tailieunhanh - Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 9

Công việc này chứng minh rằng một cách tiếp cận tổng thể để điều tra sức khỏe Hệ sinh thái nông nghiệp (AESH) và bắt đầu thực hiện quá trình bền vững cho AESH cải thiện là khả thi ngay cả với những tình huống lĩnh vực phức tạp. 2. Cộng đồng đã có thể sử dụng các khái niệm về phương pháp tiếp cận y tế để thảo luận và mô hình để cải thiện sinh kế của họ. Cách tiếp cận này cung cấp một ngôn ngữ hiểu, đơn giản nhưng chuyên môn cao của các cộng đồng,. | 9 General Conclusions 1. This work demonstrates that a holistic approach to investigating agroecosystem health AESH and beginning to implement sustainable processes for AESH improvement is feasible even with complex field situations. 2. Communities were able to use the concept of health to discuss and model approaches to improve their livelihoods. The approach provides a simple yet highly specialized language understood by the communities researchers extension agents development agents and policymakers for discussing issues relating to AESH and sustainability. 3. Although remarkably similar to traditional methods of integrated community development the AESH framework is based on the principles of systems theory and practice participatory and action research methods and conventional research methods combined into a transdisciplinary framework. The AESH framework as applied in this study is a metaphor to structure how people think about their actions social or economic and their implication on the biophysical world to improve their own well-being and to conserve the natural resource base on which their survival depends. 4. A unique feature in this process was that communities researchers and development agents played complementary roles. While the communities role was crucial to understanding the system and in defining the criteria for health the role of the researchers as experts in methods and that of the development and extension agent as subject experts was critical to the overall success of the project. 5. Cognitive maps graph theory and pulse process models were useful in analyzing community perceptions of factors that influence AESH and sustainability. That communities easily understood and applied cognitive maps to depict their perceptions combined with the fact that the cognitive maps were largely in agreement with findings from the participatory workshops indicate the potential of this method. In an action research process cognitive maps can be reevaluated