商品簡介
The authors of this extensive reference discuss how rural policy makers and stakeholders can take advantage of information and communications technologies (ICT) to sustainably manage agricultural and natural resources. They address how ICT can encourage public governance and rural decision making, how supply chain and agricultural informatics tools and techniques can improve agriculture management, and how ICT can be particularly useful for environmental, resource, and ecosystem management and for geospatial landscape planning. Editors Andreopoulou (forest informatics, Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece), Manos (agricultural economics, Aristotle U.), Polman (Wageningen University, The Netherlands), Viaggi (agricultural economics, U. of Bologna, Italy), and 61 co-authors contributed to the book. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)