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Farms And Ecosystem Services, J.B. Ruhl
Farms And Ecosystem Services, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Over the past decade two themes have emerged as organizing principles in natural resources policy. One, ecosystem management, builds a framework for landscape–level decision making (Christensen et al. 1996). The other, ecosystem services, opens a new dimension for thinking about what we hope to achieve through ecosystem management (Daily 1997; Costanza et al. 1997). The convergence of these two themes has become a driving force behind the concept of agricultural multifunctionality, the idea that farms can have multiple outputs—not just commodities—and thus can contribute to several societal objectives simultaneously (Jordan et al. 2007; OECD 2001).
Agriculture And The Environment: Three Myths, Three Themes, Three Directions, J.B. Ruhl
Agriculture And The Environment: Three Myths, Three Themes, Three Directions, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Three very powerful and widely disseminated myths, what I call the Three Myths, have obscured the reality that agriculture is a leading source of environmental harm in our nation. Until we can divorce the dialogue on agri-environmental policy from these myths, the discussion of goals and policy instruments will remain mired.