Agricultural science

This book offers perspectives on more productive, sustainable and resilient modes of agriculture.

Large numbers of tropical trees from natural forests or plantation forest are available for human consumption and management.

This book provides a unique account of cross-sectoral innovations through efficient partnerships based on the hands-on experience of internationally renowned contributors specialised in the field of Science of Delivery.

Feeding an expanding population in light of environmental preservation and keeping production lean is a considerable challenge.

Peanut Agriculture and Production Technology: Integrated Nutrient Management focuses on agricultural techniques and integrated nutrient management of peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.

This book highlights the different ways of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) practices that conserve natural resources sustainably.

Responsible Manufacturing has become an obligation to the environment and to society itself, enforced primarily by customer perspective and governmental regulations on environmental issues.

This work brings together a wealth of data regarding the reference values and factors of variation in biochemical parameters used by camel veterinarians and scientists to determine these animals' nutritional and clinical status.

,With tens of millions of hectares and hundreds of millions of lives in the balance, the debate over who should control South Asia,s forests is of tremendous political significance.

The aim of this book is to highlight the role that gender research can play in understanding natural resource management and rural development issues in the Middle East and North Africa region and how hands-on training and mentoring can be used as a capacity enhancement approach.

This third volume on environmental nanotechnology includes chapters dealing with topics such nanoremediation, waste water purification, nanosensors, nanomedicine, and nanofiltration.

This edited book is focused on Sustainable Development Goal 2.

This book focuses on multiple plant stresses and the molecular basis of adaptation, addressing the molecular mechanism and adaptation for both abiotic and biotic stresses.

Originally published in 1975, Man and Wildlife traces the evolution of man from pre-hominid ancestors, and his influence in modifying the environment and its flora and fauna as technical knowledge grew.

Soybean (Glycine max L.

This book will be useful both to those new to spatial uncertainty assessment and to experienced practitioners.

This book was first published in 1983.

This 4-volume set focuses on the use of microbial bioremediation and phytoremediation to clean up pollutants in soil, such as pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, and chlorinated solvents, which reduce the soil's fertility and renders it unfit for plant growth.

This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world.

Biotic stresses cause yield loss of 31-42% in crops in addition to 6-20% during post-harvest stage.

Covering the most important pathogens, this handbook provides clear, concise descriptions of the symptoms and cycles of diseases and disorders, and the pests that commonly prey on potato crops, their distribution and importance, and advice on their control.

In recent years the increased awareness of environmental issues has led to the development of new approaches to product design, known as Design for Environment and Life Cycle Design.

This volume has been produced for the XI 11th EUCARPIA Congress.

This book is an economic history of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910).

Exactly 35 years after the first Colloquium was held, the Eleventh International Plant Nutrition Colloquium took place from 30 July to 4 August 1989 in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

An increasingly hot-button issue, genetically modified (GM) food is considered by some as the best way to feed the world's growing population, and by others as an experiment gone wrong on the unsuspecting public.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic?

This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance.

This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith geoscience describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation.

This volume describes the contributions made by women scientists to the field of agricultural biotechnology, the most quickly adopted agricultural practice ever adopted.

This book provides descriptions of current laboratory accreditation schemes and explains why these schemes fall short of assuring data purchasers that the data produced from accredited laboratories are always quality products.

Explore the benefits of and necessity for sustainable agriculture!

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.

As the first volume in a unique series concentrating on in-depth discussions of GIS topics, GIS Applications in Agriculture examines ways that this powerful technology can help farmers/firms to produce a greater abundance of crops with more efficiency and at lower costs.

This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach - as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach.

This new volume emphasizes the drastic quantitative and qualitative transformation of our surrounding environment and looks at bioresource management and the tools needed to manageenvironmental stresses.

This book explores the nature of challenges facing agriculture, emphasizing the need to rethink how markets are organized in food production.

Although plant genes were first isolated only some twelve years ago and transfer of foreign DNA into tobacco cells first demonstrated some eight years ago, the application and extension of biotechnology to agricultural problems has already led to the field-testing of genetically modified crop plants.

This book focuses on recent advances in biosensors and nanosensors to monitor, manage and improve horticultural crops in terms of plant growth, nutrient deficiency, toxicity, diseases, abiotic stress, soil amendments and agrochemicals entry into surrounding environment.

Plant diseases are a serious threat to food production.

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker.

Bioinformatics is an integrative field of computer science, genetics, genomics, proteomics, and statistics, which has undoubtedly revolutionized the study of biology and medicine in past decades.

This book presents a detailed overview and critical evaluation of the state of the art and latest approaches in genetic manipulation studies on plants to mitigate the impact of climate change on growth and productivity.

This reference provides in-depth coverage of the history and current status of the fuel ethanol industry in the United States.

This book covers the basics of animal manure, or animal dung, and highlights its applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

Agronomic crops have been a source of foods, beverages, fodders, fuels, medicines and industrial raw materials since the dawn of human civilization.

Agriculture is the science or occupation of cultivating land and rearing crops and livestock.

This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage the associated risks.