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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"permaculture"”.
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Permaculture as farming practice and international grassroots network: a multidisciplinary study
… as broader socio-environmental transformation. Permaculture is one such movement, with a provocative perspective on agriculture and human-environment relationships more broadly. Despite its relatively broad international distribution and high public profile, permaculture has remained relatively …
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Permaculture as an alternative to present commercial resettlement farming practices in Namibia
… farming difficult. Permanent agriculture (permaculture) is a way of living sustainably in the environment and it is proposed as an alternative farming method for the mostly poor and illiterate settlers on resettlement farms. It emphasises self-reliance on basic needs and the creation of …
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A Using Permaculture to Enhance Urban Food Security: An Abandoned Golf Course Case Study
An increasing number of people in the United States are finding it difficult to access a safe, personally acceptable, nutritious diet. Urban agriculture is seen as an important avenue for increasing their food security. For better or worse, urban agriculture is subject to the urban setting, …
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A Critical Exploration of Permaculture’s Global Role in Sustainable Development
Despite emerging literature on Permaculture as a sustainable solution-based approach to the environmental, economic and social consequences of non-sustainable global growth, many accounts infer it is a political practice working against many corporate and bureaucratic forms of power. Using examples …
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Moving Beyond Sustainability at Institutes of Higher Education: The Potential of a Permaculture Initiative at Texas State University-San Marcos
… regenerative designs for living systems, i.e.) permaculture. In other words, humans must strive not only to sustain current ways of life so a world exists for future generations to inherit, but also to restore broken life cycles and heal degraded environments to produce a world with increased …
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Towards a unity of ecology and ordinary ethics : on everyday life and aspirations to live sustainably in a permaculture community
… The dissertation uses ethnographic data about a permaculture community that practices such an integrated existence as a demonstration of permaculture's primary ethic to take responsibility for one's own existence. By asking what it means to say that the residents produce their own lives, the …
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Social Aesthetics: Affecting Change in Food Provisioning
… stewardship and food provisioning practices, permaculture (permanent agriculture) offers strategies and tactics to overcome those barriers. Despite mounting evidence that permaculture will result in more sustainable food systems, adoption is limited. Social aesthetics is the term employed by …
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Quel modèle pour une transition écologique de l'agriculture mauricienne?
… d'évaluer le potentiel de l'agroécologie, de la permaculture et de l'agroforesterie pour assurer une transition écologique de l'agriculture mauricienne. La mise en œuvre de cette transition agroécologique exige la détermination et l'intégration des enjeux économiques, sociaux et environnementaux …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
… recovery process. The CRT project incorporates permaculture technology, wilderness medicine protocols, community organizing skills, and transnational advocacy competencies with traditional community knowledge to create a culturally specific training curriculum. Through the research process, …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
… recovery process. The CRT project incorporates permaculture technology, wilderness medicine protocols, community organizing skills, and transnational advocacy competencies with traditional community knowledge to create a culturally specific training curriculum. Through the research process, …
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Hvanneyri – Hugmyndir að skipulagi
… og á hugmyndafræði vistmenningar/permaculture. Þessar hugmyndir eru mjög samhljóma og nátengdar hugmyndum um sjálfbæra þróun. Í skipulagstillögunni var lagt til að akstur bifreiða yrði færður út úr háskólahverfinu og miðsvæði Hvanneyrar. Einnig voru settar fram hugmyndir um …
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Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food
… - Community, Environmental, Cultivation, and Permaculture - with varying forms and functions. This thesis concludes by demonstrating how each garden type belongs to a cohesive stewardship gardening movement. The common denominator of stewardship gardens, sacredness in the landscape, is …
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Energy scarcity and food security: strategies for transition to resilient food system governance
… agroecology is promoted, to complement existing permaculture and organic approaches.
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Comparative Ecological Modeling for Long-term Solution of Excess Nitrogen Loading to Surface Waters and Related Chronic and Systemic Human-Environment Problems
… agricultural use. These results recommend permaculture, agroforestry and perennial agriculture to provide food and other human needs while building soil and enhancing soil fertility. Audits of the Appalachian Laboratory in Frostburg, MD, showed this environmental science facility causes …
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The new philanthropy and smallholder farmers' livelihoods. A case study of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in the northern region of Ghana
… such as irrigation farming agroecology, and permaculture could be exploited to the benefits of smallholder farmers. The outcomes of this study have policy implications for philanthropic practitioners. This study shows that the failure to involve farmers directly in decisions that affect their …
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Neoliberalism and alternative food movements: markets, the state, and knowledge production in Southern California
… Building on sustainable agriculture by using permaculture, dry land farming techniques, and experimenting with the local habitat, SDRS is contributing to new knowledge about how to farm ecologically in San Diego. In addition to selling their produce at the farm and local venues, they work to …
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Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry
… of water shortage and cut-offs. It aims to put permaculture ideals into use by routing the stagnant water and making it into a system that consistently cleans itself over time. Routed water embeds a logic that becomes the catalyst for the fulfilment of a bio-inspired future -of which I …
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Shared Lunch: An Ethnography of Food Sovereignty in Whaingaroa and Beyond
… community gardens, small scale organic and permaculture farms, and other community groups and businesses focussed on producing and distributing local food, as well as minimising waste and environmental harm. Key participants were chosen to represent the diverse range of people involved in …
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Sustainable urban agriculture: a sustainable adaptation strategy for the City of Cape Town? : Practices and views on sustainable urban agriculture and climate change in Cape Town
… the farmers as they are using practices such as permaculture or organic farming, which allow them to cope with the impacts of climate variability and climate change. If sustainable farming practices were emphasized instead of farming practices towards small-scale, home-based activity to improve …
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