Agribusiness and primary industries

The development of farming machinery revolutionised agriculture, allowing for far greater yields with less manpower.

The Railway Research Institute (Instytut Kolejnictwa) in Warsaw was established in 1951 and was, until 2000, part of the Polish State Railways (PKP).

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent.

Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings provides structural engineers, architects, and students with a systematic introduction to fire safety design for tall buildings based on current analysis methods, design guidelines, and codes.

The Pictorial Atlas of Soilborne Fungal Plant Pathogens and Diseases describes the soilborne fungal diseases caused by Oomycetes, Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes, and Deuteromycetous (Anamorphic) fungi.

Comprising 97 papers on Geotechnical & environmental aspects (Pile-soil modelling, vibrations); Dynamic testing (Equipment & data acquisition systems); Performance during installation (Driving equipment, hammer-pile-soil system); Reliability of predictions (Theory versus experiment and simulation).

This book examines the role and position of urban agriculture in the spatial and functional structure of cities in the Global South.

This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics.

This book provides a fundamental understanding of cement and concrete, presents an in-depth analysis of mixing and testing methods, and offers minimum coverage of theory.

The modification of passive films is a promising method of improving the corrosion resistance of metallic materials.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Problem des klassischen als historisches, archäologisches und philologisches Phänomen" verfügbar.

Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world.

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This book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of agricultural communities in southern India, from their historical roots to the recent global neo-liberal era.

The most useful properties of food, i.

Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly.

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

The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual water and water governance.

Transport Phenomena in Dispersed Media addresses the main problems associated with the transfer of heat, mass and momentum.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives.

The current anti-cancer synthetic medicines are deemed inefficient and unsafe, state the editors of this new book.

Almost 3000 lives have been lost in the UK construction industry over the last twenty-five years, in addition to those seriously injured or made ill.

Nanotechnology has the potential to impact on food processing significantly.

This book develops an analytical framework for understanding United States foreign agricultural policy through a "e;state interest"e; approach, and describes and analyses seven cases of food policy decisions through this perspective which shows that decision makers sought on most occasions to utilise US food resources to accomplish foreign policy objectives.

Over the past several decades there has been increasing interest in, and concern about, the economics of the world's capture fishery resources.

Covering the subject of ground control in mining, this volume looks at such topics as: rock-slab theory of ground pressure in work and practice, the role of in situ-stress in mine planning, and the status of the art of cable bolting.

This book forms the proceedings of a workshop held in Hiroshima in June 1998 and derive from the work of a Technical Committee of the Japan Concrete Institute.

Wildlife tourism is a growing multimillion-dollar industry within the hospitality and tourism industry.

Utilizing a model derived from literature on environmental justice overlaid with multiple scales of agriculture, Environmental Justice and Farm Labor provides key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

Geoinformatics for Marine and Coastal Management provides a timely and valuable assessment of the current state of the art geoinformatics tools and methods for the management of marine systems.

Apulian limestones constitute the historic building constructions of the Puglia region (in the south of Italy) named trulli (representing an outstanding universal value for UNESCO), but also other stone buildings of the well-known Itria Valley.

Most construction projects are large and costly.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

The book covers Indian agricultural development from the colonial to the present period.

The two-volume set Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is concerned with the application of the principles of mechanics to physical, chemical and electro-magnetic processes in the upper-most layers of the earth and the design and construction of the rock structures associated with civil engineering and exploitation or extraction of natural resources in mining and petroleum engineering.

Livestock production worldwide is increasing rapidly, in part due to economic growth and demand for meat in industrializing countries.

Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States.

This book is an outcome of the second European conference on Echinoderm brussels held in Belgium in 1989.

This study, originally published in 1990, seeks to address several important policy questions associated with the ongoing depletion of forested wetlands.

Originally published in 1984 this book remains as relevant as when it was first published.

Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the world's food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases.

Sustainable Intensification (SI) has recently emerged as a key concept for agricultural development, recognising that yields must increase to feed a growing world population, but it must be achieved without damage to the environment, on finite land resources and while preserving social and natural capital.

Once recognised as a high-performing newly industrialising Asian economy with the potential for economic and developmental success similar to South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, Thailand's growth rate and competitive edge have declined substantially.

Fish and shellfish comprise annually nearly 70-million tons of the world's edible animal protein.

This book provides readers with an understanding of various concepts, benefits, and practices that the adoption of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technolo>gies can bring when working towards sustainable construction goals.

The openings offered by functional genomics reconciles organism biology and molecular biology, in order to define an integrative biology that should allow new insights about how a phenotype is built up from a genotype in interaction with its environment.

The Biology of Nematodes synthesizes literature on free-living, plant-parasitic, and animal-parasitic nematodes.

In the second half of the twentieth century, significant changes were occurring within the agricultural industry, including an increase in efficiency and government intervention, as well as expanded and more complicated patterns of trade.

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H.