Livestock husbandry is a major line of conflict in many industrialized countries. Farmers are caught in a dilemma between ethical considerations imposed by, for instance, nongovernmental organizations and the wider public on the one hand and competitive and economic pressures on the other. In...

In Vansteenkiste and De Schutter propose a modified modal method to simulate diffusion processes with non-homogeneous boundary conditions. Moreover, the hybrid implementation of the modal simulation is discussed by the authors from an exclusively theoretical point of view.