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Book reviews Toward a More Sustainable Agriculture by Raymond P. PoinceloL Westport, CT: AVI Publishing Company, 1986. ISBN 0-87055-518-9. Hardcover. $28.50 David A. Egloff David Egioff is Professor of Biology at Oberlin College, where he teaches ecology and invertebrate biology in the biology department and in the interdisciplinary environmental studies program. His interest in agriculture is both practical and theoretical. He manages small plots of farm and forest lands in Iowa and Minnesota, and teaches an extended module on agriculture inhis Ecology and Environment course. This course enrolls largely non-science majors seeking a better understanding of environmental problems and issues. This is an interesting book that will not alarm advo- a survey of the traditional means of reducing agricultural cates or practitioners of conventional agriculture in the impacts on soil, water, and atmospheric systems. These United States. Raymond Poincelot, a Professor of Biol- chapters are less technically focused than the energy ogy at Fairfield University in Connecticut, argues for chapters, and will be of greatest interest to persons with sustainable agricultural practices but he doesn't cham- little prior knowledge of agriculture. pion radical change. Professor Poincelot has written a The wide range of specificity and topics in this book book that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/BF02217967
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Abstract

Toward a More Sustainable Agriculture by Raymond P. PoinceloL Westport, CT: AVI Publishing Company, 1986. ISBN 0-87055-518-9. Hardcover. $28.50 David A. Egloff David Egioff is Professor of Biology at Oberlin College, where he teaches ecology and invertebrate biology in the biology department and in the interdisciplinary environmental studies program. His interest in agriculture is both practical and theoretical. He manages small plots of farm and forest lands in Iowa and Minnesota, and teaches an extended module on agriculture inhis Ecology and Environment course. This course enrolls largely non-science majors seeking a better understanding of environmental problems and issues. This is an interesting book that will not alarm advo- a survey of the traditional means of reducing agricultural cates or practitioners of conventional agriculture in the impacts on soil, water, and atmospheric systems. These United States. Raymond Poincelot, a Professor of Biol- chapters are less technically focused than the energy ogy at Fairfield University in Connecticut, argues for chapters, and will be of greatest interest to persons with sustainable agricultural practices but he doesn't cham- little prior knowledge of agriculture. pion radical change. Professor Poincelot has written a The wide range of specificity and topics in this book book that

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Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 27, 2005

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