Agribusiness and primary industries

Plant Ecology & Conservation is an introduction to the world of plant ecology.

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.

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resource industries.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

This unique book covers the molecular aspects of plant stress and the various industrial applications.

Practical Wellbore Hydraulics and Hole Cleaning presents a single resource with explanations, equations and descriptions that are important for wellbore hydraulics, including hole cleaning.

Soil organic matter (SOM) is the primary determinant of soil functionality.

Mining is a transformative activity which has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts.

Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations.

gricultural science policy in the United States has profoundly affected the growth and development of agriculture worldwide, not just in the A United States.

Ferrocement is a versatile, construction material, with applications in low cost housing, rehabilitation, strengthening and repair of structures.

This book presents cases from different countries with a main focus on the perspectives of using precision farming in Europe.

The papers in this set of two volumes, presented at a national seminar, organized by the Department of Rural Industries and Management, Gandhigram Rural Institute provide a deep insight into the problems and management of small scale industries in India and try to find out ways and means for their promotion.

The term "e;biodiversity"e; or "e;biological diversity"e; describes the variety of living beings on Earth encompassing microorganisms, plants, animals, and ecosystems, such as coral reefs, forests, and deserts.

This fully revised and updated edition of Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers includes 300 questions and incorporates 42 new judicial decisions, the JCT 2016 updates and the RIBA Building Contracts and Professional Services Contracts 2018 updates.

Dealing with such a multi-layered and fungible intangible as quality during the design and construction process is difficult for all parties involved.

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most global human enterprises, and as the world struggles with sustainable practices and policies, agricultural chemistry has a clear role to play.

Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity.

Concrete is an inherently complex material to produce and an even more complex material to repair.

Mitigation of Gas Pipeline Integrity Problems presents the methodology to enable engineers, experienced or not, to alleviate pipeline integrity problems during operation.

"Wir Konsumenten blockieren ein nachhaltigeres globales Ernährungssystem, indem wir der Landwirtschaft einen Mühlstein aus Vorurteilen, Denkverboten und widersprüchlichen Wünschen um den Hals hängen.

Human Diseases from Wildlife presents information on the most prevalent and serious zoonotic diseases in the US and Canada, some of which have been national headline news like anthrax, influenza, and West Nile virus.

Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions.

Micro irrigation, also known as trickle, drip, localized, high frequency, or pressurized irrigation, is an irrigation method that saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone, through a network of valves, pipes, tubing, and emitters.

This book provides exclusive information on how agribusinesses could act as the springboard for inclusive economic growth critical for socioeconomic transformation of Africa.

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

This book is designed to help landowners and forestry professionals develop, implement, and monitor programs to manage both deer and forests with emphasis on resolving deer impact issues.

Several international and European institutions have given increasing importance to sustainable approaches to our existing building stock and the role of built heritage in this process.

Feed Efficiency in the Beef Industry provides a thorough and concise overview of feed efficiency in beef cattle.

Existentialism asks some of the most fundamental questions about human existence: What gives our lives meaning and value?

Originally published in 1982.

This book highlights the traditional boundaries of the textile industry and discusses to what extent organic cotton is sustainable.

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.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

Cannabis Careers: The Insider's Guide to a Budding Industry is a comprehensive resource for individuals interested in entering the rapidly growing cannabis industry.

This book is intended as a resource for students and researchers interested in developmental biology and physiology and specifically addresses the larval stages of fish.

A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture - and appropriate responsesThe miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation.

Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Specialty Corns includes everything in the first edition and more.

Embankment construction projects on very soft soil often give rise to serious problems.

Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how these concepts are applied in the oil and gas industry to meet both economic and technical challenges.

This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions.

As mining operations increase in scale and mines go progressively deeper, the geotechnical input into mine design is of importance.

Precision Agriculture (PA) is an approach to managing the variability in production agriculture in a more economic and environmentally efficient manner.

Understanding BIM presents the story of Building Information Modelling, an ever evolving and disruptive technology that has transformed the methodologies of the global construction industry.

Developing countries face the challenge of maintaining economic growth and socio-economic development, at the core of which sits the construction industry.

Wine is one of the oldest forms of alcoholic beverages known to man.

This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This work focuses on the application of fundamental cost engineering principles to the capital and operating costs estimation of major projects.

Poisonous plants are used in traditional medicine systems in various healing therapies.