Systems integration and innovation
This chapter explores complex adaptive systems and why management strategies need to be adaptive as well in order to achieve long-term sustainability. Each landscape has its […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): K.M. Moore
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Capacity Building, Natural Resource Management
The Sciences and Art of Adaptive Management: Innovating for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
In this book, various authors describe their expertise and each explains a different aspect of adaptive management. This collective work offers a detailed breakdown of the […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): K.M. Moore; with J. Alwang; R. Andrade; V. Barrera; M. Bertelsen; D. Birur; L. Buc; S. Cisse; D. Finney; C.B. Flora; E.A. Frimpong; C.A. Haas; S. Hamilton; P. Hepperly; S.M. Karpanty; K.M. Moore; S. Mostaghimi; J.P. Mueller; G.W. Norton; S.J. Scherr; D.B. Sherwood; G. Shively; A. Thiboumery; A. Toure; S. Walker; P. Wyeth
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation, Natural Resource Management
The field system
The most fundamental socio-ecological system through which humans interact with the biosphere is the field system. The field system comprises both biotic and abiotic components that […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): J.P. Mueller; D. Finney; P. Hepperly
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation, Natural Resource Management
Adapting disease forecasting models to coarser scales: Global potato late blight prediction
Many predictive models of plant disease rely upon fine-scale weather data collected in hourly increments, or finer. This data requirement is a major constraint when applying […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A.H. Sparks; G. Forbes; K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Food Security, Productivity
Semi-Annual Report for the technology (drip irrigation) and environmental impact (SWAT modeling) components of “Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production in Southeast Asian Watersheds” Project
Executive Summary: Significant progress has been made for the drip irrigation technology and SWAT modeling components of this project over the past six months. The laboratory […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): V.B. Ella
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Semi-annual report: Gender and network research “Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production” project
Four critical activities were undertaken during the first six months of Year 4, as follows: (1) continued data gathering through Participatory Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): E. Chiong-Javier
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Anticipating and responding to biological complexity in the effects of climate change on agriculture
The effects of climate change on biological systems are complex. This is particularly apparent for multispecies systems such as plant diseases and plant-herbivore interactions where climate […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): K.A. Garrett; G. Forbes; S. Pande; S. Savary; A. Sparks; C. Valdivia; C. Vera Cruz; L. Willocquet
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Understanding climate change projections for the Northern Altiplano
Adapting to Change in the Andean Highlands: Practices and Strategies to Address Climate and Market Risks in Vulnerable Agro-ecosystems (SANREM CRSP LTRA 4) focus is to […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): A. Seth
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
In Bolivia’s Marketplaces, Women Rule
When Bolivian farm families bring their produce to the sprawling market in Tiraque, husbands help their wives carry in the huge sacks of potatoes that are […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): D. Estrada
- Type of Document: Newspaper Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Challenges and Approaches to Statistical Design and Inference in High Dimensional Investigations
Part II, Networks, Pathways, Statistical Issues, and Novel Computational Tools, includes this particular chapter on the unique statistical challenges and approaches relating to high-dimensional biological research. […]
- Date of Publication: 2009
- Author(s): G.L. Gadbury; K.A. Garrett; D.B. Allison
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
