Agribusiness and primary industries

First published in 1983.

Given the central role of the food and agriculture system in driving so many of the connected ecological, social and economic threats and challenges we currently face, Rethinking Food and Agriculture reviews, reassesses and reimagines the current food and agriculture system and the narrow paradigm in which it operates.

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs.

Marketing Sugar and Other Sweeteners was written to fill a large void of literature on the marketing aspects of an important sector of the food market.

The present book deals with the biology of a wide range of coccidia of numerous genera including Emeria, Isospora, Sarcocystis, Toxoplasma, Caryospora, and Cryptosporidium.

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers.

Compiles the issues involved in successful ecosystem-based fisheries management to foster its implementation and further scientific research into the area.

The Coal Handbook: Towards Cleaner Coal Supply Chains, Volume One, Second Edition presents a comprehensive analysis of the latest technology and practices.

Global climate change is typically understood and modeled using global climate models (GCMs), but the outputs of these models in terms of hydrological variables are only available on coarse or large spatial and time scales, while finer spatial and temporal resolutions are needed to reliably assess the hydro-environmental impacts of climate change.

This book is an outcome of the symposium on agricultural water management in Netherlands and discusses the methods that leads to cost effective but environmentally acceptable techniques.

Crustaceans adapt to a wide variety of habitats and ways of life.

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

Originally published in 1975, this book traces the subsistence methods of Mediterranean country dwellers from the mid-seventh millennium B.

This book gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions.

This study by Shenggen Fan makes three important and original contributions.

Originally published in 1995.

The Mekong River has been a main source of conquest, conflict, and cooperation in the Southeast Asian region.

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century.

Design of Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges to Eurocodes centers on the new design rules incorporated in the EN-versions of the Eurocodes.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints.

This is the first world history of peasants.

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.

The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture.

In the mid-1980s, the American beer market offered far fewer options than what is available today.

Margaret Young outlines how efforts to avert the global fisheries crisis necessitate a new understanding of international law.

Running a productive agriculture system has always been about having the right tools and the know-how to pursue optimization and efficiency.

Originally published in 1993, this book provides an excellent analysis of commodity policies internationally during the late 20th Century.

First published in 1984, Hugh Clout's work contributes to one of the most debated and important topics of the time, the European Economic Community.

Originally published in 1938, this book explores the problem of the adjustment of the population in the early 20th century to the agricultural-economic environment in a geographical and economic setting.

The aim of the studies presented in this report is the implementation of rational concepts and testing procedures for the design and manufacture of bituminous materials for applications in pavement construction.

An edition, translation, and full-scale commentary for the agricultural fragments of the third-century Roman author Gargilius Martialis.

Up to 20 percent of species may be extinct by 2030.

Advanced Construction Mathematics covers the range of topics that a student must learn in order to achieve success in Level 3 and 4 mathematics for the Pearson BTEC National and BTEC HNC/HND in Construction, Building Services, and Civil Engineering.

Professional services firms play a vital role in the social, environmental and economic well-being of any economy.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 18th North American Mine Ventilation Symposium held, on a virtual platform, June 12-17, 2021.

Citrus Fruit: Biology, Technology and Evaluation, Second Edition presents a comprehensive view of these globally important crops, from cultivars to consumer acceptability.

This book presents a detailed account of different enzymes including pectinolytic and amylolytic systems, invertases, cellulases and hemicellulases, pectinases, proteases, laccases, phytases, alpha-glucuronidases, mannanases, lipases produced by different fungi.

This informative volume presents a valuable overview of the therapeutic aspects as well as applications of antioxidants.

As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and intensify.

This book serves as a guide to understanding the intricacies and challenges of managing agribusiness enterprises in the modern era.

The integration of Human Factors in Land Use Planning and Urban Design (LUP & UD) is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary field.

Nuts have been long perceived as a high-fat, high-calorie food, best avoided or consumed in moderation.

First published in 1999, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and their conditions of change.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

This new volume in the Innovations and Challenges in Micro Irrigation series covers an array of technologies to estimate evapotranspiration and to evaluate parameters that are needed in the management of micro irrigation, with worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.

The demand for energy consumption is increasing rapidly.

The book deals with the geotechnical analysis and design of foundation systems for high-rise buildings and other complex structures with a distinctive soil-structure interaction.