? | 79 |
Part 3 Conceptualising multifunctional agricultural transitions | 178 |
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Multifunctional Agriculture: A Transition Theory Perspective Geoffrey Alan Wilson Limited preview - 2007 |
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action and thought actor spaces actors advanced economies agricultural and rural agricultural change agricultural policy agricultural production agricultural systems agricultural transitions argued Atlanticist Chapter characterised complex conceptualisations of multifunctionality context countryside cultural debates decision-making pathways demographic transition model developing countries developing world dimensions discussion diversification economic embedded emphasised environmental sustainability European example farmers farming systems fibre production food and fibre Fordist global globalisation Green Revolution highlighted important increasingly Knickel linked modern multifunctional agriculture multifunctional pathways multifunctional quality multifunctional transitional multifunctionality spectrum non-productivist action notion of multifunctionality organic farming p/pp transition model particular path dependency policy-makers political post-Fordism post-Fordist post-modernism post-productivism Potter and Burney Potter and Tilzey productivism productivist agriculture productivist and non-productivist regional role rural development Section social society stakeholder groups strong multifunctionality pathways strongly multifunctional structuralist structures suggested technological transition temporal linearity theoretical trajectories transition theory transitional pathways transitional processes weak multifunctionality