Agriculture and farming

This Special Issue of Water, Air and Soil Pollution offers original contributions from BIOGEOMON, an international symposium on ecosystem behavior and the evaluation of integrated monitoring of small catchments, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 1993.

The understanding of plant-soil interactions in acid soils is important for improved food production in many parts of the world.

This publication presents the lectures given at the course on Advanced Separation Technology for Industrial Waste Minimization: Environmental and Analytical Aspects (13-15 October, 1992, Ispra, Italy) organized jointly by the Technical University of Lisbon, University of Calabria and the Environment Institute of the Joint Research Centre of the Commission of the European Communities at Ispra.

This volume characterizes the current state of natural science and socioeconomic modeling of the impacts of climate change and current climate variability on forests, grasslands, and water.

In the coming decades the world will need to more than double its food and feed production, almost all of the increase being needed in developing countries.

Collapsing engineering soils are a formidable hazard around the world.

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Dr Samuel Johnson, that famous eighteenth century lexicographer, said of oats 'A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people'.

Over the past three decades there has been a dramatic increase in theoretical and practical studies on insect natural enemies.

During its 200-year history the concept of sustainable forest ecosystem management has been the object of scientific and political discussion, with varying degrees of intensity - promoted with vehement fervour during periods of social or economic crisis, and less intensely during periods of stability.

The increasing world population is already causing intensive pressure on the most productive areas of the earth's surface.

Ladies a n d g e n t 1 e m e n , I have the pleasure to welcome you here in Prague in the name of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and to open the Fifth Inter- national Colloquium on Soil Zoology.

Rice production is affected by changing climate conditions and has the dual role of contributing to global warming through emissions of the greenhouse gas methane.

Mathematical models are being increasingly used to estimate the concentrations of a wide range of substances in the environment for a variety of reasons, including government control and legislation, and risk and hazard estimation.

At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship.

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Traditional reliance on chemical analysis to understand the direction and extent of treatment in a bioremediation process has been found to be inadequate.

Significant vulnerability of water systems to drought is a common issue of water resources management in Mediterranean regions.

Global warming, environmental changes, water shortage, and sustainable development are the most up-to-date issues, which have challenged mankind.

For the last two decades the loss of, in particular, tropical rainforest has alarmed the public in the developed parts of the world.

Unlike connotations such as greenhouse effect.

This work is a comprehensive collection of articles that cover aspects of cell wall research in the genomic era.

In the 1990s the world community has arrived at a particularly in developing countries and in econo- historical turning point.

Nowhere is the conflict between economic progress and environmental quality more apparent than in the mineral extraction industries.

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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Rothamsted Millennium Conference "e;Interactions in the Root Environment - an Integrated Approach"e;.

"e;Field screening"e; indicates field analytical tools, and (quick) methods and strategies for on-site or in-situ environmental analysis and assessment of contamination.

Coastal populations of shellfish have been exploited by humans for millennia as an easily accessible source of fresh protein.

Groundwater issues have generated worldwide concern in recent decades.

This is the 5th edition of a well-established book Principles of Plant Nutrition which was first published in 1978.

Coastal Conservation and Management provides the reader with a synthesis of the range and variation of the main coastal formations and includes practical guidance on their management.

The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany.

This volume contains selected contributions from geoENV III - the Third European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Sciences, held in Avignon, France in November 2000.

Parasitic weeds of the families Cuscutaceae, Orobanchaceae and Scrophulariaceae are considered to be among the major problems facing agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics.

Soil science in the Netherlands puts strong emphasis on the relationship between parent material and soil formation, and between physiographic conditions and land use.

As an introduction to the present book I would like to explain how it was, that I, a commercial nurseryman, became so keenly interested in Conifers and their nomen- clature.

During the past few years there has been a marked increase in the use of advanced chemical methods in studies of soil and clay mineral systems, but only a relatively small number of soil and clay scientists have become intimately associ- ated and acquainted with these new techniques.

The agricultural value of sewage sludges is well known and a lot of published data has demonstrated the positive effects of sludge appli- cations on plant growth and yield.

The present investigation was carried out in the period 1977-1981 at the Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition of the Agricultural University Wageningen, Netherlands.

Lord Rutherford has said that all science is either physics or stamp collecting.

The Symposium was organized by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and the Central Research Institute for Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

It is an established fact that we must continually increase and improve agricultural production if we are to meet even the minimum requirements of a growing popu- lation for food, shelter, and fuel.

A large proportion of the world's population is directly involved in agriculture, many of them as small businessmen.

As for the preceding four International Symposia on Nitrogen Fixation, held in Pullman, Washington USA (1974); Salamanca, Spain (1976); Madison, Wisconsin, USA (1978); and Canberra, Australia (1980), the 5th Symposium held from August 28 - September 3, 1983 in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, received the gene- rous support of the Charles F.