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In general there is an increased focus on animal welfare in dairy farms, and it is expected that animal welfare will be an important aspect for public accept of automatic milking systems (AMS) as a production system. Furthermore, experiences from previous studies indicate that there is a large variation between herds in general, regarding animal welfare, due to the effect of interactions betwee...

This paper is concerned with the problem of how to characterize the housing-welfare state relationship. The image of housing as the wobbly pillar under the welfare state was first used in 1987 by Torgersen and endorsed in 1995 by Harloe, whose comparative survey of social rented housing in Europe and the United States led him to the conclusion that housing had ‘an ambiguous and shifting status ...