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The Environmental Imperative: Ecosocial Concerns for Australian (fwd)
>The Environmental Imperative: Ecosocial Concerns for Australian
>Agriculture by Frank Vanclay and Geoffrey Lawrence
>published by Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton
>is now published and available.
>
>Copies are available from
>the Centre for Rural Social Research.
>in Australia and overseas (surface)
>$25 includes post and packaging
>
>$5 extra for airmail to overseas.
>(see address in my signature file)
>
>Order form is also available on my home page.
>
>
>Description (from back cover)
>
>While many excellent overseas publications exist, there are few
>Australian books which seek to examine, from a sociological
>perspective, the relationship between the continuing
>degradation of the environment and the social relations of production
>in agriculture. This book provides an up-to-date text for students
>in rural sociology and environmental sociology units in Australian
>universities. We also hope that it will help to develop a
>more critical, sociological approach to the understanding of the
>social aspects of land degradation, and will stimulate discussion
>about how to develop a more environmentally sustainable agriculture
>in Australia.
>
>The book carries endorsements by
>Prof Fred Buttel (USA)
>Prof Neils Roling (Netherlands)
>and Andrew Campbell
>former National Landcare Faciltator (Australia).
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>Contents
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>INTRODUCTION: Agro-Ecological Concerns in Australian Agriculture
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>PART A: Political Economy Perspectives on Australian Agriculture
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>Chapter 1: The Restructuring of Agriculture:
> Environmental and Social Implications
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>Chapter 2: Environmental Degradation in the Semi-Periphery:
> Problems in the Murray-Darling Basin
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>Chapter 3: The Search for New Technologies:
> Is Biotechnology the Answer to Environmental Degradation?
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>Chapter 4: Farmers and Scientists: What Will the Future Bring?
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>PART B: Agricultural Extension: The Key to Sustainability?
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>Chapter 5: Adoption of Environmental Management Practices:
> Farmers' Attitudes, Knowledge and Behaviour
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>Chapter 6: Farmer Rationality and the so-called Barriers to Adoption
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>Chapter 7: Agricultural Extension: Failures and Virtues
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>Chapter 8: Toward a Sociology of Contemporary Agricultural Extension
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>Chapter 9: Conclusion:
> The Environmental and Social Imperative for Australian Agriculture
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>REFERENCES
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>INDEX
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>Dr Frank Vanclay
>Centre for Rural Social Research
>Charles Sturt University
>Locked Bag 678
>Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
>AUSTRALIA
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Graduate Student
Department of Education
Kennedy Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, Ny 14853
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