Tales of Tropical Plant Diseases in an Age of Climate Change: A View of Sustainability Based on Complexity Science
暫譯: 氣候變遷時代的熱帶植物病害故事：基於複雜科學的可持續性觀點
Chin, Khoon
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商品描述
This book offers a global perspective on major tropical crops, exploring their role in food production and the threats plant diseases pose to their productivity. Drawing from the author's diverse experiences as a plant pathologist across Asia, Europe, the US, and Latin America, as well as his work as an independent research consultant on complexity science, the book offers both professional insights and personal reflections.
Narratives have long been a powerful tool for human communication, often more knowledge-dense than any other form of exchange. The use of stories in this book serves three main purposes. First, complexity theory suggests that reflecting on others' stories can inspire scientists to form fresh perspectives and unique insights based on their own knowledge and experiences. This process may even help people "know what they didn't know they knew," a concept popular in knowledge management circles. Complexity practice takes this further by helping scientists uncover what they "didn't know they didn't know"-a crucial element for advancing research rather than simply investigation.
Second, today's students often report learning more from the personal experiences of their teachers than from mere facts. Traditional, encyclopedic texts leave little room for the self-learning practices that are central to modern education. Stories, by contrast, are an effective way of conveying experiential or tacit knowledge, which is often more valuable in real-world contexts.
Additionally, the use of narratives and visuals makes phytopathology more accessible for broader audience interested in sustainability, biodiversity, food security, biosecurity, regenerative agriculture, resilience, climate change, new technologies, and public policy.
The final chapter ties the book together by focusing on sustainability and ecosystem services for the future. It also provides an extensively researched library of references on the management of tropical crop diseases, offering quick access to essential facts in the appendices.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書提供了對主要熱帶作物的全球視角，探討它們在食品生產中的角色以及植物疾病對其生產力所構成的威脅。作者作為植物病理學家在亞洲、歐洲、美國和拉丁美洲的多元經歷，以及他作為獨立研究顧問在複雜科學方面的工作，使這本書提供了專業見解和個人反思。
敘事長期以來一直是人類溝通的強大工具，往往比其他任何形式的交流更具知識密度。本書中故事的使用有三個主要目的。首先，複雜性理論表明，反思他人的故事可以激勵科學家根據自己的知識和經驗形成新的視角和獨特見解。這一過程甚至可能幫助人們「知道他們不知道的事情」，這是一個在知識管理圈中流行的概念。複雜性實踐進一步幫助科學家揭示他們「不知道他們不知道的事情」——這是推進研究而不僅僅是調查的關鍵要素。
其次，當今的學生經常報告說，從教師的個人經歷中學到的東西比單純的事實更多。傳統的百科全書式文本幾乎沒有空間留給現代教育中至關重要的自我學習實踐。相比之下，故事是一種有效傳達經驗性或隱性知識的方式，這在現實世界的情境中往往更具價值。
此外，敘事和視覺的使用使植物病理學對於對可持續性、生物多樣性、食品安全、生物安全、再生農業、韌性、氣候變化、新技術和公共政策感興趣的更廣泛受眾變得更加可接觸。
最後一章通過聚焦於未來的可持續性和生態系統服務將全書串聯起來。它還提供了一個經過廣泛研究的熱帶作物疾病管理參考文獻庫，並在附錄中提供了快速訪問基本事實的途徑。
作者簡介
Dr Khoon Chin holds a BSc Hons degree in Agricultural Botany (Reading University, UK) and a PhD in Plant Pathology and Population Genetics (Cambridge, UK), as well as an MSc of USM, Malaysia. He has had a lifelong global career as a research and teaching phytopathologist, working for national and international institutions and for industry, in both the tropics and temperate regions. He was formerly a Bye-Fellow of Downing College UK, Visiting Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute ROP, lecturer at the Bern Fachhochschule for Agriculture (HAFL, CH), and an editor of Plant Pathology (Blackwells) Journal of the British Society of Plant Pathology. He has written well over a hundred publications in refereed journals and lectured widely as an invited/keynote speaker in international and national symposia in EU, USA, Asia and Latin America. He is also accredited to the Cynefin Center for research on complexity science and was for 8 years a consultant for complexity areas of business management for industry.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
鍾建輝博士擁有英國雷丁大學的農業植物學榮譽學士學位，以及英國劍橋大學的植物病理學和種群遺傳學博士學位，並且擁有馬來西亞國立大學的碩士學位。他在全球的研究和教學植物病理學家生涯中，曾為國內外機構及產業工作，涵蓋熱帶和溫帶地區。他曾擔任英國唐寧學院的副研究員、國際稻米研究所的訪問科學家、瑞士伯恩農業專科大學的講師，以及英國植物病理學會的《植物病理學》期刊編輯。他在經過審核的期刊上發表了超過一百篇的出版物，並在歐盟、美國、亞洲和拉丁美洲的國際和國內研討會上廣泛擔任受邀/主題演講者。他還獲得了Cynefin中心的複雜科學研究認證，並在業界擔任了八年的商業管理複雜性領域顧問。
