Agricultural science

Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers.

***e FACHGEBIET*** Mathematical Geology, Computer Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Urban Economics and Regional Economics ***INTERESSENTENGRUPPE*** Of interest to Urban and Regional planners, civil engineers, geographers; computer scientists; operations researchers; landscape architects; and advanced students in the above disciplines.

This book details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation"e;, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

Energy in Agroecosystems: A Tool for Assessing Sustainability is the first book on energy analysis that is up-to-date and specifically dedicated to agriculture.

This book presents a new way of viewing contaminated soil-as a resource that in many instances can be recovered.

This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean.

From Mediterranean Europe to Chile and from China to Australia, chestnut cultivation surface has greatly increased globally over the last several decades.

It has been observed that rapid population expansion has raised the amount of anthropogenic activity, resulting in high levels of pollution in water, air, and solid waste as well as an increase in the pressure placed on agricultural lands.

This textbook takes a truly international approach towards agricultural economics, uniting many different perspectives on the subject and providing insight into agriculture in general, and into how practical farming works in particular.

This book explains the hypoplastic modelling framework.

The Agrarian Question and its resolution in the global context of capitalist development has a protracted scholarship developed over last one century and more.

The Earth on Trial examines the degree to which the law has accommodated an increased understanding of the natural environment.

Agricultural research is one of the most widespread forms of organized research in the world, in both developed and developing countries.

This new volume provides a comprehensive overview of the new and diverse technologies in food packaging of fruits and vegetables, providing an emphasis on new commercially available packaging technologies for fresh produce.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land.

Soil and Environmental Chemistry, Second Edition, presents key aspects of soil chemistry in environmental science, including dose responses, risk characterization, and practical applications of calculations using spreadsheets.

This edited book systematically discusses the advances in biotechnology, agrotechnology, and food technology in shaping sesame production, cultivation and uses to meet the future needs.

This volume is aimed at offering an insight into the present knowledge of the vast domain of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants with a focus on North America.

This book focuses on food security and safety issues in Africa, a continent presently challenged with malnutrition and food insecurity.

The book deals with agroecological aspects of nutrients essential to crop production.

Providing material for practitioners and students alike, Chemical Exposure and Toxic Responses is a clear and straightforward presentation of industrial toxicology.

Peanut is an important crop in the semi-arid regions of the world.

SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!

Floricultural crops all over the world are challenged by a number of insect and mite pests.

I write because I am concerned that I and my agricultural colleagues have avoided addressing the moral dimension of the environmental and social problems we have contributed to.

This book continues as volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy.

The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of hydrology, environmental engineering, agricultural engineering, earth sciences, and watershed and range sciences, as well as to those engaged in water resources planning, development and management in arid and semi-arid areas.

The book addresses the gap that exists in sustainable value chain development in the context of developing and emerging economies in meeting the sustainable development goals.

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.

Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today's modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural-systems agriculture.

I intend to fill, with this book, a need that has long been felt by students and professionals in many areas of agricultural, biological, natural, and environmental sciences-the need for a comprehensive reference book on many important aspects of trace elements in the "e;land"e; environment.

The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops.

Pandemics are often associated with viruses and bacteria occurring in wildlife in natural environments.

This book reports the proceedings of the symposium, "e;Chinese Rural Development: Strategies and Experience,"e; organized by the China Com-mittee of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) and held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 30, 1989.

This book provides essential insights into methods and practices of 'Climate-smart Agriculture,' which is driven by the principles of climate resilience and smart resource use in agricultural production.

Degradation of agricultural catchments due to water erosion is a major environmental threat at the global scale, with long-lasting destructive consequences valued at tens of billions of dollars per annum.

This second edition of Geotechnical Slope Analysis is an updated version of the original scholarly book.

Viruserkrankungen von Mensch und Tier, wie etwa Influenza, Masern, Aids oder Maul- und Klauenseuche, sind in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt und neue Forschungsergebnisse und Therapievorschläge zu diesen Krankheiten werden durch die Medien verbreitet und diskutiert.

Large areas of the warm, humid tropics in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa are hilly or mountainous.

Focused on the mechanics of managing environmental data, this book provides guidelines on how to evaluate data requirements, assess tools and techniques, and implement an effective system.

This volume 2 of a two-volume work provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the most common viral and parasitic diseases in turkeys.

The elapsing time from producer to consumer has significantly increased as a result of food marketing and trade globalization.

This book highlights the technicalities of plant breeding in a seed-business environment and explains the crucial aspects of the value chain.

While environmental catastrophes can be naturally occurring, often they are the result of criminal intent or malfeasance.

This up-to-date reference book discusses the effects of climate change on the biodiversity of insect pests.