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Book SynopsisThis text draws upon 'complex systems' thinking to introduce a policy-related integrative method for diagnosing and managing environmental change. This conveys how existing intellectual resources can be exploited to explore environmental decision issues without resoring to such devices as 'meta-methods' or 'meta-disciplines'.
Table of ContentsPREFACE, LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, 1. Policy Relevant Research: The Nature of the Problem, 2. Towards an Integrative Method, 3. Background to Agriculture and Degradation in the Argolid Valley, 4. Social Enquiry and Natural Phenomena, 5. Complexity, Systems and Models, 6. Agricultural Production and Change, 7. Technology and Agricultural Production in the Argolid, 8. Structural Weaknesses and the Argolid?, 9. Perceived Uncertainty and Farming: Establishing a Framework for Crop Choice, 10. Policy Relevant Modelling in the Argolid: From Sociological Investigation to Crop Choice Model, 11. Towards a Strategic Complex Systems Model of the Water/Salt System, 12. The Strategic Model of Water Flow, 13. Development of an Enhanced Integrated Dynamic Model, 14. Where to From Here?, REFERENCES, INDEX
