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Defending the social licence of farming : issues, challenges and new directions for agriculture /
Issues including climate variability, water scarcity, animal welfare and declining biodiversity have led to increasing demands on farmers to conduct and communicate their farming practices so as to protect their 'social licence to farm'. Farmers are increasingly expected to demonstrate the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Collingwood, Vic. :
CSIRO Publishing,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the contributors; Scene Setting; 1 What is meant by the social licence?; 2 Understanding the social obligations of farmers; 3 The role of virtue in natural resource management; EXPERIENCE OF FARMERS; 4 Organic poetic licence: consumer moral norms driving farming systems; 5 Triple bottom line reporting in the irrigation sector; 6 Social licence issues in developing economies; 7 Retaining the social licence: the Australian cotton industry case study; 8 Farmers heal the land: a social licence for agriculture in Iceland.
- 9 American agriculture's social licence to operate10 Soil conservation in Europe; Legal and Institutional Aspects; 11 Social licence and international law: the case of the European Union; 12 The state of social impact indicators: measurement without meaning?; 13 The business judgement rule and voluntary reporting; 14 The duty of care: an ethical basis for sustainable natural resource management in farming?; 15 Co-management as a social licence initiative; 16 A conceptual framework for sustainable agriculture; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; 17 Renegotiating farmers' social licence; Index.