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dc.contributor.authorParrott, Nicholas
dc.contributor.editorWright, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-09T10:26:35Z
dc.date.available2021-09-09T10:26:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50587
dc.description.abstract"This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming, and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. If you think this book isn’t for you, if it appears more important to attend to the pressing physical challenges the world is facing before having the luxury of turning to such subtleties, then think again. For it could be precisely this worldview – the one prioritises the physical-material dimension of reality - that helped get us into this situation in the first place. Perhaps we need a different worldview to get us out? This book makes a foundational contribution to the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies, a nexus of indigenous epistemologies, multidisciplinary advances in wave-based and ethereal studies, and the science of sustainable agriculture. Not a farming system in itself, Subtle Agroecologies superimposes a non-material dimension upon existing, materially-based agroecological farming systems. Bringing together 43 authors from 12 countries and five continents, from the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities, this multi-contributed book introduces the discipline, explaining its relevance and potential contribution to the field of Agroecology. Research into Subtle Agroecologies may be described as the systematic study of the nature of the invisible world as it relates to the practice of agriculture, and to do this through adapting and innovating with research methods, in particular with those of a more embodied nature, with the overall purpose of bringing and maintaining balance and harmony. Such research is an open-minded inquiry, its grounding being the lived experiences of humans working on, and with, the land over several thousand years to the present. By reclaiming and reinterpreting the perennial relationship between humans and nature, the implications would revolutionise agriculture, heralding a new wave of more sustainable farming techniques, changing our whole relationship with nature to one of real collaboration rather than control, and ultimately transforming ourselves."en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAdvances in Agroecologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVR Forestry and silvicultureen_US
dc.subject.otherEnergy in agriculture;holistic farming;increase crop production;pest control;quantum-based farming;Sustainable agricultureen_US
dc.titleSubtle Agroecologiesen_US
dc.title.alternativeFarming With the Hidden Half of Natureen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1201/9780429440939en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByCoventry University
oapen.relation.isbn9780367768874en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781138339811en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780429440939en_US
oapen.imprintCRC Pressen_US
oapen.pages384en_US
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