Agribusiness and primary industries

The aim of this book is to bring together a series of contributions from experts in the field to cover the major aspects of the application of geostatistics in precision agriculture.

The Practical Handbook of Well Control teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling well engineering.

In this book we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants.

This book bridges the gap between academic and professional field pertaining to design of industrial reinforced cement concrete and steel structures.

A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine-the journey from vine to bottle-that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way.

This new volume offers a valuable introduction to plant ecology from a genomics point of view, presenting a thorough foundation and summary of modern approaches, methodologies, research goals, and evidence of plant ecology in the modern genomic era.

This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries.

Infectious Diseases and Pathology of Reptiles, Second Edition provides definitive information on every aspect of the anatomy, pathophysiology, and differential diagnosis of infectious diseases affecting reptiles.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries.

This book presents the thermal and catalytic processes in refining.

This revised second edition provides an introductory guide through the maze of interdisciplinary themes that comprise 'biodiversity.

Originally published in 1994, this book examines the importance of family agricultural systems in both the developed and the developing worlds.

Aeroponics: Growing Vertical covers aspects of the emerging technology, aeroponics, which is a sister to hydroponics, involving state-of-the-art controlled environment agriculture.

Many countries around the world are struggling with the challenges of water scarcity, including water for crops.

The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life.

Mineral processing technology is a branch of applied science that deals with the principles and practice of separating useful minerals from primary solid ore mineral resources.

Life on Earth is both challenging and beautiful.

Conifers--pine, fir, and spruce trees--are dominant species in forests around the world.

The new edition of the Building Regulations Pocket Book has been fully updated with recent changes to the UK Building Regulations and Planning Law.

This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc).

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the current models and typologies of olive landscapes and related farming systems in the Mediterranean.

This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human development variables: living standards, education and health.

This book presents contemporary case studies on selected Italian food and wine products to explore how traditional production and consumption models address and adapt to the sustainability challenges in the Italian high-excellence agri-food sector.

Trüffel, oft als "Diamanten der Küche" bezeichnet, gehören zu den wertvollsten und begehrtesten Delikatessen weltweit.

This book calls for those interested in robust construction research to embrace ethnography - in all its forms, including rapid ethnographies, ethnographic-action research, autoethnography, as well as longer-term ethnographies.

This book is designed to help practitioners and students in a wide range of construction project management professions to understand what building information modelling (BIM) and big data could mean for them and how they should prepare to work successfully on BIM-compliant projects and maintain their competencies in this essential and expanding area.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning.

The energy used to build and operate buildings is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.

This book addresses some of the countless challenges faced by developing countries when adopting sustainable design and construction and offers suggestions for the way forward for African development projects.

While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past.

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

Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using integrated modeling as applied to advanced water resource assessments.

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of climate change on the tropical ecosystems in Tanzania.

Based on the 5th Dean's committee of ICAR and NEP 2020, this book provides an overview of the important aspects of fruit crops.

Connie Kelly Tang and Lei Zhang have provided a holistic coverage of the entire surface transportation project and program development process from the beginning of planning though environmental approval, design, right-of way acquisition, construction to operations and maintenance.

Over the past two decades, existing documentation of women in the agricultural sector has surveyed topics such as agricultural restructuring and land reform, international trade agreements and food trade, land ownership and rural development and rural feminisms.

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492.

Many African countries are increasingly interested in learning from China's experiences in achieving effective agricultural development.

First published in 1983.

Plants under abiotic stress are those suffering from drought, extreme temperatures, flood and other natural-but non-living-factors.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant additional materials and changes since its original publication immediately after the initial release of the NEC4 contracts.

Many countries around the world are struggling with the challenges of water scarcity, including water for crops.

The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum (1980) provides an analysis of the relevance of the Soviet planning system to oil production levels: why it is that planning has been the source of so many petroleum industry problems, and the nature of the measures that are being taken to overcome them.

Turkey is home to the largest Syrian refugee community in the world and the agricultural industry offers work opportunities for vulnerable Syrian refugee families.

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy.

This work contains a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the First Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2002.