Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007

Niedertscheider, Maria; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Müller, Daniel; Erb, Karl‐Heinz

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.06.006

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“…These differences were observed by Macedo (2009), who found 141 kg ha -1 per year in extensive systems, and 518.1 kg ha -1 per year in integrated systems. These results, as well as those of the present study, show the increase of beef production in integrated systems, which is consistent with the new global demand for "sustainable intensification" (Godfray et al, 2010;Niedertscheider et al, 2014).…”

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Performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system and finished in a feedlot

Costa

Barbosa

Alvarenga

et al. 2017

Pesq. agropec. bras.

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-The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system (ICL) and finished in a feedlot, fed either a high-level concentrate diet or whole corn with no roughage. Weaned calves of two breed groups -½ Angus × ½ Nellore, and ½ Charolais × ¼ Angus × ¼ Nellore -were allotted in a completely randomized experimental design (CRD). During the rainy season, the ½ Angus × ½ Nellore animals showed a higher performance than the ½ Charolais × ¼ Angus ×¼ Nellore ones, with 0.748 and 0.490 kg average daily gain, respectively. The productivity in the post-weaning period was 926 kg ha -1 body weight in a 11-month period, in the ICL system. Subsequently, the animals were confined and fed high-concentrate diet or whole corn with no roughage, in a CRD with a 2×2 factorial arrangement. In the feedlot, the ½ Charolais × ¼ Angus × ¼ Nellore animals showed lower values for carcass average daily gain, carcass yield, and slaughter weight than the ½ Angus × ½ Nellore animals. The high productivity in the ICL shows that this strategy, associated with the use of crossbreeding during the post-weaning and finishing stages, can be indicated for the new demand for a sustainable livestock activity.

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“…(1) Mean values followed by equal letters, in the rows, do not differ by the Fisher's test, at 5% probability. CP levels, as described by Moore et al (1991), who considered 7% of CP as the minimum required to meet the needs of ruminal bacteria. Below that level, a decreased consumption of dry matter digestibility of the diet is observed.…”

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Performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system and finished in a feedlot

Costa

Barbosa

Alvarenga

et al. 2017

Pesq. agropec. bras.

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“…This has included studies of global resource use [32,33] as well as of resource use by world regions [34,35], countries [36], and local communities [37,38], (Haas and Andarge, this issue). Data availability differs strongly along these levels of scale, resulting in vast differences in the type of research conducted.…”

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Societal Relations to Nature in Times of Crisis—Social Ecology’s Contributions to Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies

Kramm

Pichler²,

Schaffartzik³

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Abstract:During the second half of the 20th century, the crisis of societal relations to nature emerged as the subject of an international scientific, political, and popular debate. Anthropogenic climate change, loss of biodiversity, resource peaks, or local air and water pollution are symptoms of this crisis. Social ecology provides an inter-and transdisciplinary take on sustainability research and is well-equipped to respond to the research challenges associated with this crisis. Social ecology comprises different schools of thought, of which two initiated this special issue on "State of the Art and Future Prospects" for the research field. The approaches to social ecology of the ISOE-Institute for Social-Ecological Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Institute of Social Ecology (SEC) in Vienna, Austria are based on a common understanding of the challenges posed by social-ecological crises. In how these social ecologies tackle their research questions, conceptual differences become evident. In this article, we provide an overview of social ecology research as it is conducted in Frankfurt and in Vienna. We discuss how this research responds to the ongoing crisis and conclude by identifying important future prospects for social ecology.

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“…Increasing knowledge and technology led to new fertilizers. Industrialized nitrogen production using the Haber-Bosch technology increased cereal yield in Germany between 1918 and 1938 by approximately 50% (Niedertscheider et al 2014). These developments were closely connected to the use of fossil fuels (Schumacher 1993).…”

Section: Transition To the K-phase: Conservation Of Agriculture In Cementioning

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Soil cultures – the adaptive cycle of agrarian soil use in Central Europe: an interdisciplinary study using soil scientific and archaeological research

Teuber¹,

Ahlrichs²,

Henkner³

et al. 2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Today's global challenges (e.g., food security) are not unprecedented in human history. Starting with the Neolithic transition, the agricultural sector and society underwent several cultural and technological changes and endured natural challenges. These challenges and changes are analyzed by using the adaptive cycle metaphor and the social-ecological system as tools to show the complexity of human-environment interactions and their development. The analysis relies on archaeological, pedological, and botanical research, and demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary work. Agrarian soil use as a social-ecological system persisted in Central Europe for 7000 years and underwent an adaptive cycle from the Neolithic transition to industrialization. With agriculture's mechanization, a second adaptive cycle started. The resilience of agrarian soil use for thousands of years shows that agriculture, as a human-environmental interaction, is adaptive to change. Understanding past agricultural challenges and changes using archaeological and soil scientific data puts the present development into a new perspective. A cultural perspective on soils might trigger soil protection and sustainable land use in a technical as well as political domain. Applying social-ecological system and adaptive cycle concepts to this interdisciplinary reconstruction of agrarian soil use illustrates their usefulness for archaeology and soil science.

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Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007

Cited by 62 publications

References 45 publications

Performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system and finished in a feedlot

Performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system and finished in a feedlot

Societal Relations to Nature in Times of Crisis—Social Ecology’s Contributions to Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies

Soil cultures – the adaptive cycle of agrarian soil use in Central Europe: an interdisciplinary study using soil scientific and archaeological research

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Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007

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Performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system and finished in a feedlot

Performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system and finished in a feedlot

Societal Relations to Nature in Times of Crisis—Social Ecology’s Contributions to Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies

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