Agribusiness and primary industries

Circular Economy in the Construction Industry is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD and Masters-level students in universities analyzing the present status of Construction and Demolition Wastes (C&DW) management, materials development utilizing slag, fly ash, HDPE fibre, geo-wastes, and other wastes, green concrete, soil stabilization, resource circulation in construction sectors, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs, and future research areas.

A major study of the modern global coal market and its impacts both on energy markets and on climate policy.

Offering the fundamental information for successful piping and pipeline engineering, this book pairs real-world practice with the underlying technical principles in materials, design, construction, inspection, testing, and maintenance.

Concrete and reinforced concrete remain the main building materials for construction of modern fortifications.

This book covers theoretical foundations of the Natural Gas (NG) installations and networks as a part of building logistic system, illustrated with digital examples.

This book is a readable and insightful analytical work that steadily traces and analyzes the historical development of Confucianism in China.

Originally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation.

The American Construction Industry meticulously chronicles the evolution of the construction industry from its roots in the medieval guild system to the high-tech jobsite of tomorrow.

This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services.

Agribusiness, though not a new concept, is gaining momentum after economic liberalisation.

Collection of excellent articles presenting the latest developments in blast vibration measurements, modeling and mitigation techniques.

Legislation, Technology and Practice of Mine Land Reclamation contains the proceedings of the Beijing International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration (LRER 2014, Beijing, China, 16-19 October 2014).

This book is intended to be used as a textbook in undergraduate civil engineering and construction courses to introduce cutting edge mechanical, electrical, and computer science topics that are needed for civil and construction engineers to collaborate in inter-disciplinary automation projects.

The art of creating and consuming bourbon is exploding, Carla Carlton's Barrel Strength Bourbon is a must read for all bourbon aficionados.

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge.

With extensive research and creative interpretations, Dasan's Noneo gogeum ju (Old and New Commentaries of the Analects) has been evaluated in the academia of Korean Studies as a crystallization of his studies on the Confucian classics.

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations.

In recent years, consumers have become increasingly interested not just in price and quality but in where and how food is produced.

This book provides a comprehensive historical account of agricultural development in independent India.

Foregrounding an innovative and radical perspective on food planning, this book makes the case for an agroecological urbanism in which food is a key component in the reinvention of new and just social arrangements and ecological practices.

This text provides a concise and practical guide to timber design, using both the Allowable Stress Design and the Load and Resistance Factor Design methods.

Food scarcity and insecurity is an alarming issue throughout the world.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

This fully updated second edition presents a conceptual framework of outdoor recreation management in the form of a series of management matrices.

This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and evolutionary governance theory.

Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with environmental problems like waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability.

The Digital Age in Agriculture presents information related to the digital age in the agriculture sector.

Rising concerns about agricultural productivity and food security in rapidly changing economic and environmental contexts have led to renewed interest in agricultural development.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

This title was first published in 2003.

Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world.

Intensive animal agriculture wrongs many, many animals.

Sugarcane Biorefinery, Technology and Perspectives provides the reader with a current view of the global scenario of sugarcane biorefinery, launching a new expectation on this important crop from a chemical, energy and sustainability point-of-view.

This book presents the progress, changes, and evolvement for apple mechanical harvest during the past decades, which include, but not limited to, bulky harvest method, harvest platform, apple infield sorting, and harvest robotics.

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 book deals with recent and upcoming technologies of breeding freshwater ornamental fish.

Orphan Crops for Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security discusses the issues, challenges, needs and opportunities related to the promotion of orphan crops, known also as neglected and underutilized species (NUS).

Expanded and edited by Malcolm Thorpe, a former CITB Advisor, this latest edition incorporates all the latest industry-based requirements and technical developments in the construction industry.

After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada.

Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil, gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment.

Novel research in construction management is often distant from existing practice.

The Joint 6th Biennial SGA-SEG Meeting was held in Krakow in August 2001.

This book presents wealth of information on British metallurgical aspects of archaeology and information on fuels and fuel ashes.

This book explores the types of conflicts that occur over marine and coastal resources, the underlying causes, and attempts to prevent them.

The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined.

Originally published in 1962, this book was a study of British agricultural policy since the Second World War - during a period which saw the adoption of a comprehensive system of agricultural support which stood in marked contrast to the free trade policy adhered to previously.

This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives.

In dealing with extreme loads on structures, simple approximations of key variables can indicate if there is a threat of collapse.