Agribusiness and primary industries

This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has on agricultural productivity and agriculture-dependent communities.

This book aims to present an alternative based on natural processes and an environmental approach to post-excavation site management, e.

This new edition of John Illingworth's popular book provides a thorough introduction to the selection of construction methods, their planning and organization on site.

A public health approach to the US food system Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society.

Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section.

This collection of symposium papers covers a wide range of topics on rock fragmentation, from carefully documented case studies to attempts, for example, at fractal representation of the fracture process itself.

The Rhine River is Europes most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

ABAQUS software is a general-purpose finite element simulation package mainly used for numerically solving a wide variety of design engineering problems; however, its application to simulate the dynamic structures within the civil engineering domain is highly complicated.

This is a book about the intersection of architecture and security, about effective crime prevention and counterterror using the built form.

This unique volume presents up-to-date information and the latest research findings on unconventional water resources in Egypt and their connections to agriculture.

Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity.

A collection of the most advanced and authoritative agricultural-economic research in the face of increasing water scarcity.

The use of concrete and mortar containing coal fly ash, blast furnace slag, and other dispersed technogenic materials is one of the major areas of potential resource savings and improving the environmental efficiency and sustainability of construction.

Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer.

The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states.

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

This book contributes to the adoption of agricultural technology in general and to literature on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in particular by identifying the factors that influence the decision to adopt SRI and examining SRI's impact on household income and yield.

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

This book presents the proceedings of the international symposium on geotechnical stability in surface mining in Calgary.

Originally published in 1999.

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the factors which lead to successful innovation in Chinese industry.

This title was originally published in 1976.

The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans place in the universe can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society.

This dictionary contains 1980 terms, 325 symbols, 77 acronyms, abbreviations and shortened forms, 221 references, 32 figures, 57 formulae, and 28 tables.

This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future.

Avoid Costly Mistakes for Specialists and Non-Specialists AlikeBad acoustics in buildings is a nuisance that is not dealt with easily.

Serving as a comprehensive resource that builds a bridge between engineering disciplines and the building sciences and trades, Forensic Engineering: Damage Assessments for Residential and Commercial Structures, Second Edition provides an extensive look into the world of forensic engineering.

Identifying, interpreting, and managing soil constraints are major challenges, especially when multiple constraints occur in the same soil at various depth zones.

This book deals with one of the major challenges facing human society and its governments, climate change and variability.

Solidly grounded in Chinese primary sources, Neo Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality engages the latest global scholarship to provide an innovative, rigorous, and clear articulation of neo-Confucianism and its application to Western philosophy.

The notion that humanity may be too late to alter climate change could potentially lead to fear and therefore the advocacy of implementing radical strategies and/or hastening the execution of certain measures to the extreme.

Originally published in 1984, this book provides an introduction to the history of agriculture in Western Europe, states the case for government intervention and analyses the operation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the late 20th Century.

This book provides insights to the lay person as well as the experts who are actively enabling these changes in the construction industry.

First published in 1999, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and their conditions of change.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

Over a decade ago the World Petroleum Council launched an initiative to hold an international professional youth forum.

The emergence of a world economy depends on the reorganization of agriculture and food systems to provision the work force and the industries associated with the division of labor.

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces.

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World-not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.

The aim of this book is to provide a single source of information to support continuing professional development (CPD) in the built environment sector.

Energy Reviews: Unified Gas Supply System of the USSR (1985) explores some important aspects of the development and operation of the unified gas system of the Soviet Union.

In this textbook for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students, Dr Ali and colleagues provide the reader with information on the effect of Industrial Revolution 4.

This reference book extensively examines the important role of biotechnology in tackling the global challenge of achieving zero hunger.

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

This book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects.

This edited volume celebrates the positive stories and small changes happening with respect to gender equality in the field of agriculture.

China's Rural Economy after WTO discusses and analyses China's rural sector problems in detail, including the areas of poverty, income inequality, the gender gap, barriers of rural-urban migration, discrimination against rural workers, poor rural governance and the impact of WTO membership.

This book focuses on agglomeration, or the size enlargement process, of iron ores.