Section I
Increasing Sustainability
Chapter 1
The Ecological Foundations of Agroecosystem
Sustainability ................................................... 3
Stephen R. Gliessman
Chapter 2
Increasing Sustainability in Mediterranean Cropping
Systems with Self-Reseeding Annual Legumes ...................... 15
Fabio Caporali and Enio Campiglia
Chapter 3
Manipulating Plant Biodiversity to Enhance Biological
Control of Insect Pests:
A Case Study of a Northern California Organic Vineyard .......... 29
Clara I. Nicholls and Miguel A. Altieri
Chapter 4
An Assessment of Tropical Homegardens as Examples of
Sustainable Local Agroforestry Systems .......................... 51
V. Ernesto Mendez
Chapter 5
Improving Agroecosystem Sustainability Using Organic
(Plant-Based) Mulch ............................................. 67
Martha E. Rosemeyer
Section II
Assessing Sustainability
Chapter 6
Nitrogen and the Sustainable Village ............................ 95
Erie C. Ellis, Rong Gang Li, Lin Zhang Yang, and Xu Cheng
Chapter 7
Nematode Communities as Ecological Indicators
of Agroecosystem Health ........................................ 105
Deborah A. Neher
Chapter 8
Field-Scale Nutrient Cycling and Sustainability:
Comparing Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems .................. 121
Joji Muramoto, Erle C. Ellis, Zhengfang Li,
Rodrigo M. Machado, and Stephen R. Gliessman
Section III
Combining Social and Ecological Indicators of Sustainability
Chapter 9
Assessing Agricultural Sustainability Using
the Six-Pillar Model: Iran as a Case Study ..................... 137
Abbas Farshad and Joseph A. Zinck
Chapter 10
Coevolutionary Agroecology: A Policy Oriented Analysis
of Socioenvironmental Dynamics, with Special Reference
to Forest Margins in North Lampung, Indonesia .................. 153
Remi Gauthier and Graham Woodgate
Chapter 11
Operationalizing the Concept of Sustainability
in Agriculture: Characterizing Agroecosystems
on a Multi-Criteria, Multiple Scale Performance Space .......... 177
Mario Giampietro and Gianni Pastore
Index .......................................................... 203
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