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OverviewFocusing on the different types of pastoral farming and their impact on the environment, Environmental Impacts of Pasture-based Farming takes a broad view of the subject, whose treatment in texts is often biased towards confined animal or grain based systems. The text is organised into two sections, the first addressing issues facing environmental quality, namely soil, water and air quality and socio-economic impacts. The second section offers commentary on how pastoral sectors influence environmental issues. With highly tuned farm productive systems comes the risk of environmental impacts, and the purpose of this text is to highlight the areas in which these risks are associated and how best to mitigate them. An approach is taken that highlights these problems, but also keeps in mind that mitigation may be too restrictive on the farming system and make farming impractical. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard McDowell (Lincoln University, New Zealand) , Richard McDowell (AgResearch Limited, New Zealand)Publisher: CABI Publishing Imprint: CABI Publishing Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.860kg ISBN: 9781845934118ISBN 10: 1845934113 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 26 November 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock ![]() The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsSection 1: Environmental Problems 1.1: Air: Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1.2: Soil: Soil Quality 1.3: Water: Land-Water Interactions 1.4: Socioeconomic: Socioeconomic Aspects of Soil/Water/Air Quality Problems Section 2: Impacts of Pastoral Farming Systems 2.1: Rangeland Beef 2.2: Intensive and Extensive Sheep 2.3: Dryland Dairy 2.4: Irrigated Dairy 2.5: Mixed Confined/Grazing DairyReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |