
An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides.
- Undertitel
- Energy Use Efficiency in the American South
- Författare
- Carl F. Jordan
- ISBN
- 9789400767898
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 446 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2013-06-03
- Förlag
- Springer
- Sidor
- 247