Integrated farm sustainability assessment for the environmental management of rural activities

Autor: I. A. Rodrigues, Inácio de Barros, Cláudio Cesar de Almeida Buschinelli, Geraldo Stachetti Rodrigues
Přispěvatelé: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento [Brasil] (MAPA), Governo do Brasil-Governo do Brasil, Agropolis International, Unité de Recherche AgroPédoClimatique de la zone caraïbe (APC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2010
Předmět:
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Geography
Planning and Development
010501 environmental sciences
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
01 natural sciences
12. Responsible consumption
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Environmental Sustainability Index
11. Sustainability
Sustainable agriculture
Environmental impact assessment
Environmental planning
Environmental quality
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
2. Zero hunger
Sustainable development
MULTI-ATTIBUTE METHODOLOGY
Ecology
business.industry
Environmental resource management
1. No poverty
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
15. Life on land
Natural resource
APOIA-NOVORURAL
13. Climate action
Agriculture
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
8. Economic growth
Sustainability
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture
forestry
and fisheries
Environmental science
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
business
Zdroj: Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Elsevier, 2010, 30 (4), pp.229-239. ⟨10.1016/j.eiar.2009.10.002⟩
ISSN: 0195-9255
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2009.10.002⟩
Popis: article i nfo Farmers have been increasingly called upon to respond to an ongoing redefinition in consumers' demands, having as a converging theme the search for sustainable production practices. In order to satisfy this objective, instruments for the environmental management of agricultural activities have been sought out. Environmental impact assessment methods are appropriate tools to address the choice of technologies and management practices to minimize negative effects of agricultural development, while maximizing productive efficiency, sound usage of natural resources, conservation of ecological assets and equitable access to wealth generation means. The 'system for weighted environmental impact assessment of rural activities' (APOIA-NovoRural) presented in this paper is organized to provide integrated farm sustainability assessment according to quantitative environmental standards and defined socio-economic benchmarks. The system integrates sixty-two objective indicators in five sustainability dimensions — (i) Landscape ecology, (ii) Environmental quality (atmosphere, water and soil), (iii) Sociocultural values, (iv) Economic values, and (v) Management and administration. Impact indices are expressed in three integration levels: (i) specific indicators, that offer a diagnostic and managerial tool for farmers and rural administrators, by pointing out particular attributes of the rural activities that may be failing to comply with defined environmental performance objectives; (ii) integrated sustainability dimensions, that show decision-makers the major contributions of the rural activities toward local sustainable development, facilitating the definition of control actions and promotion measures; and (iii) aggregated sustainability index, that can be considered a yardstick for eco-certification purposes. Nine fully documented case studies carried out with the APOIA- NovoRural system, focusing on different scales, diverse rural activities/farming systems, and contrasting spatial/territorial contexts, attest to the malleability of the method and its applicability as an integrated farm environmental management tool.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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