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Section I Increasing Sustainability
Chapter 1 The Ecological Foundations of Agroecosystem Sustainability Stephen R. Gliessman p. 3
Chapter 2 Increasing Sustainability in Mediterranean Cropping Systems with Self-Reseeding Annual Legumes Fabio Caporali and Enio Campiglia p. 15
Chapter 3 Manipulating Plant Biodiversity to Enhance Biological Control of Insect Pests: A Case Study of a Northern California Organic Vineyard Clara I. Nicholls and Miguel A. Altieri p. 29
Chapter 4 An Assessment of Tropical Homegardens as Examples of Sustainable Local Agroforestry Systems V. Ernesto Mendez p. 51
Chapter 5 Improving Agroecosystem Sustainability Using Organic (Plant-Based) Mulch Martha E. Rosemeyer p. 67
Section II Assessing Sustainability
Chapter 6 Nitrogen and the Sustainable Village Erle C. Ellis and Rong Gang Li and Lin Zhang Yang and Xu Cheng p. 95
Chapter 7 Nematode Communities as Ecological Indicators of Agroecosystem Health Deborah A. Neher p. 105
Chapter 8 Field-Scale Nutrient Cycling and Sustainability: Comparing Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems Joji Muramoto and Erle C. Ellis and Zhengfang Li and Rodrigo M. Machado and Stephen R. Gliessman p. 121
Section III Combining Social and Ecological Indicators of Sustainability
Chapter 9 Assessing Agricultural Sustainability Using the Six-Pillar Model: Iran as a Case Study Abbas Farshad and Joseph A. Zinck p. 137
Chapter 10 Coevolutionary Agroecology: A Policy Oriented Analysis of Socioenvironmental Dynamics, with Special Reference to Forest Margins in North Lampung, Indonesia Remi Gauthier and Graham Woodgate p. 153
Chapter 11 Operationalizing the Concept of Sustainability in Agriculture: Characterizing Agroecosystems on a Multi-Criteria, Multiple Scale Performance Space Mario Giampietro and Gianni Pastore p. 177
Index p. 203