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Marilyn Holly is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida. Her special interests include political philosophy, ethics and ecology, Jungian thought, and Native American spirituality in its relation to the environment. She is currently at work on a monograph-length piece on the latter topic. She has taught an undergraduate course in ethics and ecology, and plans to do so again. The following essay emerged from her search for a suitable text for such a course.
Carla Kirts is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former vocational agriculture teacher. Two of the university courses she teaches on a regular basis are Conservation of Natural Resources and Agricultural Concepts and Techniques. She also advises and consults with Alaska vocational agriculture teachers.
Yvonne Everett has a Masters degree in forest ecology from UC Berkeley and is now continuing on at Berkeley, working on a Ph.D. in agroforestry with a focus on forest gardens in highland Sri Lanka.
Jan L. Flora is a Professor of Sociology and Acting Director of the Kansas Center for Rural Initiatives at Kansas State University. His research interests focus on community change and the structure of agriculture in the United States and in developing countries.
Dr. David O. Hansen is Associate Dean for International Programs in Agriculture and Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. His areas of research interest include rural stratification systems and rural development. He is well published on his research in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Cornelia Butler Flora is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Kansas State University. Her current work involves examination of the interaction of policy, the structure of agriculture, and rural communities in the U.S. and in developing countries.
John Hayward was born and educated in Britain, receiving his M.Sc. in entomology from the University of Nottingham and a Ph.D. in agricultural biology from the University of Reading. He worked for seventeen years in Africa doing research on crop protection, and was heavily involved in agricultural extension and training at all levels from university to farmers. Since 1980, Dr. Hayward has worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., focusing on agricultural development in Asia and Africa. He is currently responsible for formulating the Bank's policy on agricultural extension.
David Haenke is an organizer, writer, and theoretician for the bioregional and wider ecological movements, and the Coordinator of the Bioregional Project of New Life Farm, Inc. He lives and works in the Ozarks Bioregion.
Alessandro Bonanno is Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His primary areas of interest are Sociology of Agriculture, Regional/International Development and the Role of the State. Recent publications includeSmall Farms: Persistence with Legitimation (Westview Press).
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Holly, M., Kirts, C.A., Everett, Y. et al. Book reviews. Agric Hum Values 5, 57–78 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02217649
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