Context: The problems that are most in need of interdisciplinary collaboration are “wicked problems,” such as food crises, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development …
GC Homsy, ME Warner - Sociologia Ruralis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change requires action at multiple levels of government. We focus on the potential for climate change policy creation among small rural governments in the USA. We argue that …
Sustainability assessments bring together different perspectives that pertain to sustainability to produce overall assessments, and a wealth of approaches and tools have been …
This article discusses the problem of implementing scientific knowledge in practice. The discussion is based on a case study of barriers to implementing research‐based principles …
A Sundrum - Frontiers in Animal Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Animal science has contributed to a considerable increase in the productive efficiency of animal sourced food. However, livestock farmers have not been able so far to succeed in …
Assessing the overall effects of organic food systems is important, but also a challenge because organic food systems cannot be fully assessed from one single research …
S Shortall - Sociologia Ruralis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article argues that to understand the use of evidence in policy, we need to examine how meanings and practices in the civil service shape what is accepted as knowledge, and how …
EB Noe, HF Alrøe - Law and Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue, 2015 - Springer
There are two main challenges for law and policy to foster a sustainable development of agri- food systems through regulation. The first challenge is that the regulation of a certain aspect …
S Shortall - Sociologia Ruralis, 2013 - search.ebscohost.com
Sociology, Knowledge and Evidence in Rural Policy Making Page 1 Sociology, Knowledge and Evidence in Rural Policy Making Sally Shortall Rural research and contested knowledge Over …