Assessing Sustainability of Agricultural Systems: Balancing Context Specificity and Generality

Assessing Sustainability of Agricultural Systems: Balancing Context Specificity and Generality

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Assessing Sustainability of Agricultural Systems: Balancing Context Specificity and Generality

Author: Vicent Gasso-Tortajada, Aarhus University Department of Engineering, Denmark

e-ISBN: 9788793237254

Available: December 2014

doi: https://doi.org/10.13052/rp-9788793237322


Can we "measure" sustainability? Should we use global or local sustainability metrics? Where should we place the bar to consider a farm sustainable? How should metrics be designed to better enhance learning, consciousness change, and sustainability action? This PhD dissertation addresses questions like these and presents a rationale for balancing the level of context-specificity and -generality of sustainability assessment frameworks to effectively and efficiently assess and incentivise the sustainability of agricultural systems ranging from food to bioenergy production.
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