Agribusiness and primary industries

This book presents over 40 cases of bamboo development across 22 major bamboo-industry countries and explores the knowledge gained from their successes and failures.

The history of mining is replete with controversy of which much is related to environmental damage and consequent community outrage.

This monograph on the continuous casting of steel has been produced at the request of the Institute of Materials with the aim of providing university professionals and students, those already working in the steel industry and steel plant suppliers in related activities, with a concise account of the engineering, process and product technology of the continuous casting of steel and how this has been developed over recent years.

This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933.

Building Product Models thoroughly presents the concepts, technology, and methods now used to work out what will become the building product model - a new, digital representation for architecture, civil engineering, and building construction.

The utilization of machine learning (ML) techniques to understand hidden patterns and build data-driven predictive models from complex multivariate datasets is rapidly increasing in many applied science and engineering disciplines, including geo-energy.

This book covers aspects of data science and predictive analytics used in the oil and gas industry by looking into the challenges of data processing and data modelling unique to this industry.

Advanced Reservoir and Production Engineering for Coal Bed Methane presents the reader with design systems that will maximize production from worldwide coal bed methane reservoirs.

Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades.

In the arsenal of ways of carbon consumption and emissions reduction, the main tasks of modern metallurgy, briquetting occupies significant places.

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

This volume, illustrated with many photographs and drawings, commemorates the centenary of the death of Sir Henry Bessemer, one of the outstanding inventors of the 19th century.

Subsurface investigation is the most important phase of any civil engineering construction or development activities.

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central role in driving both of these.

Agroecology is a science, a productive practice, and part of a social movement that is at the forefront of transforming food systems to sustainability.

In large surface mining operations, drilling and blasting activities constitute more than 15% of the total costs.

This book enriches the readers with the advances in rock blasting techniques for mining and civil construction rock excavation projects, including the need for and importance of rock blasting, related theories, challenges in rock blasting operations, and rock blasting methodology for excavation of coal and overburden benches of opencast coal mines.

This book provides a detailed guide to the selection and use of aggregates in concrete.

Plant Biotechnology comprehensively covers different aspects of the subject based on the latest outcomes of this field.

Published in 1999, this book explores the emergence of contemporary urban agriculture as well as official attitudes toward this practice.

In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar.

This book provides the fundamental concepts of fire protection as they relate to site planning.

Eco-Friendly Technology for Postharvest Produce Quality presents the scope of emerging eco-friendly technologies to maintain the postharvest quality of fresh produce in terms of safety and nutrition.

James Beard Award-winning journalists expose food industry secrets in "e;the Kitchen Confidential of the big-ticket catering world"e; (New York Times).

The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest of 2020-2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India.

As oil-rich Mexico faces the 1980s, conflicts between agrarian populism and capitalist industrialization call for resolution.

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history.

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on the political and social perspectives that commons offer, how they are appropriated or suppressed by capital and state, and how social initiatives and movements contest these dynamics or build their struggles on commoning.

The third edition of the Construction Project Manager's Pocket Book continues to guide and educate readers on the broad range of essential skills required to be a successful construction project manager.

This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds.

Concise, problem-oriented, and accessibly designed, the Pocket Handbook focuses on the essentials of medicine and surgery of the dog and cat.

In most developing countries, agriculture has grown from merely an art to a science, but it does not yet maximize its business potential.

Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK.

Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries.

Interest in the topic of structural reliability and optimal design has been rapidly growing in recent years.

The debate on health, nutrition and food security could not have arisen at a more opportune time.

The advent of new biotechnologies implies significant changes in the world, both biologically and industrially.

Originally published in 1989, this book is a clear and thorough guide to the workings and purpose of the futures markets.

Principles of Private and Public Planning (1951) looks at a key economic question: plan or no plan?

Seismic Imaging Methods and Application for Oil and Gas Exploration connects the legacy of field data processing and imaging with new research methods using diffractions and anisotropy in the field of geophysics.

Advanced Algorithms for Mineral and Hydrocarbon Exploration Using Synthetic Aperture Radar is a research- and practically-based reference that bridges the gap between the remote sensing industry and the mineral and hydrocarbon exploration industry.

This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science.

This book presents a synopsis, with an innovative approach, of abundance, types and conditions of work performed in the tropical plantation and natural forests.

It is believed that the major countries of the former Soviet Union-specifically Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine (KRU region)-are the part of the world with the most potential to increase food supplies and strengthen world food security.