Intensive agriculture and sustainability : a farming systems analysis /

"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. Intensi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Filson, Glen C., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, ©2004.
Colección:Sustainability and the environment.
Temas:
Agricultural intensification > Ontario.
Factory farms > Environmental aspects > Ontario.
Factory farms > Social aspects > Ontario.
Agricultural systems > Research > Ontario.
Sustainable agriculture > Ontario.
Livestock farms > Environmental aspects > Ontario.
Livestock farms > Social aspects > Ontario.
Intensification agricole > Ontario.
Fermes d'élevage > Aspect de l'environnement > Ontario.
Fermes d'élevage > Aspect social > Ontario.
Systèmes agricoles > Recherche > Ontario.
Agriculture durable > Ontario.
Agricultural intensification
Agricultural systems > Research
Factory farms > Environmental aspects
Sustainable agriculture
Intensivlandwirtschaft
Landwirtschaft
Nachhaltigkeit
Produktionssystem
Intensieve veehouderij.
Duurzame landbouw.
Ecologische aspecten.
Ontario
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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