Sustainable Development Of Agriculture In Karst Areas: A Practical And Theoretical Approach

Study on agricultural sustainable development has been paid attention to since 1980s. In more than 20 years, the scholars both in home and abroad have done a great deal on it, and already developed some theories and special approaches. But studies on sustainable development of agriculture in Karst areas are still at the beginning. No systemic and deep insights study has been done, while limited articles only considered single aspect of it. In this dissertation, I focus on sustainable development of agriculture in Karst areas. Based on theories of Ecology Economics, Regional Economics, Strategy Management, Agriculture Economy and Management and Circle Economics, considering the backgrounds of globalization, the great development in China's West and the sustainable , rapid development of China; from the reality in Karst areas; applying approaches of qualitative analysis and quantitive analysis, theoretical study combined with empirical study, this dissertation tries to give a systematic study and some deep insights into sustainable development of agriculture in Karst areas.Partâ… introducesthis study's purpose and its importance as well as the foundation to set forth views. I master the research clue by reviewing studies on the backgrounds, trends, tendency and focus of agricultural sustainable development. At the same time, I introduce the contents and the approaches of this article in this part.Partâ…¡includes 3 segments. Firstly, I review the regional economy development theories and draw inspiration from them. Secondly, I discuss the definition, connotation and the background of agriculture sustainable development. Thirdly, I analyse the theoretical foundations of agricultural sustainable development which include population bearing capacity, agriculture system, ecological economy and system control and so on. In this segments, I also elaborate the relationship between sustainable agriculture and agriculture sustainable development.Partâ…¢is about the relationship between the multi-functions of agriculture and sustainable agriculture. I give the concept, connotation, value and meaning of agriculture of multi-functions. Then by analysis the relationship between them, I point out the sustainable developing routes based on the multi-functions of agriculture.Partâ…£introduces Karst topography's distribution in the world, clearly points out the region of this dissertation is in Qian-Dian-Gui (which lies in the areas of Guizhou province, Yunnan province and Guangxi province of China.). I analyse favorable Conditions and difficulties of agricultural Sustainable development in Karst area in five aspects including population, economy, society, resource and environment. Partâ…¤includes 4 portions. The first portion is theories and principles to construct index system to evaluate agricultural sustainable development in Karst area. The second is the index system made up of 27 indexes. The third confirms the reference standards and weights of the indexes. The forth chooses the assembled estimating model and approaches to prove it.Partâ…¥makes up of 3 sections. At first, I bring up the developing strategy, principles, purpose and routes. Secondly, the pattern of economy agriculture development is chosen. At last, 6 strategic keystones are stressed.Partâ…¦analyses conditions of agriculture in Guizhou province, compares its overall strength in agriculture with the other 11 provinces of China's west, then uses assembled estimating model to give a vertical evaluation of Guizhou's agriculture sustainable development, also compare it with Yunnan, Guangxi and the average level of China, then proves the evaluations and analyse the outcomes. At last, this part analyses the main limiting factors for Guizhou's agricultural sustainable development in 4 aspects, and gives 7 pieces of suggestion.Partâ…§summarizes innovation points in 5 aspects of this dissertation and gives some suggestion in 4 aspects for further study.