Modelling risk, trade, agricultural and environmental policies to assess trade-offs between water quality and welfare in the hog industry

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-66

  Savard, Marielle ^a  

^a 155 Place du College App4 ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Hog; Policies; Pork; Water quality; Welfare

Indexed keywords

CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MANURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MODEL; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; SIMULATION; SWINE; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; LIVESTOCK FARMING; WATER QUALITY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033988135     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00173-8     Document Type: Article

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