Agricultural science

Aphids Unveiled: The Saga of Nature's Most Irritating Insects explores the curious journey of these tiny insects from humble beginnings to becoming the most obnoxious pests for farmers and home gardeners alike.

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature.

Agriculture faces many challenges to fulfil the growing demand for sustainable food production and ensure high-quality nutrition for a rapidly growing population.

Farm credit and tax policies have become increasingly important areas of concern for policymakers and agriculturists.

This book describes the development of genetic resources in amaranths, with a major focus on genomics, reverse, and forward genetics tools and strategies that have been developed for crop improvement.

The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared public open space land use form in New York City's low-come neighborhoods like the South Bronx since the 1970s.

The global population is increasing rapidly, and feeding the ever-increasing population poses a serious challenge for agriculturalists around the world.

This book analyses the multidimensional condition of the Romanian industrial landscape, which played host to a multitude of demo-economic, financial, trade, and trans- and inter-sectoral development practices before the intense period of European deindustrialisation.

Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation.

This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale.

First published in 1983.

While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global perspective.

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Over the last century, the world has lived through changes more rapid than those experienced at any other time in human history, leading to pressing environmental problems and demands on the world's finite resources.

Designed to demystify chemistry for the non-chemist, Rapid Review of Chemistry for the Life Sciences and Engineering is a useful reference manual for life scientists and engineers, who may have forgotten a formula, principle, or concept in the college chemistry taken a few years ago.

Agriculture and industry are the two most important economic sectors for various countries around the globe, providing millions of jobs as well as being the main source of income for these countries.

Biomedical research is the first step towards the creation of new medications and treatments that help to manage different types of health conditions and diseases.

This book is dealing with the crop protection in soybean covering all the major insects' pests, diseases and weeds infesting soybean.

This book provides a comprehensive history of Brazilian agricultural economic development between 1890 and 1950.

The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves.

This book provides up-to-date information on the concepts and technologies in decentralized sanitation for wastewater treatment and management.

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.

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Soil Health and Intensification of Agroecosystems examines the climate, environmental, and human effects on agroecosystems and how the existing paradigms must be revised in order to establish sustainable production.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book introduces the highly topical issue from many different angles, sensitizing readers to the various challenges to human life posed by climate change, identifying possible intentional and inadvertent anthropogenic factors and consequences, and seeking socially and environmentally viable solutions.

This termite Volume 2 comprises 13 chapters in an attempt to bring all available information on sustainable and eco-friendly termite management.

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This book offers comprehensive coverage of all manifestations of resistance in combating infectious diseases and explores advances in antimicrobial resistance in agriculture and their applications in the fight against microbes.

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 4 of this essential seriesfurnishes information on the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding oilseed crop varieties.

Few processes are as important for environmental geochemistry as the interplay between the oxidation and reduction of dissolved and solid species.

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

This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.

Interest in insect behavior is growing rapidly, as reflected both in courses devoted fully to the topic and in its inclusion in general biology, ecology, invertebrate zoology, and animal behavior--as well as general entomology--curricula.

Bringing Bayesian Models to Life empowers the reader to extend, enhance, and implement statistical models for ecological and environmental data analysis.

Originally published in 1971, this book is a systematic study of the major features and factors of the location and distribution of global agricultural enterprises.

Bamboo is in the spotlight as a potential building material in the current pursuit of a CO2-neutral society, due to its rapid maturation and excellent mechanical properties.

This seris keeps scientists and advanced studentsspecialized on a particular subject informed of the latestdevelopments and results in all different areas of botany.

Die erfolgreiche Einführung stellt die Probleme im Umweltbereich aus ganzheitlicher Sicht und auf dem aktuellen Wissensstand dar.

Tropical Africa escaped from the glaciers that covered the temperate parts of the world during the Ice Age.

Biologically active compounds isolated from microorganisms continue to be vital to the development of new drugs and agricultural chemicals.

Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations.

Abiotic stresses such as drought, flooding, high or low temperatures, metal toxicity and salinity can hamper plant growth and development.

The price of food has become very volatile in recent years for a variety of reasons, including a strengthened connection between the prices of agricultural commodities and other commodities such as oil and metals, more volatile production due to more frequent droughts and floods, and a rising demand for biofuels.

Water is an essential resource for agriculture, but harvesting water for irrigation is a major issue for farmers in developing and underdeveloped countries.

This book includes 20 different chapters, where the authors have addressed various aspects of the cultivation, taxonomy, socio-economic importance and breeding and development as applied to neglected and underutilized crops.