Overview
- Presents a new, environmentally friendly approach to animal husbandry
- Demonstrates how carbon dioxide utilization methods can be used to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from dairy farms
- Illustrates the benefits of these methods at both the local and global scale
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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About this book
The book is divided into five chapters, the first of which addresses the carbon footprint of dairy farms. Chapter two provides an overview of the animal production system, focusing on the physiology of the ruminant stomach and the greenhouse gases emitted by dairy cows. In turn, the third chapter covers dairy farm systems, explaining both intensive and extensive husbandry systems. The book’s final two chapters present the-state-of-art in CO2 capture, and describe a new and innovative CO2-RFP strategy.
Given its scope, the book will be of interest to chemists, biologists, biotechnologists, and researchers active in agriculture and food-related areas, as well as those working in the food and dairy industry.
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Book Title: Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms
Authors: Santiago García-Yuste
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46060-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46059-4Published: 21 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46060-0Published: 20 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 112
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Agriculture, Environmental Economics, Environmental Chemistry