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The Greenleaf Farm Resiliency Project: An Ecological Landscape Design, Holly Lee Greenleaf Jan 2014

The Greenleaf Farm Resiliency Project: An Ecological Landscape Design, Holly Lee Greenleaf

Environmental Studies Electronic Thesis Collection

An ecological landscape design that increases the resiliency of Greenleaf Farm in the face of a changing climate is the basis for this project thesis. It is a comprehensive long-term master plan that integrates various agricultural and land management techniques in an attempt to increase resiliency, i.e. ecological and human/cultural resiliency. Patterns in the landscape inform design decisions and serve as models for agricultural systems. The landscape’s tendency to be forested and the goal for production of diverse resources inform the method to integrate ecological goals of the land with greater resilience. Applying the concepts of complexity and diversity to …


Carbon Farming In Relation To Western Australian Agriculture, Robert Sudmeyer, Jackson Parker, Tanmoy Nath, Ananda Ghose Jan 2014

Carbon Farming In Relation To Western Australian Agriculture, Robert Sudmeyer, Jackson Parker, Tanmoy Nath, Ananda Ghose

Bulletins 4000 -

Carbon farming activities need to return multiple economic and environmental co-benefits to be attractive to land managers. This bulletin summarises concepts underlying carbon farming, how Australia accounts for greenhouse gas emissions and the potential for Western Australian land managers to participate in, and benefit from, carbon farming.


The Greenleaf Farm Resiliency Project: An Ecological Landscape Design, Holly Lee Greenleaf Jan 2014

The Greenleaf Farm Resiliency Project: An Ecological Landscape Design, Holly Lee Greenleaf

UVM Patrick Leahy Honors College Senior Theses

An ecological landscape design that increases the resiliency of Greenleaf Farm in the face of a changing climate is the basis for this project thesis. It is a comprehensive long-term master plan that integrates various agricultural and land management techniques in an attempt to increase resiliency, i.e. ecological and human/cultural resiliency. Patterns in the landscape inform design decisions and serve as models for agricultural systems. The landscape’s tendency to be forested and the goal for production of diverse resources inform the method to integrate ecological goals of the land with greater resilience. Applying the concepts of complexity and diversity to …