Environmental impacts of pasture-based farming
By: edited by: R.W. McDowell.
Contributors: McDowell, Richard W.
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845934118
Subjects: Pastures -- Environmental aspects; Grazing -- Environmental aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Greenhouse gas emissions / C.A.M. de Klein, C. Pinares-Patino and G.C. Waghorn; title: Impacts of pastoral grazing on soil quality / S.P. Cuttle; title: Land-water interactions: impacts on the aquatic environment / R.J. Wilcock; title: Socioeconomic issues in pasture-based farming / D. Bewsell and C. Dake; title: Impact of livestock grazing on extensively-managed grazing lands / W.H. Schacht and P.E. Reece; title: Environmental effects of sheep farming / J.T. Scott and F.A. Robertson; title: Pressures on beef grazing in mixed production farming / A.N. Sharpley and C. West; title: The environmental impacts of non-irrigated, pasture-based dairy farming / R.M. Monaghan; title: Impacts of irrigated dairying on the environment / D. Nash and K. Barlow; title: The impact of hybrid-dairy systems on air, soil and water quality: focus on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling / P. Kleinman and K. Soder.