TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warren,John
AU  - Lawson,Clare
AU  - Belcher,Kenneth Ward
TI  - The agri-environment
SN  - 9780511619564 (ebook)
AV  - S589.75 .W37 2008
U1  - 333.7616 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Agricultural systems
KW  - Agricultural ecology
KW  - Agricultural conservation
KW  - Agriculture and state
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); An introduction to agro-ecology -- Agricultural support and environmentalism -- Environmental impacts of agriculture -- Principles behind agri-environment schemes -- Farm conservation planning -- Habitat management -- The management of agricultural wastes -- Low-impact farming systems -- Landscape and farmscape ecology -- The future of agri-environmental systems
N2  - The application of ecological theory and conservation biology to agricultural ecosystems has become an important and growing research field and undergraduate course component in recent years. This book is both an academic textbook and practical guide to farm conservation, and has evolved from the authors' extensive teaching experience. It covers the ecology of farmed land, how agricultural practices influence the environment, how agriculture has changed over time and how the species that inhabit the agri-environment have adapted. It also covers the history of agricultural policy and subsidies and the development of agri-environment schemes. A number of different farming systems are discussed, as are the difficulties in determining their relative merits. Guidance is offered on how to produce a workable farm conservation plan, and the final chapters look to the future and the development of new, greener farming systems
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511619564
ER  -