Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Relation of the Physical and Biological to the Social Sciences in Agricultural Research
Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Proceedings of the Annual Convention
Author: National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant CollegesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
Biology And The Social Sciences
Author: Thomas C. WiegelePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429724527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Exciting new developments in behavioral biology are creating an intellectual revolution in the study of human behavior and are causing social scientists to reassess the ways in which they approach their disciplines. This book examines how these new findings are likely to transform and shape anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science in the coming decade. The book begins with an overview of the rapidly changing relationship between biological and social studies. In successive sections, well-known social scientists, biologists, and philosophers address the theoretical challenges involved in incorporating material from sociobiology, ecology, genetics, and psychophysiology into their own disciplines' approaches to the analysis of human behavior. The concluding chapters examine specific methodological problems and related issues.
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Questions and Answers on Agricultural Research in the United States
Author: United States. Agricultural Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Questions and Answers on Agricultural Research in the United States
Author: United States. Agricultural Research AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural research
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Understanding Society and Natural Resources
Author: Michael J. ManfredoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401789592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives.
Agricultural Science Review
Author: Compilation of Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Questions for Discussion
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This volume compiles and reprints the responses of 37 organizations to a series of questions issued by the House Committee on Agriculture in anticipation of debates concerning the Research Title of the 1995 Farm Bill due for updating and revision. The questions address some of the following topics: the role of the federal government in agricultural research, coordination and relations with other federal agencies, the suitability of various regulations and procedures, setting research priorities, integrating federal-state-industry research pools, effectiveness of coordinating and advisory boards, efficiency and accountability in administration of these federal funds, partnerships with other types of organizations, guidelines for use of federal funds, land grant universities' roles, fund allocation formulas, and regional research and extension cooperation. The organizations that responded to these questions include the Department of Agriculture, the Coalition on Funding Agricultural Research Mission, professional societies such as the Phytopathological Society and the Entomological Society of America, individual higher education institutions like the Universities of Minnesota and Arkansas and Ohio State University, international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute, and Associations such as the American Feed Industry Association and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. (JB)
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