Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation || Conceptualizing System Innovation: Social Construction of Conservation Tillage and Cropping

✍ Scribed by Coughenour, C. Milton; Chamala, Shankariah

• Book ID: 120880270
• Publisher: Iowa State University Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 235 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0813819474
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470290149.ch2

✦ Synopsis

A sociological study of changing farming methods, Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation investigates those techniques that have gradually continued to replace the plow culture.

With thorough documentation of the conservation tillage and cropping revolution, this book features chapters on: The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future.

Booknews

This sociological study of innovation in agriculture looks at the causes, process, significance, and socioeconomic and ecological conditions of the change in tillage and cropping practices in the United States and Australia. It looks at the techniques that have replaced plow culture, tracing the changes that have occurred since the 1950s. Coughenour teaches sociology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Chamala teaches natural and rural systems management at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)