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Intensive agriculture and sustainability : a farming systems analysis / edited by Glen C. Filson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sustainability and the environment.
- Sustainability and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural intensification--Ontario.
- Agricultural intensification.
- Factory farms--Environmental aspects--Ontario.
- Factory farms.
- Factory farms--Social aspects--Ontario.
- Agricultural systems--Research--Ontario.
- Agricultural systems.
- Sustainable agriculture--Ontario.
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An analysis of intensive agriculture and sustainable farming examining food quality, manure runoff, greenhouse gases, extra-label use of antibiotics, pesticide use, and rural conflict.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part 1: Issues and Overview
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Environmental Problems Associated with Intensive Agriculture
- 3 Social Implications of Intensive Agriculture
- Part 2: Framework and Linkages
- 4 FSR Concepts and Methods for Addressing Social and Environmental Problems
- 5 Developing Predictive and Summative Indicators to Model Farming Systems Components
- 6 Modelling Farming System Linkages
- Part 3: Applications of the Framework and Linkages for Solving Sustainability- Related Problems of Intensive Agriculture
- 7 A Whole-Farm Systems Approach to Modelling Sustainable Manure Management on Intensive Swine- Finishing Farms
- 8 Balancing Environmental and Economic Concerns in Manure Management by Use of an On- Farm Computerized Decision Support Program, MCLONE4
- 9 Challenges Awaiting the Dairy Industry as a Result of Its Management Decision Environment
- 10 Water Quality Initiatives in the Crowfoot Creek Watershed, Alberta
- 11 The Ontario Environmental Farm Plan: A Whole- Farm System Approach to Participatory Environmental Management for Agriculture
- Part 4: Lessons Learned
- 12 Integrating Farming Systems Analysis of Intensive Farming
- Glossary
- References
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [198]-212.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-5118-X
- OCLC:
- 180772842
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