Ethnobotany (Martin 1995). In this con- text the term interdisciplinarity refers explicitly to the fact [...] (Bortz & Döring 1995, Martin 1995). Material The terms home garden or garden (in earlier times called herbal
major confusions was fuelled by the fact that the term ‘system’ is used in a number of combinations, e [...] not call it Farming Systems Research? Indeed, the term is rarely used as a key word in publications, nor [...] 1 In this book we mostly keep with the original term, i.e. ‘Farming Systems Research’. However, we make
remained a long-term vision, climate policy-making became concrete in the short term. In 1999, the Swiss [...] building policies of all 26 Swiss cantons in general terms, we also had a closer look at three pioneer cantons: [...] To put highly complex policy processes in simple terms, CPI as outcome (or CO2 emission cuts) depends,
Research and Management taking into account long-term development to sustain and improve e.g. ecosystem [...] Integrated Water Resources Management in a long-term context, taking account of the potential impact [...] potential of energetic co-utilization. In the long term, no alternatives exist to the use of renewable carbon
benefits of production can be valued in monetary terms. In case such evaluation results are not available [...] path of sustainability can be measured in monetary terms. Given such valuations exist the question arises
much driven by status quo considerations and short-term issues, which makes it difficult sometimes to think [...] even if it was tried to emphasise to think in terms of ‘packages’ of governance mechanisms and include [...] of the mechanisms performance in being “good” in terms of fulfilling criteria of good governance. Such
