Joshua Farley

University of Vermont | UVM · Department of Community Development and Applied Economics

This study aimed to assess the influence of the high biodiversity silvopastoral system (SPSnu) on the microclimate, pasture production, and pasture chemical composition. Microclimate variables and pasture production and chemical composition were measured in pared paddocks under SPSnu and treeless pasture (TLP) in a commercial farm during four seaso...

Healthy soils are the foundation of our food system and support broad environmental goals, including improved water quality and carbon sequestration. Increasingly we appreciate that aspects of soil health, such as fertility for plants, suppression of disease, and cycling of nutrients, are linked to the functional diversity of soil microbial communi...

Healthy soils are the foundation of our food system and support broad environmental goals, including improved water quality and carbon sequestration. Increasingly, we appreciate that aspects of soil health, such as fertility for plants, suppression of disease, and cycling of nutrients, are linked to the functional diversity of soil microbial commun...

The conflict between food production and environmental conservation demands alternative agriculture practices to maintain or increase food production, protect and restore critical ecosystem processes, and reduce dependence on non-renewable agricultural inputs. Deforestation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, for which agriculture has been a primary drive...

This editorial introduces a special section of the journal on ecological economics: The next 30 years consisting of 20 different articles from a broad range of contributors. It explores common themes from the articles including uncertainty, the normative goals of sustainable scale and just distribution, collective action, co-evolution, transdiscipl...

The quality of a landscape's matrix is a key condition for the conservation of biodiversity and affects the diversity and composition of bird assemblages in agricultural landscapes with forest remnants. In southern Brazil most agricultural landscapes are a mosaic of cultivated areas, treeless pastures and forest remnants. These landscapes must be p...

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a biodiversity hotspot. Efforts to restore the forest must address the tradeoffs facing family farmers. In this paper, we combine literature review and empirical analysis to evaluate the ways in which an agroecological practice – Management Intensive Grazing (MIG) – can contribute to sustainable intensification in southe...

As a discipline, ecological economics is at a turning point and there is a need to develop a new research agenda for ecological economics that will contribute to the creation and adoption of new economic institutions. There are still considerable environmental issues and a new generation of scholars ready to tackle them. In this paper and Special I...

In Santa Rosa de Lima - SC - Brazil, a small municipality in South Region mainly covered by Atlantic Rain Forest, there is an effort to promote agroecology as socio-ecological improvement for family farmers. Part of this effort was conducted with young farmers in a debate about their land-use practices and the consequences of diversifying their act...

Sistemas silvipastoris e o pastoreio racional voisin (PRV) podem elevar a qualidade dos atributos físicos de solos pastoris degradados, aumentando a biodiversidade e a produtividade agrícola. A partir disto, este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos da implantação do sistema silvipastoril com quatro anos com núcleos arbóreos de diversidad...

A delimitação das APPs é um requisito fundamental em diversos processos, tais como o Cadastro Ambiental Rural, o diagnóstico ambiental, o zoneamento ambiental e o Plano de Recuperação Ambiental. Porém, a implementação das definições legais das APPs não é tarefa trivial, dependendo principalmente da representação detalhada da malha hidrográfica. Est...

A agricultura tem se mostrado um dos principais emissores dos gases de efeito estufa (GEE). Grande parte dessa emissão está relacionada ao sistema de produção e/ou manejo inadequado. Este estudo avaliou os efeitos do Sistema Silvipastoril com Núcleos (SSPnúcleos) na massa do dossel forrageiro (pasture cover), e nos estoques de carbono e nitrogênio...

The Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability Workshop (TARDIS) is a meeting on scientific topics related to sustainability. The 2019 workshop theme was "On the Role of Uncertainty in Managing the Earth for Global Sustainability." This paper presents the perspectives on this topic derived from talks and discussions at th...

COVID-19 has shone a bright light on a number of failings and weaknesses in how current economic models handle information and knowledge. Some of these are familiar issues that have long been understood but not acted upon effectively-for example, the danger that current systems of intellectual property and patent protection are actually inimical to...

This chapter describes the latest phase of a participatory action research project initiated in 1990 by the Federal University of Santa Catarina and local farmers in Santa Rosa de Lima, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The Project involved university students and professors, extension agents, agricultural cooperatives and local and state governments. The cu...

Maintaining the growth of agricultural production and reducing the impacts of this production on natural resources has become one of the great challenges of humanity. This research aims to characterize the variation of the bird assembly between pastoral areas and adjacent forest remnants, evaluating the impact of this land use change on birds diver...

This research seeks to understand the dairy sector protagonists about the adoption of silvopastoral systems for shade and synergically rehabilitate the rural landscape of the Atlantic Forest Biome. The study was carried out in the Capital of Agroecology, southern Brazil. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with the main group...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of high biodiversity silvopastoral system (SPSnuclei) on microclimate and thermal comfort index thru a parallel with treeless pasture (TLP) during the four seasons of the year. Three conditions were determined for this study: shadowing area in SPSnuclei, sunny area in SPSnuclei, and sunny area in T...

