Social-Ecological Restoration in Paddy-Dominated Landscapes

With a focus on environmentally friendly rice farming, this unique book integrates both ecosystem and human dimensions of ecological restoration to provide strategies to promote sustainable agriculture and rural development. Paddy fields have multiple functions beyond their role of producing rice: T...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Usio, Nisikawa (Editor ), Miyashita, Tadashi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Ecological Research Monographs,
Temas:
Biotic communities.
Environmental management.
Applied ecology.
Agriculture.
Conservation biology.
Ecology .
Sustainability.
Ecosystems.
Environmental Management.
Applied Ecology.
Conservation Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Part I Understanding Agricultural Systems in Japan
  • 1 Japan's Agricultural Policies after World War II: Agricultural Land Use Policies and Problems (Takuya Hashiguchi)
  • 2 Socio-Ecological Systems in Paddy-Dominated Landscapes in Asian Monsoon (Osamu Saito and Kaoru Ichikawa)
  • 3 Column: Promoting Agriculture with a Recognition of Biological Diversity in the Context of Rice Paddy Resolutions (Shinji Minami)
  • 4 Distribution and Abundance of Organisms in Paddy-Dominated Landscapes with Implications for Wildlife-Friendly Farming (Tadashi Miyashita, Miyu Yamanaka, and Masaru H Tsutsui)
  • Part II Restoring the Multifunctionality of Paddy-Dominated Landscapes
  • 5 Environmentally Friendly Farming in Japan: Introduction (Nisikawa Usio)
  • 6 Column: Endangered Species in Japan: Ex Situ Conservation Approaches and Reintroduction in the Wild (Mariko Kato)
  • 7 Effectiveness of Wildlife-Friendly Farming on Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Diversity on Sado Island in Japan (Nisikawa Usio, Ryoji Saito, Hiromi Akanuma, and Ryugo Watanabe)
  • 8 Column: Sado Wrinkled Frog: An Alternative Symbol for Wildlife-Friendly Farming on Sado Island? (Raita Kobayashi)
  • 9 Using the Oriental White Stork as an Indicator Species for Farmland Restoration (Kazuaki Naito, Shiro Sagawa, and Yoshito Ohsako)
  • 10 Nursery Grounds for Round Crucian Carp, Carassius auratus grandoculis, in Rice Paddies Around Lake Biwa (Taisuke Ohtsuka)
  • 11 Column: Rice-fish Culture: The Contemporary Significance of a Traditional Practice (Yusuke Koseki)
  • 12 Responses of Aquatic Insect, Terrestrial Arthropod, and Plant Biodiversity to the V-Furrow Direct Seeding Management in Rice Fields (Shinsaku Koji, Koji Ito, Daisuke Akaishi, Kohei Watanabe, Shin-ya Nomura, Daisuke Utsunomiya, Hongshu Pei, Nobuko Tuno, Kazumasa Hidaka, and Koji Nakamura)
  • 13 Can Paddy Fields Mitigate Flood Disaster? Possible Use and Technical Aspects of the Paddy Field Dam (Natsuki Yoshikawa)
  • Part III Developing Economic Incentives and Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture
  • 14 Sustainable Rice Agriculture by Maintaining the Functional Biodiversity on Ridges (Hidehiro Inagaki, Chieko Saiki, Kazuo Matsuno, and Minoru Ichihara)
  • 15 Assessing the Difficulty of Implementing Wildlife-Friendly Farming Practices by Using the Best-Worst Scaling Approach (Takahiro Tsuge, Satoshi Nakamura, and Nisikawa Usio)
  • 16 Column: In Search of Biodiversity-Oriented Farming (Shinichiro Saito)
  • 17 Sociological Advantages and Challenges of Community Farms in Sustainable Agricultural Practice (Takashi Kuwabara)
  • 18 Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Eco-labeled Rice: A Choice Experiment Approach to Evaluation of Toki-Friendly Rice Consumption (Kiyokazu Ujiie)
  • Part IV Integrating Human Dimensions into Ecological Restoration
  • 19 Linking Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Dynamics for the Effective Management of Agricultural Landscapes (Hiroyuki Yokomizo )
  • 20 Synthesis (Nisikawa Usio and Tadashi Miyashita)
  • BM Index.

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