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Book chapter - Peer-reviewed, 2022

Integrated Assessment of the Sustainability and Resilience of Farming Systems : Lessons from the Past and Ways Forward for the Future

Accatino, Francesco; Paas, Wim; Herrera, Hugo; Pinsard, Corentin; Severini, Simone; Appel, Franziska; Kopainsky, Birgit; Bankowska, Katarzyna; Bijttebier, Jo; Gavrilescu, Camelia; Khafagy, Amr; Krupin, Vitaliy; Manevska Tasevska, Gordana; Ollendorf, Franziska; Peneva, Mariya; San Martín, Carolina; Zinnanti, Cinzia; Reidsma, Pytrik

Abstract

This chapter assessed sustainability and resilience of eleven farming systems in their current situation, as well as in hypothetical future systems, using qualitative and quantitative methods. The assessment shows that current farming systems address sustainability dimensions in an unbalanced way and are characterized by poor resilience. Future resilient systems are imagined to promote environmental and social functions in the long term.

Keywords

farming system; resilience; sustainability; functions; challenges; strategies; resilience capacities; resilience attributes

Published in

Title: Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems in Europe : Exploring Diversity and Pathways
ISBN: 978-1-009-09828-1, eISBN: 978-1-009-09356-9
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Agricultural Science
    Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
    Economics

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009093569.018

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/116954