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What is Sustainability of Farms?

Journal of Economic and Social Thought

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Title What is Sustainability of Farms?
 
Creator BACHEV, Hrabrin Ianouchev; Tohoku University, Japan
 
Subject Farm sustainability; Governance, Ecological aspects, Framework for assessment.
Q10; Q56; R33.
 
Description Abstract. This paper attempts to give answer to some important questions, on which there is no agreement among researchers, namely: “what is farm sustainability?”, “what is the relation between farm and agrarian sustainability?”, “which are critical factors of farms sustainability?”, and “how to assess farms sustainability level”. First, evolution of the “concept” of farm sustainability as alternative ideology, new strategy, system characteristics etc. is analyzed and discussed. On that base is suggested adequate definition of farm sustainability as ability of a particular farm to maintain its governance, economic, social and ecological functions in a long term. The final goal is better define farm sustainability and develop an efficient framework for assessing sustainability level of different type of farms.Keywords. farm sustainability, governance, economic, social, ecological aspects, framework for assessment.JEL. Q10, Q56, R33.
 
Publisher Journal of Economic and Social Thought
Journal of Economic and Social Thought
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2016-03-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/617
10.1453/jest.v3i1.617
 
Source Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 3, No 1 (2016): March; 35-48
Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 3, No 1 (2016): March; 35-48
2149-0422
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/617/774
 
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