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Information Systems for Grassroots Sustainable Agriculture.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Information Systems for Grassroots Sustainable Agriculture./
作者:	Norton, Juliet Nicole Pumphrey.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	293 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10B.
標題:	Ecology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13808140
ISBN:	9781392071168

Information Systems for Grassroots Sustainable Agriculture.
Norton, Juliet Nicole Pumphrey.

Information Systems for Grassroots Sustainable Agriculture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 293 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Scientists widely accept that modern agriculture is unsustainable, but the best methods for addressing unsustainability are still contested (Constance, Konefal, and Hatanaka 2018). Grassroots sustainable agriculture communities have long participated in the exploration of solutions for agriculture unsustainability, and their momentum continues to grow in the technical age. Practitioners of grassroots sustainable agriculture use many information systems that were not originally built to support the design of agricultural systems. Based on ethnographic research with two grassroots sustainable agriculture communities, I show that participants' personal and community values frequently clashed with those embedded in information systems, including ones used to look for and manage plant information. Furthermore, I demonstrate a range of information challenges that participants faced in the absence of tools designed to support their specific work. I argue that practitioners of grassroots sustainable agriculture need information systems tailored to their goals and values in order to productively address barriers to designing and building agroecosystems for their communities. This dissertation provides an example of how to involve communities in the development of information technology artifacts and strengthen efforts to support sustainability via technological interventions. First, I engaged in two grassroots sustainable agriculture communities as a participant, experiencing their practices, values, and information challenges first hand. Then, I worked with the communities to create a plant database web application (SAGE Plant Database) that supports agroecosystem design in local contexts. Members of the communities participated in the design, development, and data population stages so that the SAGE Plant Database supports their design context and upholds their technological and holistic sustainability values. At the foundation of the database is a plant ontology grounded in the participants' practice of designing agroecosystems. My comparative analysis of the design of the SAGE Plant Database to other databases demonstrates its relevance due to its emphasis on agroecological relationships among plants and between plants and the environment, the inclusion of ethnobotanical data, and the embedded community values. By engaging in this research, I seek to make progress towards transforming the technology-supported food system into one that furthers food security, food sovereignty, and holistic sustainability.

ISBN: 9781392071168Subjects--Topical Terms:

516476
Ecology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Agroecology

Information Systems for Grassroots Sustainable Agriculture.
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