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Title Social-ecological restoration in paddy-dominated landscapes / Nisikawa Usio, Tadashi Miyashita, editors
Published Tokyo : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Ecological Research Monographs, 2191-0707
Ecological research monographs.
Contents Preface -- Contributors -- Part I Understanding Agricultural Systems in Japan -- 1 Japan?s Agricultural Policies after World War II: Agricultural Land Use Policies and Problems (Takuya Hashiguchi) -- 2 Socio-Ecological Systems in Paddy-Dominated Landscapes in Asian Monsoon (Osamu Saito and Kaoru Ichikawa) -- 3 Column: Promoting Agriculture with a Recognition of Biological Diversity in the Context of Rice Paddy Resolutions (Shinji Minami) -- 4 Distribution and Abundance of Organisms in Paddy-Dominated Landscapes with Implications for Wildlife-Friendly Farming (Tadashi Miyashita, Miyu Yamanaka, and Masaru H Tsutsui) -- Part II Restoring the Multifunctionality of Paddy-Dominated Landscapes -- 5 Environmentally Friendly Farming in Japan: Introduction (Nisikawa Usio) -- 6 Column: Endangered Species in Japan: Ex Situ Conservation Approaches and Reintroduction in the Wild (Mariko Kato) -- 7 Effectiveness of Wildlife-Friendly Farming on Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Diversity on Sado Island in Japan (Nisikawa Usio, Ryoji Saito, Hiromi Akanuma, and Ryugo Watanabe) -- 8 Column: Sado Wrinkled Frog: An Alternative Symbol for Wildlife-Friendly Farming on Sado Island? (Raita Kobayashi) -- 9 Using the Oriental White Stork as an Indicator Species for Farmland Restoration (Kazuaki Naito, Shiro Sagawa, and Yoshito Ohsako) -- 10 Nursery Grounds for Round Crucian Carp, Carassius auratus grandoculis, in Rice Paddies Around Lake Biwa (Taisuke Ohtsuka) -- 11 Column: Rice-fish Culture: The Contemporary Significance of a Traditional Practice (Yusuke Koseki) -- 12 Responses of Aquatic Insect, Terrestrial Arthropod, and Plant Biodiversity to the V-Furrow Direct Seeding Management in Rice Fields (Shinsaku Koji, Koji Ito, Daisuke Akaishi, Kohei Watanabe, Shin-ya Nomura, Daisuke Utsunomiya, Hongshu Pei, Nobuko Tuno, Kazumasa Hidaka, and Koji Nakamura) -- 13 Can Paddy Fields Mitigate Flood Disaster? Possible Use and Technical Aspects of the Paddy Field Dam (Natsuki Yoshikawa) -- Part III Developing Economic Incentives and Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture -- 14 Sustainable Rice Agriculture by Maintaining the Functional Biodiversity on Ridges (Hidehiro Inagaki, Chieko Saiki, Kazuo Matsuno, and Minoru Ichihara) -- 15 Assessing the Difficulty of Implementing Wildlife-Friendly Farming Practices by Using the Best?Worst Scaling Approach (Takahiro Tsuge, Satoshi Nakamura, and Nisikawa Usio) -- 16 Column: In Search of Biodiversity-Oriented Farming (Shinichiro Saito) -- 17 Sociological Advantages and Challenges of Community Farms in Sustainable Agricultural Practice (Takashi Kuwabara) -- 18 Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Eco-labeled Rice: A Choice Experiment Approach to Evaluation of Toki-Friendly Rice Consumption (Kiyokazu Ujiie) -- Part IV Integrating Human Dimensions into Ecological Restoration -- 19 Linking Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Dynamics for the Effective Management of Agricultural Landscapes (Hiroyuki Yokomizo) -- 20 Synthesis (Nisikawa Usio and Tadashi Miyashita) -- BM Index
Summary With a focus on environmentally friendly rice farming, this unique book integrates both ecosystem and human dimensions of ecological restoration to provide strategies to promote sustainable agriculture and rural development. Paddy fields have multiple functions beyond their role of producing rice: They serve as refuge habitats for a range of wildlife that once inhabited floodplain wetlands and contain a number of unique and threatened aquatic species. They also provide various ecosystem services for regional communities such as water retention, erosion control, flood control, fish culture, and educational opportunities. However, rice paddies are threatened worldwide due to the modernization of agriculture and abandonment of farmland caused by depopulation and the aging of rural communities. Therefore, multiple ecological and sociological aspects must be considered in the ecological restoration of paddy fields. This book aims to do so by incorporating various disciplines of natural and social sciences. Strategies for sustainable agriculture are reviewed, including financial incentives for farmers and the use of flagship wildlife species such as the crested ibis (toki) to promote ecological restoration. With the increasing popularity of environmentally friendly rice farming in parts of Asia and the western United States, this book offers model cases for sustainable management of paddy-dominated landscapes
Analysis milieubeheer
environmental management
ecologie
ecology
milieubescherming
environmental protection
natuurbescherming
nature conservation
natte rijst
flooded rice
ecosystemen
ecosystems
duurzame ontwikkeling
sustainable development
landbouw
agriculture
agroecosystems
Agroecosystems
Agro-ecosystemen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 4, 2015)
In Springer eBooks
Subject Land use -- Environmental aspects -- Japan
Agrobiodiversity conservation -- Japan
Restoration ecology -- Japan
Environmental management.
Sustainable development.
environmental control.
farming (activity or system)
sustainable development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Agrobiodiversity conservation
Land use -- Environmental aspects
Restoration ecology
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Usio, Nisikawa, editor
Miyashita, Tadashi, editor
ISBN 9784431553304
4431553304
4431553290
9784431553298