naturalness, origin, and swapping beef for other meats as key factors in sustainable diets. The interpretation of “better” was primarily dominated by animal welfare concerns. However,
Chapter 17 IPM: The Forest Context Jon Sweeney, Kevin J. Dodds, Christopher J. Fettig, and Angus J. Carnegie Integrated pest management (IPM) is perhaps best described as "…the maintenance of destructive agents, including insects, at tolerable levels by the planned use of a variety of ...
Historical Context Example – Animal Farm Let’s delve a little further into this by looking at George Orwell’s classic, Animal Farm. If you’re unfamiliar with the book, it’s a story about how a group of farm animals rebel against their farmer and decide to run the farm on their own...
a given population14,15. Therefore, the research on the heterogeneity of the economic consequences caused by climate change is always controversial, underscoring the need for more rigorous strategies and detailed analyses to estimate. All the same, some scholars have argued that the poor populations ...
In the western world, changing perceptions of animal welfare based on growing consumer concerns are not new. Ruth Harrison's book Animal Machines (1964) inspired the Brambell Committee (1965) and promoted the concept of animals' ‘five freedoms’, which in turn led to the Farm Animal Welfare ...
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Roy Ellen Background The 1990s witnessed a growing acknowledgement world wide of the importance of local ecological knowledge in the context of food security and sustainable development (Warren, Slikkerveer and Brokensha 1995; Sillitoe, Bicker and Pottier 2002; Pottier, Bicker...
In Cry, the Beloved Country, what does 'That man has a silver tongue' mean? What is The Premature Burial about? What are some euphemisms for death in The Things They Carried? What does Tears of a Tiger mean? What is the historical context of Animal Farm? What does the title of...
Semantics, the study of the meaning of words, is necessary if you are to speak and read intelligently. 此例逗号中短语意为“对词意义进行研究的学科”。该短语与前面生词semantics式同位关系,因此我们不难猜出semantics指“语义学”。 在复述中构成同位关系的两部分之间多用逗号连接,有时也使用破折号,冒号...
storyline to be told. This chapter sketches some basic concepts of Western scientific thinking, describes the nutrient elements theory, discusses the humus history, explores economics and functionalism, addresses soil systems theory, and investigates agroecology and agro-technology. Minority movements of ...
The objective of this research paper is to present an analysis of the interactions between agricultural constructions’ outdoor and indoor environment by monitoring an actual operational construction designed for animal rearing, from the point of view of animal welfare and sustainability, taking into ...