Part 1: Background -- chapter 1: A good life for cattle: Concepts and Progress -- Chapter 2: Using behaviour to understand and assess welfare in cattle -- Chapter 3: Assessingcattle welfare: physiology and immunology -- Part 2: Challenges in different systems -- Chapter 4: Housing of Dairy Cattle: Enhancing Movement Opportunity in Housing Systems -- Chapter 5: Welfare of dairy cows in pasture-based systems -- Chapter 6: Welfare of beef cattle in extensive systems -- Chapter 7: Welfare of beef cattle in intensive systems -- Part 3: Consideration of key aspects of cattle welfare -- Chapter 8: The Welfare of Cattle at Slaughter -- Chapter 9: The human-animal relationship and cattle welfare -- Chapter 10: Welfare at calving and of the growing animals -- Chapter 11: Precision Livestock Farming Technologies for Dairy and Beef Production -- Chapter 12: Strategies and tools for genetic selection in dairy cattle and their application to improving animal welfare -- Part 4: Case studies -- Chapter 13:The sustainability of cattle production systems -- Chapter 14: The sheltering of unwanted cows in India -- Chapter 15: Cattle Welfare in Smallholder Dairy and Pastoralist Beef systems in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 16: Welfare and health challenges of 'new entry' dairying: A Practitioner's Perspective.