Subject: The Environmental Imperative: Ecosocial Concerns for Australian (fwd)

From: Victor Guest <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 20:01:13 WST

>The Environmental Imperative: Ecosocial Concerns for Australian 
>Agriculture by Frank Vanclay and Geoffrey Lawrence
>published by Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton
>is now published and available.
>
>Copies are available from 
>the Centre for Rural Social Research.
>in Australia and overseas (surface)
>$25 includes post and packaging
>
>$5 extra for airmail to overseas.
>(see address in my signature file)
>
>Order form is also available on my home page.
>
>
>Description (from back cover)
>
>While many excellent overseas publications exist, there are few 
>Australian books which  seek to examine, from a sociological 
>perspective, the relationship between the continuing  
>degradation of the environment and the social relations of production 
>in agriculture. This  book provides an up-to-date text for students 
>in rural sociology and environmental  sociology units in Australian 
>universities. We also hope that it will help to develop a  
>more critical, sociological approach to the understanding of the 
>social aspects of land  degradation, and will stimulate discussion 
>about how to develop a more environmentally  sustainable agriculture 
>in Australia.  
>
>The book carries endorsements by
>Prof Fred Buttel (USA)
>Prof Neils Roling (Netherlands)
>and  Andrew Campbell 
>former National Landcare Faciltator (Australia).
>
>
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>Contents
>
>INTRODUCTION: Agro-Ecological Concerns in Australian Agriculture
>
>PART A:	Political Economy Perspectives on Australian Agriculture
>
>Chapter 1:	The Restructuring of Agriculture: 
>	Environmental and Social Implications
>
>Chapter 2:	Environmental Degradation in the Semi-Periphery: 
>	Problems in the Murray-Darling Basin 
>
>Chapter 3:	The Search for New Technologies: 
>	Is Biotechnology the Answer to Environmental Degradation?
>
>Chapter 4:	Farmers and Scientists: What Will the Future Bring?
>
>
>PART B:	 Agricultural Extension: The Key to Sustainability?
>
>Chapter 5:	Adoption of Environmental Management Practices: 
>	Farmers' Attitudes, Knowledge and Behaviour
>
>Chapter 6:	Farmer Rationality and the so-called Barriers to Adoption
>
>Chapter 7:	Agricultural Extension: Failures and Virtues
>
>Chapter 8:	Toward a Sociology of Contemporary Agricultural Extension
>
>Chapter 9:	Conclusion: 
>	The Environmental and Social Imperative for Australian Agriculture
>
>REFERENCES
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>INDEX
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>Dr Frank Vanclay
>Centre for Rural Social Research
>Charles Sturt University
>Locked Bag 678
>Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
>AUSTRALIA
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>ph (h) +61-69-213397
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