Agribusiness and primary industries

To meet the rising demand for scientific evidence in the context of rural tourism research, this book explores tourism and tourism-related diversification activities performed by farming households and entrepreneurs in rural communities.

Millions of lives and businesses have either been lost or significantly impacted by COVID-19.

This book provides an insightful exploration of agribusiness entrepreneurship in the dynamic landscape of the global economy.

This Handbook provides the knowledge needed to design and deploy proactive construction project procurement and delivery systems based on essentials while addressing emerging construction industry imperatives in order to boost overall performance.

This book examines an issue of constant concern in the construction industry, that of productivity.

Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale.

This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical eras.

The oyster trade worldwide is of huge commercial importance, and the demand for high quality oysters is rising all the time.

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition.

Climate change and increased climate variability in terms of rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and increasing extreme weather events, such as severe drought and devastating floods, pose a threat to the production of agricultural and horticultural crops-a threat this is expected to worsen.

Papers of the Second International Symposium on Continous Surface Mining held in Austin, TX, Oct.

It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber.

Significant advances have occurred in recent years in Europe and in North America in addressing agri-environmental policies.

Fish lives in environments with a wide variety of chemical characteristics (fresh, brackish and seawater, acidic, alkaline, soft and hard waters).

This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution.

Their natural enemies largely determine the population size and dynamic behavior of many plant-eating insects.

There is increasing scrutiny of the safety, environmental and social impact of food production.

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the wheat production developments in the Eurasian region and assesses the potential contribution of the region to domestic and international food security.

This book is a novel contribution to a field dominated by conventional approaches to project management; it is about narratives in megaprojects.

Practical Concrete Mix Design has been compiled to help readers understand the concrete mix design methodology, including formulas and tables involved in the pertinent steps.

This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods.

Handbook of Sampling Methods for Arthropods in Agriculture offers a comprehensive look at the principles and practicality of developing accurate sampling programs for arthropod pests and their arthropod enemies.

Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South.

This book explains forest and woody biomass harvest, harvesting machines, systems, logistics, supply chain management, best management practices, harvest scheduling and carbon sequestration.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

Tribological Aspects of Additive Manufacturing provides a technical discussion on the roles of the 3D printing process in processing polymeric-, metallic-, and ceramics-based additive manufactured products in order to improve the tribological properties.

Krill, or euphausiids, a group of immense importance in marine ecosystems, comprises over 80 species, most of which are planktonic.

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of contemporary research on key topics in the field, as well as presenting the history of how the economic theory of fisheries exploitation has developed.

Today's business environment involves design decisions with significant uncertainty.

Many of the struggles that we are currently experiencing when attempting to implement Lean in the construction environment are the direct result of applying Lean tools out of proper context.

This book critically assesses categorical divisions between indigenous individual and collective rights regimes embedded in the foundations of international human rights law.

America's broken food system has provoked an outcry from consumer advocates seeking to align food policies with public health objectives.

Although introduction of amino acid chelates in mineral nutrition initially met considerable skepticism and controversy, the greater absorption and bioavailability of amino acid chelated minerals compared to nonchelated minerals have been well-documented for decades.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.

One of the themes of the 20th International Congress of Entomology held in Florence in August 1996 was Ecology and Population Dynamics, with papers presented on single species dynamics, population interactions, and community ecology.

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The study of rock dynamics is important because many rock mechanics and rock engineering problems involve dynamic loading ranging from earthquakes to vibrations and explosions.

This is the first book to provide a detailed treatment of the field of larval ecology.

Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas.

This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, and why people eat in national parks and how this has changed over the last century.

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Algae for Food: Cultivation, Processing and Nutritional BenefitsAlgae are a primitive, living photosynthetic form and they are the oldest living organism.

Research into ecotoxicology can be classified into three fundamental concerns: abiotic factors, which characterize the physicochemistry of environments; biotic factors, relating to biological structures and functions; and contamination factors, which define the modes of pollution of ecosystems.

This volume covers the advances in the study of tomato diversity and taxonomy.

Vertebrate invasive species are important ecologically, socially, and scientifically throughout much of the globe.

The current high demand for fish and increased awareness of the role of the environment in supporting human well being has led to a situation where attitudes to inland water resources are changing rapidly.