Operationalizing sustainability: an emerging ecophilosophy in Chinese ecological agriculture

ABSTRACT. The sustainable development of agriculture has increas-ingly become an international trend in recent decades. Although this major theme was originated from developed countries, it also has ac-tive responses in developing countries. This paper examines the evo-lution of the ecological agricultural practices in the People’s Republic of China with a focus on the changing underlying eco-philosophy and the broader socio-cultural settings. [Article copies available for a fee fro