Healthy, happy and humane: Evidence in farm animal welfare policy

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 390-411

  Bock, Bettina ^a   Buller, Henry ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PLANNING THEORY; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY STRATEGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

NETHERLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84880168849     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/soru.12011     Document Type: Article

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