MULTI - SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 9 ppt

... LLC 283 9 Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems: Bridging Disciplinary Gaps and Hierarchical Levels This chapter has the goal of illustrating examples of multi- scale integrated analysis of ... Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems3 06 9. 3 Applications to the Analysis of the Role of Agricultural Systems 9. 3.1...

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... (2000a), Multiple -scale integrated assessment of societal metabolism: Introducing the approach. Popul. Environ. 22(2): 1 09 153.) © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems1 60 extensive ... generate a robust multi- scale integrated analysis of these systems. This is discussed in detail in Section 6.3. In particular, examples are given...

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... Taboos of Reductionism. • Part 3: Complex Systems Thinking in Action: Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agro- Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems4 (lower cost of labor, abundance of ... all of this have to do with a multi- scale integrated analysis of agroecosystems? Well, the point I have been trying to make so far is that it has a lot t...

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... LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems2 2 FIGURE 2.3 The open nature of the set of attributes making up the semantic identity of a fish. (After Gomiero, T. 2003 Multi- Objective Integrated ... State University of New York Press, Albany. © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems3 8 2.3.4 Types Are out of Scale...

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... Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems5 8 • Is our integrated assessment of changes reflecting existing multiple goals found in the system? Any integrated assessment of the performance ... set of possible outcomes obtained using validated inferential systems or in terms of agreed-upon subjective probabilities. In any © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi-...

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... LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems7 2 By “semantic” I mean the ability to share the meaning assigned to the same set of terms by the population of users of those terms. Very often ... for governance (Funtowicz and Ravetz, 199 2). © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems8 2 evolutionary processes—things just happen...

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... e Costa, 199 0; Beinat and Nijkamp, 199 8; Janssen and Munda, 199 9; Munda, 199 5; Nijkamp et al., 199 0; Vincke, 199 2; Voogd, 198 3; Zeleny, 198 2). To clarify the idea of multi- criteria analysis in ... LLC Integrated Assessment of Agroecosystems and Multi- Criteria Analysis 123 In conclusion, the scientific aspects of multi- scale integrated analysis, which is the re...

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... Herendeen, 198 4; Watt, 198 9, 199 2; Adams, 198 8; Smil, 199 1; Hall et al., 198 6; Gever et al., 199 1; Debeir et al., 199 1) and a second elaboration of the original work by the “old guard” (Odum, 199 6; Pimentel ... descriptions and to provide a multi- scale integrated analysis of changes, effects and trends. © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of...

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... epistemic FIGURE 8.14 Definition of an image of an essence using a mosaic effect across scales. © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems2 42 the given set of possible types. ... 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems2 52 two essences: (1) that of a famous species of cartoons, Mickey Mouse and (2)...

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... Bureau of the Census), ( 199 4), Statistical Abstract of the United States, 199 0, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. WRI (World Resources Institute), ( 199 4), World Resources 199 4 -9 5, Oxford ... Pimentel, D., ( 199 4), Models of energy analysis to assess the performance of food systems, Agric. Syst., 45, 19 41.) © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated...

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