Agribusiness and primary industries

Safety in Petroleum Industries covers pertinent safety aspects and precautions to be taken for design, operation, maintenance, inspection and project constructions for petroleum industries, with an emphasis on petroleum refineries.

The Lentil Genome is a comprehensive volume on this important legume, from its economic importance to the latest in sequencing.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates.

This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China.

The Estimator's Pocket Book, Third Edition is a concise and practical reference cover-ing the main approaches to pricing, as well as useful information such as how to process sub-contractor quotations, tender settlement and adjudication.

The book is an outcome of the author's active professional involvement in research, manufacture and consultancy in the field of cement chemistry and process engineering.

Discussing rock breakage by blasting, this text includes: results of complex investigations into the rock breakage mechanism and the patterns of crack formation during a blast; problems of modelling; and principal equations linking the model with prototype and similarity criteria.

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

This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism.

While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past.

This book presents techniques for building and optimizing structures with integrated solar energy systems.

There has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers.

This book explores innovative strategies for repurposing food waste, with a strong focus on process and product design.

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

An introduction to the theory and practical application of CSEM methods to explore whether subsurface structures contain hydrocarbons.

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context?

The basic principles of geomechanical processes occurring in mine workings during the extraction of minerals are discussed in this monograph.

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

An in-depth, comprehensible approach to theoretical soil mechanics and an introduction to the new theory of barodesy.

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.

One of the most pressing problems facing the construction industry globally is the deterioration of major concrete infrastructure in marine and other chloride-containing environments.

Rope guidance of conveyances is commonly used in shafts of underground mines in numerous countries on almost every continent.

This book provides a straightforward approach to explaining engineering economics that is appropriate for members of all of the major engineering disciplines.

Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential deals with the evolution and tectonic significance of the Triassic evaporite rocks in the Alpine orogenic system and the Neogene basins in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, and the western Mediterranean.

Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and industry adoption of waste minimization guidelines have thus, stimulated the need for the development of recycling and reuse options for metal related waste.

Landslides and slope failure are common in the US and rest of the world.

This book compiles topics on how financial inclusion, from either unidimensional or multidimensional perspectives, can be used as a viable policy tool to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) in rural/regional areas.

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas.

Maintaining bridges in good condition has extended service life and proven to be more cost effective than allowing degradation to advance, necessitating costlier bridge rehabilitation or replacement projects.

Originally published in 1982, this was the first in-depth study of the labour system of the South African gold mining industry during the crucial years 1886 to 1906.

This volume presents a thorough analysis of the concept and role of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) within the EU legal framework with a two-fold aim: first, it shows the pitfalls of the current legal scenario, which often limits alternatives rather than promoting them, and second, it provides a new conceptualisation for SFSCs under EU law by delineating and integrating all their distinctive features.

This volume examines the integration of water resource management for sustainable utilization with the optimum allocation of water use for regional economic development.

With global revenue surpassing twenty-five billion dollars annually, organic agriculture is a highly visible and rapidly growing component of agricultural production.

Design and Construction of Concrete Floors outlines the key principles needed for the production of a good floor which can be relied on to not only support and restrain other parts of the building, but also to meet the needs of the user.

The Community of Oil Exporting Countries (1972) looks at the oil producing countries of the developing world and their economic reliance on oil.

In a continuously changing world, there has been a growing interest in the protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture.

Innovating Construction Law: Towards the Digital Age takes a speculative look at current and emerging technologies and examines how legal practice in the construction industry can best engage with the landscape they represent.

The BDA Guide to Successful Brickwork is the definitive practical guide to obtaining successful results in brickwork construction.

Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly.

Peanuts: Processing Technology and Product Development provides an overall review of the latest peanut and peanut-related research development worldwide, including not only peanut production and processing progress, but also peanut-related product (oil, protein) production technologies, and by-products utilization technologies (peptides, polyphenol, polysaccharide, and dietary fiber).

The process of spraying concrete is one of the most versatile concrete placing techniques, and is used in a wide range of applications - from construction of new tunnels, domes, tanks and pools, to repair and strengthening of existing structure.

This book represents a first attempt to investigate the relations between Law and Agroecology.

The proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Mining in the Arctic, held in Greenland in 2001.

This book conducts a comparative study between Confucian political philosophy and contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition.

Selenium plays a significant role in preventing certain types of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.