Description |
iv, 228 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: Challenges and future directions for extension/ Jennings, Packham and Woodside -- Sect. I: Defining the field, historical development and conceptual frameworks. Enabling change in rural and regional Australia/ Vanclay and Leach -- The origin of extension/ Jennings -- Past and present history of extension in New Zealand/ Parminter -- Theories and approaches of extension: review of extension in capacity building/ Coutts and Roberts -- The farming systems approach/ Packham -- The worlds we create: desiging learning systems for the underworld of extension/ Ison and Russell -- Sect. 2: principles and practices for enabling change. Social principles for agricultural extension for the promotion of natural resource management/ Vanclay -- Adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders/ Pannell, Marshall, Barr, Curtis, Vanclay and Wilkinson -- The role of extension for improving natural resource management: the Australian experience/ Millar -- The role of extension for improving natural resource management: the New Zealand experience/ Parminter -- Local agricultural and environmental knowledge: working with Thai institutes and communities/ Robinson -- Outstanding in her field/ McGowan -- Extension planning/ Crisp and Holt -- monitoring, evaluation and reporting of extension/ Roberts and Coutts -- |
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Sect. 3: Building social capital. Building social capital to achieve sustainale farm practices/ Love, Carroll and Prior -- Capacity building in farming systems/ Nettle and Paine -- Power and participation: exploring the traditions of power/ Kelly -- Myers Briggs type Indicator preferences by industry and implications for extension/ Strachan -- Resilience and productivity/ Paine, Crawford and Nettle -- Sect. 4: Economics, policy and the market for extension. Economics and extension/ Marsh, Pannell and Llewellyn -- The contribution of research to productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture/ Mullen and Cox -- Public and private extension/ Stone -- Extension policy in Australia- challenges and solutions/ Leach |
Summary |
Shaping Change presents the current state of play of Extension, and its role in Natural Resource Management and commercial agricultural industry for the Australasia-Pacific region. It is a prime text for under- and post-graduate students, and an essential reference manual for new and experienced Extension professionals alike, be they engaged exclusively in environmental conservation, agricultural productivity, or more commonly both |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Agricultural extension work -- Australasia.
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Agricultural extension work -- Pacific Area.
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Agricultural extension work.
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Rural extension work -- Australasia
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Natural resources -- Management.
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Rural extension work -- Pacific Area
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Rural extension work
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Rural extension -- Australasia.
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Rural extension -- Pacific Area.
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Author |
Jennings, Jess, editor
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Packham, R. G., editor
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Woodside, D. P, editor
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Australasia Pacific Extension Network, issuing body
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ISBN |
9780957703070 |
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