From csas001@unlvm.unl.edu Fri Oct 17 15:29:49 1997 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:40:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Pam Murray To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Reviews of Sustainable Ag Literature [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems Publishes Book that Reviews Sustainable Ag Literature "Future Horizons: Recent Literature in Sustainable Agriculture" (September 1997) is a compendium of reviews of 100 recent books and other resource materials. This spiral-bound book provides a current overview of our state of the art and recent thinking in this rapidly growing field. There are reviews about the present condition of planet Earth, as related to food and natural resources, also about both historical and current lessons in sustainability. The often-repeated question of how to define sustainability and how it relates to agroecology are explored. Economic and social dimensions of sustainable systems, and lessons from farmers and others are reviewed. Other chapters include soil quality and health, living with crop pests, and the importance of ecology and natural systems. There is a diverse chapter on different ways of knowing and learning, with reviews of texts, reference works, and even novels. Among the authors whose works are reviewed are David Orr, Wes Jackson, Herman Daly and John Cobb, Paul Hawken, Steve Gliessman, Miguel Altieri, Fred Kirschenmann, Richard Thompson, Joel Salatin, and Al Gore ^× plus more than 80 others. Several of the reviews are reprinted with permission from journals, but most are the work of some 30 people who are actively working in this arena and volunteered for the task. Modeled after the highly successful book "In Praise of Nature" by Stephanie Mills (also reviewed), this project was developed under the SARE grant "Increasing Trainer Literacy in Sustainable Agriculture," with a primary audience of Extension educators and NRCS specialists. It's also a valuable resource for the student who needs a quick appreciation of what is available in the library, for the agency person who needs to get up to speed on a completely new field, or to the farmer considering a conversion to more sustainable systems. Edited by Gabriel Hegyes and Charles Francis, the book is available for $10 (includes shipping) from the Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, PO Box 830949, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0949, 402-472-2056. Make checks payable to University of Nebraska, federal ID # 47-0491233. By the end of the year the CSAS plans to have the reviews on its Web page: http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/csas. *********************** Pam Murray, Coordinator Center for Grassland Studies and Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems PO Box 830949 University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68583-0949 phone: 402-472-9383 fax: 402-472-4104 e-mail: csas001@unlvm.unl.edu To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "unsubscribe sanet-mg". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest".