| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 227 pages) : illustrations |
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Sustainability and the environment |
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Sustainability and the environment.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Glen C. Filson -- Environmental problems associated with intensive agriculture / Glen C. Filson -- Social implications of intensive agriculture / Glen C. Filson FSR concepts and methods for addressing social and environmental problems / John Smithers, Ellen Wall, and Clarence Swanton -- Developing predictive and summative indicators to model farming systems components / Michael J. Goss, Ö [and others] -- Modelling farming system linkages / Alfons Weersink, Scott Jeffrey, and David Pannell --A whole-farm systems approach to modelling sustainable manure management on intensive swine-finishing farms / D.P. Stonehouse, G.W. de Vos, and A. Weersink -- Balancing environmental and economic concerns in manure management by use of an on-farm computerized decision support program, MCLONE4 / John R. Ogilvie, Ö [and others] -- Challenges awaiting the dairy industry as a result of its management decision environment / Wayne C. Pfeiffer and Glen C. Filson -- Water quality initiatives in the crowfoot creek watershed, Alberta / Georgina Knitel and Alfons Weersink -- The Ontario environmental farm plan: a whole-farm system approach to participatory environmental management for agriculture / John FitzGibbon, Ryan Plummer, and Robert Summers -- Integrating farming systems analysis of intensive farming / Glen C. Filson and Chris Duke |
| Summary |
"As globalization restructures agriculture and rural communities, the impacts of increasingly industrialized farming have captured public attention. Concerns are mounting about food quality, manure runoff, greenhouse gases, extra-label use of antibiotics, pesticides, and rural conflict. Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability outlines the advantages of farming systems analysis for understanding the implications of modern, intensive agriculture and for evaluating its sustainability." "The magnitude and complexity of the problems posed by modern, intensive agriculture make interdisciplinary analyses of the linkages among the social, environmental, and economic aspects of farming ever more vital. This book moves the discussion in new directions and will appeal to field practitioners, agricultural and environmental policy analysts, geographers, and to those scholars and students weary of the production-oriented disciplinary focus that typifies most agricultural research."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-212) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Agricultural intensification -- Ontario
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Factory farms -- Environmental aspects -- Ontario
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Factory farms -- Social aspects -- Ontario
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Agricultural systems -- Research -- Ontario
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Sustainable agriculture -- Ontario
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Livestock farms -- Environmental aspects -- Ontario
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Livestock farms -- Social aspects -- Ontario
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Agricultural intensification
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Agricultural systems -- Research
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Factory farms -- Environmental aspects
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Sustainable agriculture
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Intensivlandwirtschaft
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Landwirtschaft
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Produktionssystem
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Intensieve veehouderij.
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Duurzame landbouw.
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Ecologische aspecten.
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Ontario
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Filson, Glen C., 1947-
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| ISBN |
0774811048 |
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9780774811040 |
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077485118X |
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9780774851183 |
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