This work deals with the data integration and the geoprocessing to obtain semi-automated Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs). The objective of this paper is to systematize methodological procedures for delimitation of PPAs from a hydrography. For this, a case study was carried out in Santa Rosa de Lima/SC. In order to delimit the PPAs through Geogr...

It is challenging to reconcile large scale data with the dynamic characteristics present in land use. Such dynamism requires data with a high repetition of sampling. An alternative is the integration of data of high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution, with that of high temporal resolution and low spatial resolution. The aim addressed in...

We respond to ‘The Neoclassical Trojan Horse of Steady-State Economics’ by Pirgmaier (2017) out of concern that it grossly misrepresents the steady state economy (SSE) and promotes needless conflict within the field of ecological economics. In spite of her assertions, we largely agree with Pirgmaier’s solid critique of Neoclassical Economics (NCE)....

It is challenging to reconcile large scale data with the dynamic characteristics present in land use. Such dynamism requires data with a high repetition of sampling. An alternative is the integration of data of high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution, with that of high temporal resolution and low spatial resolution. The aim addressed in...

It is challenging to reconcile large scale data with the dynamic characteristics present in land use. Such dynamism requires data with a high repetition of sampling. An alternative is the integration of data of high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution, with that of high temporal resolution and low spatial resolution. The aim addressed in...

This edited volume is a tribute to the contributions of Herman Daly to the field of ecological economics. It is a companion volume to Farley, J., Malghan, D., 2016. Beyond Uneconomic Growth, in: Van Den Bergh, J.C.J.M., Ruth, M. (Eds.), Advances in Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar, Northhampton, MA.

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have spread rapidly across the globe in the last two decades, emerging as an important alternative to halt deforestation and biodiversity loss. The motivations of farmers to take part in PES programs, however, is still largely unknown. Most of the recent studies on the theme have investigated factors influencin...

In 2014, the International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics, consisting of more than sixty-five associations of economics students from over thirty different countries, issued an open letter, with these opening lines: “It is not only the world economy that is in crisis. The teaching of economics is in crisis too, and this crisis has co...

ECONOMIC GROWTH IS A RECENT PHENOMENON in human history, becoming noticeable within a single lifetime only since the eighteenth century (i.e., since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the development of the modern market economy, and the transition to fossil fuels). Just prior to the Industrial Revolution, it took the English economy more than...

Em um mapeamento de cobertura e uso da terra, o registro dos tipos de cobertura/uso deve, por um lado, seguir um sistema uniforme de classificação visando possibilitar análises comparativas. Além disso, o mapeamento deve adotar a escala " mais compatível " com o nível de detalhamento pretendido. No caso de levantamentos detalhados, tais como mapas...

The economic process transforms raw materials and energy into economic products and waste. On a finite planet, continued economic growth threatens to surpass critical socio-ecological thresholds and undermine ecosystem services upon which humans and all other species depend. For most systems, whether such thresholds exist, where they lie and whethe...

This engaging book brings together leading ecological economists to collectively present a definitive case for looking beyond economic growth as the sole panacea for the world’s ecological predicament. Grounded in physics, ecology, and the science of human behavior, contributors show how economic growth itself has become “uneconomic” and adds to a...

Ultrasociality, as expressed in agricultural, monetary, and fossil fuel economies, has spurred exponential growth in population and in resource use that now threaten civilization. These threats take the form of prisoner's dilemmas. Avoiding collapse requires more cooperative economic organization that must be informed by knowledge of human behavior...

Contemporary society is characterized by faith in the technological paradigm as a solution to economic, social and environmental challenges. This has led to a lack of critical analysis towards the contradictions inherent to production systems. In the primary sector, this phenomenon is expressed by the creation of a productivist ideology in which “p...

The Atlantic Forest is a global hotspot of biodiversity that may be on the verge of ecological collapse. Current changes in forest legislation have increased the debate concerning policy impacts on land-use and the consequences for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision. This paper evaluates the impact of three environmental pol...

Alarms are being sounded around the globe over the increasing commercialization of public knowledge for private profit. Whether you are a farmer, a medical patient, or a library user, these developments impact your daily life. Knowledge privatization holds growing sway over the choice of the foods you eat, the medicine you take, the software you us...

Palm heart from juçara palm (Euterpe edulis) has been one of the most important non-timber forest products (NTFPs) from the Brazilian Atlantic forest since 1960s, but overharvesting, among other factors, drove the species near to extinction. However, the recent conversion from extraction of hearts of palm to berries harvesting for pulp production,...

The Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) is an economic tool that aims to promote conservation, recovery and sustainable management of the environment. Its use is recommended due to the urgent need for reducing or stopping the human impacts on the environment. In light of the serious threats to Brazil’s environment wealth, this article aims to anal...

Both private and public sectors have failed to adequately provide critical ecosystem goods and services or an equitable distribution of wealth and income. To address this problem, the Vermont legislature is considering the creation of a Vermont Common Assets Trust (VCAT) that would make the state's atmosphere, aquifers and other resources created b...

The production of ecosystem goods and services has increased significantly in the last 100 years, while the capacity of ecosystems to generate supporting and regulating services has decreased. In this context, agriculture and livestock production have become major concerns. At the same time, livestock, particularly dairy cows, play a key role and c...

