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Intensive agriculture and sustainability : a farming systems analysis / edited by Glen C. Filson.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Filson, Glen C., 1947-
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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