Sustainability

Listed are various terms synonymous with sustainability. Use different terms when searching databases, and catalogs. From Virginia Tech’s Sustainability Research Guide.

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Movements

• Agrarian
• Agrarianism
• Agricultural ecology
• Agricultural land
• Agri-environmental indicator
• Agrobiodiversity
• Agroecology
• Agroecosystems
• Agroforestry
• Agroforestry systems
• Agropastoral systems
• Alternative agriculture
• Alternative farming
• Animal ecology
• Appropriate technology
• Arthropoda as biological pest control agents
• Bacterial diversity
• Best management practices (pollution prevention)
• Bio-control
• Biodiversity
• Biodynamic farming or agriculture
• Biofertilizers
• Biointensive gardening
• Biointensive integrated pest management
• Biological control
• Biological control agents
• Biological diversity
• Biological farming or agriculture
• Biological indicators
• Biological pest control agents
• Biologically integrated farming systems
• Bonemeal
• Bufferstrips
• Carbon footprint (CF)
• Carbon sequestration
• Carrying capacity
• Community food system
• Community gardens
• Community life
• Community-based agriculture
• Community-based economics
• Community-supported agriculture (CSA)
• Compost
• Conservation
• Conservation buffers
• Conservation tillage
• Controlled grazing
• Crops — ecology
• Dendroecology
• Direct agricultural markets
• Eco-agriculture
• Ecological farming
• Ecological farming or agriculture
• Ecological footprint (ef)
• Ecosystems
• Environmental indicators
• Externalities
• Externalities (economic)
• Family farms
• Farmers markets
• Farmers’ markets
• Farmland preservation
• Farmland protection
• Field crops — ecology
• Food chains
• Food circle
• Food consumption
• Food cooperatives (co-ops)
• Food miles
• Food patriotism
• Food policy
• Food security
• Food supply
• Food webs
• Foodshed
• Foodways (food symbolism and traditions)
• Garden ecology
• Good agricultural practices (gap)
• Grass farming or agriculture
• Grass-based farming or agriculture
• Grassland management
• Grasslands
• Grazing intensity
• Grazing systems
• Green manuring
• Green politics
• High-intensity, low-frequency grazing (hilf)
• Holistic management (HM)
• Holistic range management
• Holistic resource management (hrm)
• Human ecology
• Humus
• Integrated agricultural systems
• Integrated pest management
• Intensive grazing
• Kyusei nature farming or agriculture
• Land use and sustainability
• Life cycle and (environmental assessment or environmental impact)
• Life cycle assessment
• Local food movement
• Local food system
• Local foods
• Local independent processors
• Localist agriculture
• Low input agriculture
• Low input sustainable agriculture (LISA)
• Management intensive grazing (MIG)
• Manures
• Market gardens
• Microenvironments
• Mini-farming
• Natural farming or agriculture
• Natural foods
• Natural grasslands
• Natural products in agriculture
• Nematoda as biological pest control agents
• Nutrient balance
• Nutrient content
• Nutrient management
• Organic dairy farming
• Organic farming
• Organic fertilizers
• Organic foods
• Organic production
• Pasture based farming or agriculture
• Pastures
• Permaculture
• Permanent grasslands
• Pests — integrated control
• Plant communities
• Plant diversity
• Plant ecology
• Precision agriculture
• Precision farming
• Product life cycle
• Regenerative agriculture or farming
• Regional food
• Resource management
• Restoration ecology
• Rhizosphere
• Rotational grazing
• Rural sustainability
• Seed savers
• Slow food
• Small farms
• Soil air
• Soil bacteria
• Soil biology
• Soil ecology
• Soil organic matter
• Soils
• Species diversity
• Suburban agriculture
• Sustainable agriculture
• Sustainable development
• Sustainable forestry
• Sustainable horticulture
• Sustainable tourism
• Time-controlled grazing (TCG)
• Urban agriculture
• Voisin management grazing
• Weed control
• Weeds — biological control
• Weeds — integrated control