Agribusiness and primary industries

This book aims to explore the groundbreaking intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and agriculture, focusing on how innovative technologies can be harnessed to create sustainable and resilient food systems.

LeadingGreen: LEED(R) Green Associate Exam v4 Study Guide brings together a concise introduction to the core concepts behind the LEED green building rating system with efficient, effective test preparation for the LEED(R) Green Associate Exam.

This book highlights the production of green composites from various sustainable raw materials.

Ratified by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993 and expanded in 2018, "e;Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration),"e; or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of principles shared by people-religious or not.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book develops a model to evaluate and assess life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions based on typical Australian commercial building design options.

Food and nutrition security is a major concern for Saudi Arabia and the surrounding regions due to the range of challenges they face.

This book grasps the opportunity to show the strength of AGMEMOD in terms of baseline analysis at detailed regional and market levels, supported by an experienced team of country-based modellers.

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (SDGs), agricultural productivity and sustainability, and climate change - mitigation and adaptation.

This book analyses the implementation and challenges of using Geographical Indications in Norway.

This book analyzes the impacts of current and possible future GM crop applications and shows that these technologies can contribute substantially to sustainable agricultural development and food security.

Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation.

Geophysical exploration methods are very expensive and invasive methods for surveys.

Manipulating the design process can be a stressful learning experience and it can be difficult to decide how to resolve design problems.

Natural soft soils are very complex materials.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

Construction Scheduling, Cost Optimization and Management presents a general mathematical formula for the scheduling of construction projects.

The variety of applications of PFC has continued to increase in the ten years since the first release of these programs.

This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic account of the multi-level governance system adopted by China in realizing the Dual-Carbon transition.

This book analyses the important role of agribusiness and rural enterprises in economic growth and development.

The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms and local communities.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of each aspect of offshore operations including conventional methods of operations, emerging technologies, legislations, health, safety and environment impact of offshore operations.

The global population is projected to increase by 3.

Rapid structural transformation and urbanization are transforming agriculture and food production in rural areas across the world.

The book provides primary information about civil engineering to both a civil and non-civil engineering audience in areas such as construction management, estate management, and building.

This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry.

This book focuses on the various refinery products, product improvement processes, and solvent processes that are used in the refining industry and the processes used in product improvement to ensure products meet sales specifications.

Global population by 2050 is predicted to be over 9 billion and accordingly, the production systems will demolish about 140 billion tons per year of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass, i.

This book of case studies is designed to provide useful information for instructional purposes and for those interested in the management of Asian agribusiness.

The interrelations between accounting and food have been hitherto neglected at an international level.

Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man's ecological destruction in an industrial framework.

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural design-from conception to construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers.

This book is an illustrative introduction to metamorphic rocks as seen in the field, designed for advanced high school to graduate-level earth science and geology students to jump-start their observational skills.

A key goal of fisheries management is to regulate extractive pressure on a resource so as to ensure social, economic and ecological sustainability.

Written by an internationally-recognized team of natural gas industry experts, the fourth edition of Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and Processing is a unique, well-researched, and comprehensive work on the design and operation aspects of natural gas transmission and processing.

There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities.

This book is the first to fully explore the short- and long-term impact of the global electric car rollout on the supply of raw materials.

This book presents computational tools and design principles for piles used in a wide range of applications and for different loading conditions.

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the ever-growing relevance of input-output analysis in problem solving.

This sociolegal study focuses on the political, legal and institutional problems and dilemmas of regulating land tenure.

Advances in Phytonanotechnology: From Synthesis to Application guides readers through various applications of nanomaterials on plants by presenting the latest research related to nanotechnology and nanomaterials on plant systems.

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics.

This book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), held on September 7-8, 2017, in Manchester, UK.

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).

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a key technology in the food industry that facilitates real-time visibility of items as they move through the supply chain and on to the end-consumer.

The Craft and Science of Coffee follows the coffee plant from its origins in East Africa to its current role as a global product that influences millions of lives though sustainable development, economics, and consumer desire.

An expanded and updated edition of the original 'Geology of Egypt and Libya'.

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

The organic products market is experiencing rapid growth.