| Agroecological Transitions, Between Determinist and Open-Ended Visions Contributor(s): Lamine, Claire (Editor), Magda, Daničle (Editor), Rivera-Ferre, Marta (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2807618529 ISBN-13: 9782807618527 Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques OUR PRICE: $42.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecology - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.84 lbs) 318 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Debates around agroecology most often focus on the depth and radicality of the change and relate to different visions of agroecology, which tends to eclipse the ontological relationships of actors (or researchers) to the very 'change process' itself. This book is an endeavor to explicate relationships to change in agroecological transitions, referring to two contrasting and ideal-typical ontological relationships to change, the determinist perspective and the open-ended perspective. These conceptions or interpretations of the change process are based respectively on whether objectives and means are predetermined, or defined during the change process and while accounting for the uncertainty and complexity of mechanisms of change as well as for the diversity of actors'visions. Many diverse cases of agroecological transitions are discussed in this book, in order to highlight the fact that these perspectives are not always exclusive in transition process but that they can be articulated successively or combined complementarily, in different ways - thus reinforcing the potential diversity of transition pathways. |