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Sustainable Farming
Fred Kirschenmann, PhD, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University

 

 

Brown LR. Plan B 2.0. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company; 2006, pp. 42-4.

Fiksel J. Sustainability and Resilience: Toward a Systems Approach. Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy, e-Journal for Sustainability. 2006;2(2)Fall.

Flannery T. The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press; 2005.

Furuno T. The Power of Duck. Sisters Creek, Tasmania, Australia: Tagari Publications; 2001, pp. 73.

Heinberg R. The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers; 2003.

Lewis WJ, van Lenteren JC, Phatak SC and Tumlinson, III JH. A Total System Approach to Sustainable Pest Management. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences. 1997;94:12243-122488.

Rosenzweig C, Iglesias A, Yang XB, Epstein PR and Chivian E. Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Implications for Food Production, Plant Diseases and Pests. Global Change and Human Health. 2001;2(2):90-104.

Shiyomi M and Koizumi H, eds. Structure and Function in Agroecosystem Design and Management. New York, NY: CRC Press; 2001,pp. 2-6.

Thackara J. In The Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2006, p. 32.

United Nations. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report. March 2005.

Nutrition and Human Health
Joan Gussow, Med, EdD, Columbia University

Pollan M. The Omnivore's Dilemma, New York, NY: Penguin Press; 2006.

Nestle M. Food Politics. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 2002.

Michelson L. Cultivating common ground: Linking health and sustainable agriculture. Prevention Institute, 2004.

Schoonover H and Muller M. Food without Thought: How U.S. Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, March 2006.