Changes in farming and in stakeholder concern for animal welfare

Improving Farm Animal Welfare: Science and Society Working Together: The Welfare Quality Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 19-47

  Miele, Mara ^a   Blokhuis, Harry ^b   Bennett, Richard ^c   Bock, Bettina ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-770-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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