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... them—the goals are often competing and sometimes conicting. Thus, the goal-seeking and self-organizing behaviors of agroecosystems occur in a series of trade-offs and bal- ances with inherent ... Group, LLC 10 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems spatial heterogeneity and biological diversity (Toledo, 1990). Self-sufciency is...

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... predict the health and sustainability of the © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 44 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems produced in Gitangu village, and there ... Group, LLC 32 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems both the sources and the types of conicting or competing persp...

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... Francis Group, LLC 70 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems activities, and carry out agroecosystem health assessments. The choice and sequenc- ing of participatory ... Agroecosystems (4) develop suites of indicators of health and sustainability, and (5) monitor progress, assess health and sustainability, and evaluate...

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... LLC 126 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Klee, V. (1989). Sign-pattern and stability. In Applications of Combinatorics and Graph The- ory to the Biological and ... Group, LLC 100 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems The impacts of Githima community’s goals, based on a geometric analy...

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... LLC 144 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Iterative steps of implementation, monitoring, and reection allow for short-term planning toward medium-term and long-term ... LLC 128 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems step in the second (logic-based) mode of inquiry is to formulate models,...

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... Francis Group, LLC 162 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems TABLE 6.4 Researcher-Proposed Land-Use Unit (LUU)-Level Indicators of Health and Sustainability Classification ... nil nil Well-being nil nil a Number of land-use unit-level indicators b Number of study-site-level indicators © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Develop...

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... (DIM19R2) measure- ments of researcher-proposed land-use unit (LUU)-level indicators. © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 196 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems REFERENCES Afgan, ... agroecosystem health and sustainability assessment, indicators should be ana- lyzed in two ways: (1) as measures of overall health at a point i...

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... LLC 200 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Although, on average, income for a household was low, many of the households had diverse sources of income, including off-farm ... soft systems methods (Chapter 5), and conventional research approaches were combined in an open-ended, adaptive research -and- development process. Two suites o...

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... demonstrates the success of the AESH approach in operationalizing the concepts of AESH and sustainability and in incorporating them into the decision-making processes of the communities. © 2009 ... based on the principles of sys- tems theory and practice, participatory and action research methods, and conventional research methods combined into a transdisciplinary frame...

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