Transitions towards sustainable agriculture and food chains in peri-urban areas:

Agriculture is changing rapidly. The greatest current challenge to the agricultural sector is for it to become sustainable in all three of the dimensions profit, people and planet. This is certainly the case in highly urbanized countries like the Netherlands, where agriculture is confronted with hig...

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Veröffentlicht: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2009
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Zusammenfassung:Agriculture is changing rapidly. The greatest current challenge to the agricultural sector is for it to become sustainable in all three of the dimensions profit, people and planet. This is certainly the case in highly urbanized countries like the Netherlands, where agriculture is confronted with high land prices, rising consumer concerns for issues like animal welfare and negative environmental effects but also with new demands from the city for recreation, health care and local food products. These are some of the developments in our society that are forcing agriculture to change. The government, farmers, the agri-food industry and the retail sector struggle to meet this challenge and find new forms of governance. In the Netherlands, the government has called for a 'transition towards sustainable agriculture' and it is investing in this programme with its research and education policy. Similar trends have been obser
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Introduction / Maja Slingerland and Rudy Rabbinge -- 2. Transition management for sustainability: towards a multiple theory approach / Art Dewulf [and others] -- 3. Change in knowledge infrastructure: the third generation university / Rudy Rabbinge and Maja Slingerland -- 4. History is alluring: self-organisation and the significance of history in the search for a new local sense of collectivity / Irini Salverda [and others] -- 5. Transition starts with people: self-organising communities ADM and Golf Residence Dronten / Rosalie van Dam, Jasper Eshuis and Noelle Aarts -- 6. Learning in networks in Dutch agriculture: stimulating sustainable development through innovation and change / José Vogelezang [and others] -- 7. Networks with free actors: an organic approach to innovation and transition / Eelke Wielinga and Florentien Geerling-Eiff --
- 8. Collective analyses of barriers to and opportunities for sustainable development using the Innovation System Framework / Barbara van Mierlo and Marlèn Arkesteijn -- 9. Culture, innovation and governance in Europe: systems theories and the analysis of innovation in INTERREG programs / Roel During, Kristof Van Assche and André van der Zande -- 10. The Wageningen innovation assessment toolkit: how to improve the potential of transition projects? / Frances Fortuin and Onno Omta -- 11. Two complementary transition pathways: supporting strategies for innovation towards sustainable development in Dutch agriculture / Frank Wijnands and José Vogelezang -- 12. Synthesising needs in system innovation through structured design: a methodical outline of the role of needs in reflexive interactive design (RIO) / Bram Bos and Peter Groot Koerkamp --
- 13. How to deal with competing claims in peri-urban design and development: the DEED framework in the Agromere project / Andries J. Visser [and others] -- 14. Governmental strategies and sustainable transitions: monitoring systems for the prevention of animal disease / Catherine J.A.M. Termeer and Geert van der Peet -- 15. Institutional innovation and stakeholder engagement: linking transition management in the North with development in the global South / Jim Woodhill -- 16. Transition: contradictory but interacting processes of change in Dutch agriculture / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg -- 17. The relationship between description and prescription in transition research / Martijn Duineveld [and others] -- 18. Transitions in history / Pim Kooij -- 19. Kondratieff, Williamson and transitions in agriculture / Krijn J. Poppe -- 20. Where are we now? Where do we go from here? / Krijn J. Poppe, Catherine J.A.M Termeer and Maja Slingerland
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ISBN:9086866883
9789086866885
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-688-5