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Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability : A Farming Systems Analysis.
Title:
Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability : A Farming Systems Analysis.
Author:
Filson, Glen.
ISBN:
9780774851183
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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