This special issue of Environmental Engineering and Management Journal (EEMJ) contains papers that were delivered at the LivestockWaste 2013 conference, which took place in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, China in 25-26 October, 2013. The topic of the conference was on recent advances in resource recovery and pollution control for livestock waste management. The papers included in this special issue focus on the following areas: (1) policies and regulations on management of animal waste; (2) technologies for animal waste prevention; (3) pollution control technologies; (4) resource recovery technologies and practice; and (5) greenhouse gas emission mitigation for livestock farming.