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

11. The Ontario Environmental Farm Plan: A Whole-Farm System
Approach to Participatory Environmental Management for Agriculture /
John FitzGibbon, Ryan Plummer, and Robert Summers

Part 4: Lessons Learned

12. Integrating Farming Systems Analysis of Intensive Farming /
Glen C. Filson and Chris Duke

Glossary

References

Contributors

Index