Environmental impacts of pasture-based farming /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Grazing > Environmental aspects.; Pastures > Environmental aspects.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Soil Fertility.; Aquatic Biology and Ecology.; Water Resources.; Grasslands and Rangelands.; Meteorology and Climate.; Pollution and Degradation.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Cattle.; Sheep.; Air pollutants.; Air pollution.; Air quality.; Aquatic environment.; Beef cattle.; Cycling.; Dairy farming.; Emission.; Environmental impact.; Grasslands.; Grazing.; Greenhouse gases.; Irrigation.; Nitrogen cycle.; Phosphorus.; Polluted soils.; Polluted water.; Sheep farming.; Socioeconomics.; Soil fertility.; Soil pollution.; Soil types.; Water pollution.; Water quality.; Electronic books.
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 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.