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Business & Economics Agribusiness

Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability

A Farming Systems Analysis

edited by Glen Filson

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2005
Category
Agribusiness, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental Economics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774811057
    Publish Date
    Jul 2005
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774811040
    Publish Date
    Oct 2004
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774851183
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability outlines the advantages of Farming Systems Analysis for understanding the implications of modern, intensive agriculture. This book describes some of the major environmental and social problems connected with intensive farming; outlines a framework for analyzing its sustainability; discusses key linkages among the environmental, economic, and social indicators; outlines modelling trade-offs between profitability and environmental sustainability; and then analyzes various farming systems using case studies.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Glen C. Filson is associate professor of Rural Extension Studies at the University of Guelph.