Agribusiness and primary industries

This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the agri-sector for rice, sugarcane, and cassava in Thailand and the food sector.

This edited volume covers the key role of bioeconomy for next-generation industrial production to achieve Sustainable Development Goals.

Organic farming is not only a philosophy; it is also a well-researched science.

Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances.

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

Fresh concrete must be produced with the properties required for its intended applications, for example, it must be workable enough to flow into formwork, and to be compacted.

Forest Recreation focuses on the increasing consideration of forests as destination for recreation.

This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars.

This book provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensible introduction to bioeconomy.

This text concentrates mainly on the Polish mining industry.

The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change.

Modern Europe has rural roots.

Starting with the receipt of materials and continuing all the way through to the final completion of the construction phase, Concrete and Steel Construction: Quality Control and Assurance examines all the quality control and assurance methods involving reinforced concrete and steel structures.

Theory of Electromagnetic Well Logging provides a much-needed and complete analytical method for electromagnetic well logging technology.

Salinity is one of the acute problems causing enormous yield loss in many regions of the world.

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

Steel-Reinforced Concrete Structures: Assessment and Repair of Corrosion, Third Edition examines the corrosion of reinforced concrete from a practical point of view, highlights protective design and repair procedures, and presents ongoing maintenance protocols.

Rare Earths elements are composed of 15 chemical elements in the periodic table.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Problematik der Modellierung der Ertragsbildung" verfügbar.

An important state-of-the-art report prepared by RILEM Technical Committee 108 ICC.

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us all.

This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations.

This book brings together an international group of agriculture and food lawyers and scientists to define the field of Food System Transparency in three parts: the big picture, food safety and health, and the global view.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and developments in the field of root and tuber crops from a sustainable production and protection perspective.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificacion profesional y adquisicion de certificados de profesionalidad.

Using ecological, historical, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies, Duncan argues that the entire project of developing the theory of political economy has been seriously sidetracked by industrialism.

This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges.

Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization.

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.

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities.

This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science.

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system.

This comprehensive design guide summarizes current developments in the design of concrete pavements.

Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades.

This wide-ranging volume, first published in 1983, reflects the increasing scope of the field of rural geography in the second half of the twentieth century.

The British Economy After Oil (1988) examines the future paths for the British economy as North Sea oil runs out.

For most of the twentieth century, tin was the site of new forms of international regulation which became a model for other commodities.

This book is an introduction to the management of food and beverage operations within a luxury hotel environment.

This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges.

This conference proceedings volume presents advanced methods in time series estimation models that are applicable various areas of applied economic research such as international economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance economics and agricultural economics.

Larger amounts of nutritious food are required to feed the growing world population, which is a great challenge due to water shortages and reduced crop plant yield.

The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Achieving sustainable agricultural development is at the forefront of the poverty reduction objective of the Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Presenting well-known tools and techniques, the Home Builder's Guide to Continuous Improvement provides important insights and necessary information to reduce cycle time duration and variation in order to improve quality and customer satisfaction and to minimize costs and accidents.

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport.

Students in Technical and Agricultural faculties spend only a limited amount of time on general economics, environmental economics and resource economics.

This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development.

Fish have been a major component of our diet and it has been suggested that fish/seafood consumption contributed to the development of the human brain, and this together with the acquisition of bipedalism, perhaps made us what we are.