Intensive agriculture and sustainability : a farming systems analysis

Author(s)

• Filson, Glen C.

Bibliographic Information

Intensive agriculture and sustainability : a farming systems analysis

edited by Glen C. Filson

（Sustainability and the environment）

UBC Press, c2004

• :: bound
• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-212) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability outlines theadvantages of Farming Systems Analysis for understanding theimplications of modern, intensive agriculture. This book describes someof the major environmental and social problems connected with intensivefarming; outlines a framework for analyzing its sustainability;discusses key linkages among the environmental, economic, and socialindicators; outlines modelling trade-offs between profitability andenvironmental sustainability; and then analyzes various farming systemsusing case studies.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables Foreword / Murray H. Miller Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1: Issues and Book Overview 1. Introduction / Glen C. Filson 2. Environmental Problems Associated with Intensive Agriculture /Glen C. Filson 3. Social Implications of Intensive Agriculture / Glen C.Filson Part 2: Framework and Linkages 4. FSR Concepts and Methods for Addressing Social and EnvironmentalProblems / John Smithers, Ellen Wall, and Clarence Swanton 5. Developing Predictive and Summative Indicators to Model FarmingSystems / Mike J. Goss, John R. Ogilvie, Glen C. Filson, Dean A.Barry, and Santiago Olmos 6. Modeling Farming System Linkages / Alfons Weersink, ScottJeffrey, and David Pannell Part 3: Applications of the Framework and Linkages forSolving Sustainability-Related Problems of IntensiveAgriculture 7. A Whole-Farm Systems Approach to Modelling Sustainable ManureManagement on Intensive Swine Finishing Farms / D.P. Stonehouse,G.W. de Vos, and A. Weersink 8. Balancing Environmental and Economic Concerns in ManureManagement by Use of an On-Farm Computerized Decision Support Program,MCLONE4 / John R. Ogilvie, Dean A. Barry, Mike J. Goss, and D.P.Stonehouse 9. Challenges Awaiting the Dairy Industry as the Result of itsManagement Decision Environment / Wayne C. Pfeiffer and Glen C.Filson 10. Water Quality Initiatives in the Crowfoot Creek Watershed,Alberta / Georgina Knitel and Alfons Weersink 11. The Ontario Environmental Farm Plan: A Whole-Farm SystemApproach to Participatory Environmental Management for Agriculture /John FitzGibbon, Ryan Plummer, and Robert Summers Part 4: Lessons Learned 12. Integrating Farming Systems Analysis of Intensive Farming /Glen C. Filson and Chris Duke Glossary References Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA70669272
• ISBN:
  • 0774811048
  • 0774811056
• Country Code: cn
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Vancouver
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 227 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33207314