Agribusiness and primary industries

The genus Perca includes only three species of fish, but they are ubiquitous and abundant in freshwater and brackish environments of the northern hemisphere, from North America to Europe and Asia.

A comprehensive study of sex differentiation gonochoric and hermaphroditic fishes, this book examines sex chromosomes and sex determining genes, emphasizing the need to search for more than one sex-determining gene residing on different chromosomes.

This edited collection aims to examine the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural places.

Although Asia has been the world engine of economic growth since World War II, growth rates have differed sharply among the countries of the region.

The first 50 years of ASEAN integration has brought peace and prosperity to the Southeast Asian region, while the next 50 will undoubtedly be fraught with unprecedented challenges.

Located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna.

This Palgrave Handbook offers the first international comparative study into the efficiency of the industrial organization of the global wine industry.

Mountain regions encompass nearly 24 percent of the total land surface of the earth and are home to approximately 12 percent of the world's population.

An overview of ecosystem-based management of fisheries, with contributions from some of the world''s leading fisheries scientists, managers and conservationists.

In a continuously changing world, there has been a growing interest in the protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture.

This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being.

Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world.

Guide to Practical Use of Chemicals in Refineries and Pipelines delivers a well-rounded collection of content, references, and patents to show all the practical chemical choices available for refinery and pipeline usage, along with their purposes, benefits, and general characteristics.

This is a comprehensive book on infrastructure development and construction management.

Good engineers never stop looking for opportunities to improve the performance of their production systems.

This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC).

This book presents the latest research development on fibre reinforced cementitious materials, especially those related to ageing and durability.

Fish lives in environments with a wide variety of chemical characteristics (fresh, brackish and seawater, acidic, alkaline, soft and hard waters).

The theory of waves is generalized on cases when waves change medium in which they appear and propagate.

This book is a rare collection of reflective and reflexive stories that reveal how seasoned academics, agents of grassroots social change, leaders and journalists transformed and shaped the development landscape in eastern and southern Africa.

Health Effects of Pesticides covers various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behaviour, degradation, and impacts on the agrarian environment.

Paper and the British Empire examines the evolution of the paper industry within British organisational frameworks and highlights the role of the Empire as a market and business-making area in a world of shrinking commerce and rising trade barriers.

This book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects.

It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required.

This book explores structural changes in India's agrifood systems during the next ten to twenty years.

What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas?

Recommended in CHOICE, February 2021Insects are all around us, outweighing humanity by 17 times.

This title was first published in 2001.

Professor Hillman's Technical Barriers to Agricultural Trade is both timely and important.

Optimal distribution of fresh horticultural products entails prolonging their freshness and nutritional quality as long as possible after harvest.

Currently 868 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted.

I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing.

Advances in Urban Construction and Management Engineering focuses on the research of urban traffic, city engineering, ecological city and management engineering.

The interaction phenomenon is very common between different components of a mechanical system.

This book gives an overview of all the gold extraction processes along with their mechanistic study and environmental impact.

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas.

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind.

A Practical Guide to Piping and Valves for the Oil and Gas Industry covers how to select, test and maintain the right oil and gas valve.

Today, the agriculture industry is confronted with simultaneous issues of how to fully embrace mass production of safer food in terms of both quality and quantity.

Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land.

This book aims to bring forth and address the major issues confronting the irrigation sector of India and also to suggest policy pointers to sustain it.

This book is a compilation of detailed and latest knowledge on the various types of environmental pollutants released from various natural as well as anthropogenic sources, their toxicological effects in environments, humans, animals and plants as well as various bioremediation approaches for their safe disposal into the environments.

Mine areas left behind by companies that no longer exist are defined as derelict mines - those that were operated and closed at a time when most countries did not have adequate regulations requiring rehabilitation of the impacted mine areas.

This book provides a holistic perspective on the sustainable conservation of heritage buildings through outlining the factors that influence the preservation, operational performance and maintainability of heritage buildings and the application of new methodologies and technologies.

This book collates the main research developments around Lean Construction over the past 25 years with contributions from many seminal authors in the field.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic?

Written by a team of highly skilled authors, this book contains new cases covering all aspects of emergency and critical care medicine where a co-ordinated team approach to patient care is needed.

Around the world, on average, four coal miners die for each million tons of coal recovered.

Originally published in 1988, Conservation at Home looks at practical methods of conservation that can be carried out within the home.