Both economists and conservationists are calling for expanded use of market-based instruments (MBIs) to address worsening environmental problems, but the lack of MBIs at the scale required to solve major global problems makes it difficult to empirically evaluate their effectiveness. This article indirectly evaluates MBIs for essential ecosystem ser...

The human system, driven largely by economic decisions, has profoundly affected planetary ecosystems as well as the energy supplies and natural resources essential to economic production. The challenge of sustainability is to understand and manage the complex interactions between human systems and the rest of nature. This conceptual article makes t...

The production of goods and services increased 36 times in the last hundred years, 9 times per capita, while the capacity of ecosystems to generate essential services decreased. Due to destabilization of global ecosystems, agriculture has become one of the villains of the Anthropocene. In this context, livestock must be better evaluated. Fifty-two...

There are no longer acceptable trade-offs between agriculture and ecosystem services: Both are essential and at risk. Agroecology may be uniquely capable of providing both. However, there are real costs to promoting agroecology that someone must pay, but any payment scheme must recognize that many of the services provided as well as the resources r...

Current macroeconomic policy promotes continuous economic growth. Unemployment, poverty and debt are associated with insufficient growth. Economic activity depends upon the transformation of natural materials, ultimately returning to the environment as waste. Current levels of economic throughput exceed the planet's carrying capacity. As a result o...

Building a green economy confronts two critical and conflicting scale issues. To avoid environmental catastrophes, we must dramatically reduce throughput—carbon emissions alone must fall by over 80%. However, modern economies are so dependent on fossil fuels and other forms of throughput that far more modest reductions could result in economic cata...

We analyzed how three different dairy management systems –continuous grazing, confinement and management intensive grazing-compare across nine sustainability indicators set by the Dairy Stewardship Alliance. A self-assessment survey comprising animal husbandry, biodiversity, energy, community health, farm financials, nutrient, pest, water and soil...

The Atlantic Forest is a highly diverse biome, extending from the northeast to the south of Brazil. The diversity of elevation and climate of this biome allows for extraordinary biodiversity with high levels of endemism (Tabarelli et al. 2005). The original territory of the Atlantic Forest contains 65% of the Brazilian population, providing fundame...

Valuation is about tradeoffs between alternative options, regardless of whether these tradeoffs are consciously made or not. Natural capital contributes substantially to societal and individual well-being by sustaining economies, generating life support functions and innumerable amenities, and assimilating waste. Societies that rely on the market s...

Grass based agroecologic dairying to revitalize small family farms throughout student technical support: The development of a participative methodology responsible for 622 family farm projects – CORRIGENDUM - Volume 1 Issue 2 - F. Abdon Schmitt, Willian Murphy, Joshua Farley

Citation: Meir, P., Mitchell, A., Marengo, J., Young, C., Poveda, G., Llerena, C.A., Rival, L., Meneses, L., Hall, A., Betts, R., Farley, J., Fordham, S., Trivedi, M. 2011. Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation in Amazonia. Global Canopy Programme and University of Edinburgh, UK. This report summarises the work of a capacity-building project...

Volume 12 Ecological Economics of Estuaries and Coasts 12.01 Ecological Economics of Estuaries and Coasts 1 M van den Belt 12.02 What Are Ecosystem Services? 15 R de Groot 12.03 Valuation of Coastal Ecosystem Services 35 M van den Belt, V Forgie, and J Farley 12.04 Environmental Benefit Transfers of Ecosystem Service Valuation 55 S Liu, R Porte...

Grass based agroecologic dairying to revitalize small family farms throughout student technical support: The development of a participative methodology responsible for 622 family farm projects - Volume 1 Issue 2 - F. Abdon Schmitt, Willian Murphy, Joshua Farley

An international payment for ecosystem service (IPES) schemes may be one of the only mechanisms available to stimulate the provision of vital non-marketed ecosystem services at the global level, as those nations that benefit from global ecosystem services (GES) cannot readily force other sovereign nations to provide them. Currently, international t...

It is widely acknowledged that transformation of a society towards a sustainable pattern demands an effective collaboration of all stakeholders and intensive knowledge exchange within a well-known triangle academia-business-society Jared Diamond—focus instead on complexity. Indeed, education and training is a main driving force of society reshaping...

Environmental assets are the goods and services, that can beused or purchased to generate the preservation and restoration the environment. This study assessed the magnitude of environmental services resulting from the implementation of milk production under Voisin management intensive grazing (MIG). The study was conducted in southern Santa Catari...

This chapter discusses all the anthropocentric definitions of sustainability and focuses on sustaining an acceptable level of human quality of life (QOL). Within the dominant ideology of free market capitalism, reducing wealth and resource consumption also reduces QOL within a generation. It appears that excessive resource consumption on the part o...

Enhancing and sustaining the quality of human life is a primary goal of environmental, economic, and social policy. But how do we define and measure quality of life (QOL)? How is QOL distributed among people in the current generation and among the current and future generations? How do we model the dependence of QOL on the full range of environment...