Integrating Research on Food and the Environment: an Exit Strategy from the Rational Fool Syndrome in Agricultural Science
The thesis of this paper is that the "rational fool" syndrome can be applied to mainstream public sector agricultural research that is conducted in a way that is rational in the short term, but acts against its own long-term viability. Historically, a main concern of such research has been...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2002-01-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol5/iss2/art20/ |