Business & Economics Agribusiness
Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability
A Farming Systems Analysis
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2005
- Category
- Agribusiness, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental Economics
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774811057
- Publish Date
- Jul 2005
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774811040
- Publish Date
- Oct 2004
- List Price
- $95.00
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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.
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Contributor Notes
Glen C. Filson is associate professor of Rural Extension Studies at the University of Guelph.