Agricultural science

Aquaculture in the Ecosystem - An Introduction The growth of Aquaculture and its future role as a food supplier to human society has environmental, social and economic limitations, affecting marine ecosystems and socio-economic scales from local to global.

This comprehensive guide to potato production systems management contains 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs.

The first edition of Understanding Vineyard Soils has been praised for its comprehensive coverage of soil topics relevant to viticulture.

Landscapes are being degraded and simplified across the globe.

There is growing knowledge about and appreciation of the importance of Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in developing countries, and to a lesser extent, developed countries.

The aim of this volume is to collect and present available data, both published and unpublished, on energy use in agriculture and forestry production.

Originally published between 1973 and 1981, this Allen and Unwin series published single authored volumes on nine key political philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Karl Marx.

This book presents novel communication technology solutions to address the effects of climate change and climate variability on agriculture, with a particular focus on those that increase agricultural production.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding.

More than 20 million childhood deaths occur every year due to the micronutrient deficiency and diet-related non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes).

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty.

Written by three of the top professionals in the turfgrass field, Managing Turfgrass Pests, Second Edition brings together hundreds of solutions and best practices to help you manage turfgrass weeds, diseases, and insects more effectively.

The preventive methods described have proved highly effective.

First published in 1910, this volume was the result of fifteen years of study in the American Northwest.

The rapid increase in environmental measurements during the past few decades is associated with (1) increasing awareness of the complex relations linking biological responses to atmospheric variables, (2) development of improved data acquisition and handling equipment, (3) the application of modeling to environmental problems, and (4) the implementation of large, cooperative studies of international scope.

This informative new book takes an interdisciplinary look at agricultural and food production and how new engineering practices can be used to enhance production.

This book, by way of a comparative analysis of the main economic viewpoints of the Chinese and Western traditions, shows that the theories of the Physiocrats originated, in a significant way, from ancient Chinese economic thought.

An authoritative reference on food system transformation and how it can be achieved in the face of climate change.

Throughout the past few decades, the standard answer to the problem of low productivity in small private forests has been education.

This book identifies the root causes of income inequality in underdeveloped economies and proposes new solutions for structural reform in economies that have long neglected and exploited working people.

Industries are developing radical, new biotechnology processes to expand and develop their range of products that originate from the world's forests.

Contaminated Soils Volume 9 contains 38 technical papers, covering a wide range of environmental issues.

Better validation of indigenous domestic animal genetic resources is becoming more important with regard to the potential of livestock for poverty alleviation and income generation.

The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.

By the year 2050, the world's population is expected to reach nine billion.

Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies comprises a selection of sixteen newly written essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives.

Echinoderms and prochordates occupy a key position in vertebrate evolution.

First published in 1987, Agricultural Extension Worldwide presents an international perspective on agricultural extension and highlights extension as an integral function of agricultural development.

By the year 2050, the world's population is expected to reach nine billion.

Knowledge of Africa's complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security.

New trends of mineral deposits mining in the world consist of intensifying and concentration of mining operations.

Laterite Soil Engineering is one of a few books about solving engineering problems with the help of engineering pedology.

Acid rain is a serious international environmental problem.

Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer.

Psychology for Sustainability applies psychological science to so-called environmental problems that manifest when human behavior disrupts and degrades natural systems.

Plant growth regulators or plant bio-regulators have emerged as a powerful tool for improving the performance of horticultural crops in general and fruit crops in particular.

The book deals with the application of fungi and the strategic management of some plant pathogens.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 10th internationalsymposium Humus et Planta held in Prague in August 19-23,1991.

Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments.

Advanced Computational Techniques for Sustainable Computing is considered multi-disciplinary field encompassing advanced computational techniques across several domain, including, Computer Science, Statistical Computation and Electronics Engineering.

This book gives details of collections of potato varieties in European Community (EC) countries, in alphabetical order and shows the health status of each variety.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

In these books, we bring together and correlate recent information known to have a prominent influence on the rate of movement of pollutants from wastes and their leachates in the soil.

This is the first world history of peasants.

This book presents a compilation of information on the taxonomy, chorology, and composition of species and subspecies of the plants under various divisions of the family of Araceae and Orchidaceae found in Siberia.

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science is the first-ever single-source reference work to inclusively cover classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science and agriculture.

This Book was written to serve those interested in seed pathology.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of scorpion biology and the medical implications of their venoms.