Figures and Tables

Foreword / Murray H. Miller

Preface 

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part 1: Issues and Book Overview

1. Introduction / Glen C. Filson

2. Environmental Problems Associated with Intensive Agriculture / Glen C. Filson

3. Social Implications of Intensive Agriculture / Glen C. Filson

Part 2: Framework and Linkages

4. FSR Concepts and Methods for Addressing Social and Environmental Problems / John Smithers, Ellen Wall, and Clarence Swanton

5. Developing Predictive and Summative Indicators to Model Farming Systems / Mike J. Goss, John R. Ogilvie, Glen C. Filson, Dean A. Barry, and Santiago Olmos

6. Modeling Farming System Linkages / Alfons Weersink, Scott Jeffrey, and David Pannell

Part 3: Applications of the Framework and Linkages for Solving Sustainability-Related Problems of Intensive Agriculture

7. A Whole-Farm Systems Approach to Modelling Sustainable Manure Management on Intensive Swine Finishing Farms / D.P. Stonehouse, G.W. de Vos, and A. Weersink

8. Balancing Environmental and Economic Concerns in Manure Management by Use of an On-Farm Computerized Decision Support Program, MCLONE4 / John R. Ogilvie, Dean A. Barry, Mike J. Goss, and D.P. Stonehouse

9. Challenges Awaiting the Dairy Industry as the Result of its Management Decision Environment / Wayne C. Pfeiffer and Glen C. Filson

10. Water Quality Initiatives in the Crowfoot Creek Watershed, Alberta / Georgina Knitel and Alfons Weersink

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