Preface -- Introduction -- Ethics structure and goals -- The emergence of ecological awareness -- Development of ecological awareness -- The emergence of ecosystem theory -- The ecosystem concept -- The establishment of the ecosystem theory -- Research and education -- International policy and ecological economics -- Ethics of sustainable development -- Natural capital, ecosystem services and ecological footprint -- The role of education -- Agriculture and sustainable development -- Agroecosystem epistemology and ontology -- Energetics -- Matter cycling -- Biodiversity -- Sustainable agriculture -- Site-specificity and tradition -- Domestication and adaptation -- Terracing for ecosystem domestication -- Sustainable agriculture as a turning point of the human predicament -- Agroecology as a transdisciplinary field of cooperation -- Ecological intensification principles and practices -- Ecological intensification through planned biodiversity -- Ecological intensification: the role of hedgerows -- Valuing the performances of agroecosystem ecological intensification -- Institutional patterns of agriculture ecological intensification in Europe: the role of Universities -- Indicators of ecological intensification in contrasting farming systems -- Ecological intensification in animal husbandry -- Ecological intensification of human diet -- Ecological intensification in theology of creation and food ethics -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.