Sustainable animal agriculture /

This book with eighteen chapters draws together themes on sustainability that have emerged as the most pressing in recent years. The book addresses practical topics such as air quality, manure management, animal feeds, production efficiency, environmental sustainability, biotechnology issues, animal...

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Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
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245 0 0 |a Sustainable animal agriculture /  |c edited by Ermias Kebreab, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, USA. 
264 # 1 |a Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :  |b CABI,  |c 2013. 
264 # 4 |c ©2013 
300 # # |a 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) :  |b illustrations (some color) maps, charts 
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504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 # |a Sustainability : a wicked problem / H.C. Peterson -- Production efficiency of ruminants : feed, nitrogen and methane / J. Dijkstra, J. France, J.L. Ellis, A.B. Strathe, E. Kebreab and A. Bannink -- Production efficiency of monogastric animals / H.D. Poulsen, K. Blaabjerg, J.V. Nørgaard and E. Kebreab -- Animal welfare : an integral component of sustainability / C.B. Tucker, J.A. Mench, M.A.G. Von Keyserlingk -- Genetics and sustainable animal agriculture / A.L. Van Eenennaam -- Minimizing environmental impacts of livestock production using diet optimization models / L.E. Moraes and J.G. Fadel -- Sustainable manure management / A.B. Leytem, R.S. Dungan and P.J.A. Kleinman -- Water-related issues in sustainability : nitrogen and phosphorus management / K. Knowlton and P. Ray -- Air quality issues in sustainability : greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds / S.E. Place and F.M. Mitloehner -- Integration of air and water quality issues / C.A. Rotz and T.L. Veith -- The environmental sustainability of food production / J.L. Capper -- Economic sustainability in animal agriculture / S.C. Blank -- Achieving social sustainability in animal agriculture : challenges and opportunities to reconcile multiple sustainability goals / M.T. Niles -- Life-cycle assessment in ruminant production / K.A. Beauchemin and E.J. McGeough -- Quantitative measurements of ammonia and methane loss from livestock / S.M. McGinn -- Manipulation of microbial ecology for sustainable animal production / A.-D.G. Wright and S.E. Hook -- Emerging contaminants in livestock manure : hormones, antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance genes / P. Ray, Z. Zhao and K.F. Knowlton -- Animal agriculture : how can it be sustainable in the future? / D.K. Beede. 
506 # # |a Access limited to subscribing institution. 
520 3 # |a This book with eighteen chapters draws together themes on sustainability that have emerged as the most pressing in recent years. The book addresses practical topics such as air quality, manure management, animal feeds, production efficiency, environmental sustainability, biotechnology issues, animal welfare concerns, societal impacts and an analysis of the data used to assess the economic sustainability of farms. Further, the book will be helpful to academics, researchers, animal scientists, farmers agriculturalists, environmentalists. 
530 # # |a Also available in print format. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed February 10, 2014). 
650 # 0 |a Animal culture. 
650 # 0 |a Sustainable agriculture. 
650 # 4 |a Agricultural Economics. 
650 # 4 |a Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Animal Welfare. 
650 # 4 |a Water Resources. 
650 # 4 |a Meteorology and Climate. 
650 # 4 |a Pollution and Degradation. 
650 # 4 |a Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002) 
650 # 4 |a Animal Wastes. 
650 # 7 |a Agricultural economics.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Air pollutants.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Air pollution.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Air quality.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Ammonia.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Animal husbandry.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Animal manures.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Animal production.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Animal welfare.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Biotechnology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Efficiency.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Environmental impact.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Feeds.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Food production.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Greenhouse gases.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Methane.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Social impact.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Sustainability.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Waste management.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Water quality.  |2 cabt 
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700 1 # |a Kebreab, E.,  |e editor of compilation. 
710 2 # |a C.A.B. International,  |e issuing body. 
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