Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainability: a wicked problem / H.C. Peterson -- Production efficiency of ruminants: feed, nitrogen and methane / J. Dijkstra ... [et al.] -- Production efficiency of monogastric animals / H.D. Poulsen ... [et al.] -- Animal welfare: an integral component of sustainability / B. Tucker, J. A. Mench, M.A.G. Von Keyserlingk -- Genetics and sustainable animal agriculture / A. Van Eenennaam -- Minimizing environmental impacts of livestock production using diet optimization models / E. Moraes and J.G. Fadel -- Sustainable manure management / A.B. Leytem, R.S. Dungan and P.J.A. Kleinman -- Water-related issues in sustainability: nitrogen and phosphorus management / K. Knowlton and P. Ray -- Air quality issues in sustainability: greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds / S.E. Place and F.M. Mitloehner -- Integration of air and water quality issues / A. Rotz and T.L. Veith -- The environmental sustainability of food production / J.L. Capper -- Economic sustainability in animal agriculture / S.C. Blank -- Achieving social sustainability in animal agriculture: challenges and opportunities to reconcile multiple sustainability goals / M.T. Niles -- Life-cycle assessment in ruminant production / K.A. Beauchemin and E.J. McGeough -- Quantitative measurements of ammonia and methane loss from livestock / S.M. McGinn -- Manipulation of microbial ecology for sustainable animal production /A-D.G. Wright -- Emerging contaminants in livestock manure: hormones, antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance genes / P.P. Ray, Z. Zhao and K.F. Knowlton -- Animal agriculture: how can it be sustainable in the future? / David K. Beede.