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Evaluating the sustainability of complex socio-environmental systems. the MESMIS framework
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Key methodological issues in the selection, transformation and aggregation of economic, environmental and social indicators for sustainability analysis are examined.About:
This article is published in Ecological Indicators.The article was published on 2002-11-01. It has received 329 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability & Sustainable development.read more
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Facing up to the paradigm of ecological intensification in agronomy: Revisiting methods, concepts and knowledge
Thierry Doré,David Makowski,Eric Malézieux,Nathalie G. Munier-Jolain,Marc Tchamitchian,Pablo Tittonell +5 more
TL;DR: Five additional avenues that agronomic research could follow to strengthen the ecological intensification of current farming systems are proposed, assuming that progress in plant sciences over the last two decades provides new insight of potential use to agronomists.
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SAFE--A hierarchical framework for assessing the sustainability of agricultural systems
N. Van Cauwenbergh,Katarzyna Biala,Charles Bielders,Véronique Brouckaert,L. Franchois,V. Garcia Cidad,Martin Hermy,Erik Mathijs,Bart Muys,J. Reijnders,Xavier Sauvenier,Jan Valckx,Marnik Vanclooster,B. Van der Veken,Erwin Wauters,Alain Peeters +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a consistent and comprehensive framework of principles, criteria and indicators for sustainability assessment of agricultural systems, referred to as the Sustainability Assessment of Fanning and the Environment (SAFE) framework.
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Considering the normative, systemic and procedural dimensions in indicator-based sustainability assessments in agriculture
Claudia R. Binder,Claudia R. Binder,Giuseppe Feola,Julia K. Steinberger,Julia K. Steinberger +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for evaluating sustainability assessment methods by separately analyzing their normative, systemic and procedural dimensions as suggested by Wiek and Binder [Wiek, A, Binder, C. 2007].
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Green Agriculture: foundations for biodiverse, resilient and productive agricultural systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a set of thresholds that any agricultural production strategy must meet, beyond which unsustainable trends caused by the farming technologies would lead to tipping-point phenomena, and only those styles of agriculture that meet the established threshold criteria while advancing rural communities towards food, energy and technological sovereignty would be considered viable forms of green agriculture.
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Geographical indications, terroir, and socioeconomic and ecological sustainability: The case of tequila
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the social, economic, and ecological impacts that the agave-tequila industry has had on one community in tequila's region of origin, the town of Amatitan.
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