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New Tools and Approaches for Land Evaluation Nouveaux outils et nouvelles approches pour l'évaluation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bouma, Johan |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Abstract | Any announcement of a discussion on new tools and approaches justifies a dose of scepticism in any science. Often, glitzy new techniques are being pursued while existing, proven approaches are ignored, even though they can be applied very succesfully to current problems. Tools and approaches become easily an objective in themselves so in this invited paper I will be quite aware of this potential trap. In fact, rather than jump directly into a discussion of tools and approaches, we need to ascertain the needs of society which should constitute the very basis for our activities. Here, land evaluation has only a modest track record. Procedures have been top-down , allowing little interaction with stakeholders and colleagues from other professions, such as economists, agronomists, ecologists and many others that have an interest in the land. Of course, our definitions indicate the need for interdisciplinarity and for interaction. Unfortunately, reality has turned out to be rather different and our products tend to be pedocentric. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to discuss: (i) modern needs for land evaluation at different scales; (ii) interaction with the social and economic sciences, and (iii) promising tools and techniques. Finally attention will be paid to land evaluation in developing countries. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.natres.psu.ac.th/Link/SoilCongress/bdd/symp35/1276-t.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
