Joy Tivy, "Agricultural Ecology"

Tivy, Joy, Agricultural Ecology, Longman Scientific & Technical: New York, 1990.
More of an overview of sustainable agricultural practices, Joy Tivy’s book is also a melding of the scientific method of Canter’s Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Activities, and the more critical and polemical approach of Fatal Harvest. Tivy also provides case studies of agricultural systems worldwide, from the rice paddies of southeast Asia, to the fields of Africa. While not necessarily so important to my particular study and research, such data gives a comprehensive examination of how the various economies of agriculture differ from what we see here in the United States. Also, like Fatal Harvest, correlations are drawn between agriculture, be it intensive or not, and conventional or organic, and its effect on the environment. This, unsurprisingly, gives Tivy the room to argue that organic non-intensive agriculture has less of a negative impact on the environment than other forms of farming.