A framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making
| Autor: | Ludwig H. Lauwers, Ine Coteur, Floris Dalemans, Fleur Marchand, Lies Debruyne |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Engineering
Process management Geography Planning and Development Social sustainability Framework Context (language use) 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Farm level 01 natural sciences Sustainability assessment tools Sustainable agriculture Sustainability organizations Biology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences On-farm strategic decision making Flexibility (engineering) Sustainable development Ecology Management science business.industry Sustainability assessment 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Chemistry Sustainability 040103 agronomy & agriculture 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries business Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Environmental impact assessment review |
| ISSN: | 0195-9255 |
| Popis: | Responding to future challenges and societal needs, various actions are taken in agriculture to evolve towards more sustainable farming practices. These actions imply strategic choices and suppose adequate sustainability assessments to identify, measure, evaluate and communicate sustainable development. However, literature is scarce on the link between strategic decision making and sustainability assessment. As questions emerge on how, what and when to measure, the objective of this paper is to construct a framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making. Qualitative research on own experiences from the past and a recent project revealed four categories of actual needs farmers, advisors and experts have regarding sustainability assessment: context, flexibility, focus on farm and farmer and communication. These stakeholders' needs are then incorporated into a two-dimensional framework that marries the intrinsic complexity of sustainability assessment tools and the time frame of strategic decision making. The framework allows a farm-specific and flexible approach leading to harmonized actions towards sustainable farming. As this framework is mainly a procedural instrument to guide the use of sustainability assessment tools within strategic decision making, it fits to incorporate, even guide, future research on sustainability assessment tools themselves and on their adoption on farms. publisher: Elsevier articletitle: A framework for guiding sustainability assessment and on-farm strategic decision making journaltitle: Environmental Impact Assessment Review articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2016.04.003 content_type: article copyright: © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ispartof: Environmental Impact Assessment Review vol:60 pages:16-23 status: published |
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