TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDowell,R.W.
AU  - McDowell,R.W.
TI  - Environmental impacts of pasture-based farming
SN  - 978-1-84593-411-8
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Wallingford
PB  - :CAB International
KW  - JJ200 - Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy
KW  - JJ600 - Soil Fertility
KW  - PP200 - Water Resources
KW  - PP350 - Grasslands and Rangelands
KW  - PP500 - Meteorology and Climate
KW  - PP600 - Pollution and Degradation
KW  - UU485 - Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
N2  - This book aims to raise awareness among scientists and policy makers of the impacts that grazed grasslands have on the environment. There are 10 chapters entitled: (1) Greenhouse gas emissions; (2) Impacts of pastoral grazing on soil quality; (3) Land-water interactions: impacts on the aquatic environment; (4) Socio-economic issues in pasture-based farming; (5) Impact of livestock grazing on extensively managed grazing lands; (6) Environmental effect of sheep farming; (7) Pressures on beef grazing in mixed production farming; (8) The environmental impacts of non-irrigated, pasture-based dairy farming; (9) Impacts of irrigated dairying on the environment; and (10) The impact of hybrid dairy systems on air, soil and water quality: focus on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling
ER  -