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  • Global Climate Change and Environmental Policy Global Climate Change and Environmental Policy
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    Global Climate Change and Environmental Policy

    Global climate change threatens human existence through its potential impact on agriculture and the environment. Agriculture is climate-sensitive, and climate variability and climate change have net negative impact on it. Additionally, the agricultural...
    $281.00

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  • Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture
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    Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture

    This book highlights state-of-the-art research and practices for adaptation to climate change in food production systems (agriculture in particular) as observed in Japan and neighboring Asian countries. The main topics covered include the current...
    $283.00

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  • Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings
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    Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings

    This book introduces readers to both seed treatment and seedling pretreatments, taking into account various factors such as plant age, growing conditions and climate. Reflecting recent advances in seed priming and pretreatment techniques, it demonstrates...
    $348.00

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  • Radiocesium Dynamics in a Japanese Forest Ecosystem Radiocesium Dynamics in a Japanese Forest Ecosystem
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    Radiocesium Dynamics in a Japanese Forest Ecosystem

    This book investigates radiocesium movement in all major components of forest ecosystems, e.g. the plants, animals, insects, microorganisms, and soils, during the initial stage of contamination after the incident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant...
    $335.00

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  • Soil Health Restoration and Management Soil Health Restoration and Management
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    Soil Health Restoration and Management

    Meeting the food requirements of an ever-increasing population is a pressing challenge for every country around the globe. Soil degradation has a negative impact on food security by reducing the cultivated land areas, while at the same time the world...
    $270.00

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  • Bacterial Adaptation to Co-resistance Bacterial Adaptation to Co-resistance
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    Bacterial Adaptation to Co-resistance

    The proposed book aims to understand the mechanism of survival of microorganisms in response to chemical stress in various ecological niches that suffer direct human intervention, more so the agricultural, domestic and hospital settings. Microbicides (e...
    $270.00

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  • Red Sanders Red Sanders
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    Red Sanders

    Pterocarpus santalinus L.f., popularly known as Red Sanders, an endemic tree, belonging to the family Fabaceae is  confined to the southern parts of Eastern Ghats. IUCN has listed this tree as endangered. The plant has superlative characteristics in...
    $270.00

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  • Anthropogenic Tropical Forests Anthropogenic Tropical Forests
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    Anthropogenic Tropical Forests

    The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has...
    $281.00

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  • Intellectual Property Issues in Microbiology Intellectual Property Issues in Microbiology
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    Intellectual Property Issues in Microbiology

    In the current era current era of significant innovations, science and technology are powerful tools improving human welfare through prosperity and sustainable development. The development of microbiology based industries in any given country is shaped...
    $270.00

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  • Wheat Production in Changing Environments Wheat Production in Changing Environments
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    Wheat Production in Changing Environments

    This book presents recent advances in global wheat crop research, including the effects of abiotic stresses like high and low temperatures, drought, hypoxia, salinity, heavy metals, nutrient deficiency, and...
    $335.00

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  • Mycorrhizosphere and Pedogenesis Mycorrhizosphere and Pedogenesis
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    Mycorrhizosphere and Pedogenesis

    The present book highlights importance of mycorrhiza in soil genesis wherein it reflects mycorrhizal occurrence and diversity, various tools to characterize them and its impact on soil formation/health together with crop productivity. The edited...
    $270.00

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  • Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)
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    Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)

    Sustainable increase in agricultural production while keeping the environmental quality, agro-ecosystem function and biodiversity is a real challenge in current agricultural practices. Application of PGPR can help in meeting the expected demand for...
    $270.00

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  • Advances in Food Processing Technology Advances in Food Processing Technology
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    Advances in Food Processing Technology

    This book introduces readers to essential advances in the application of physical processing technology in food processing that have been made in recent years. It analyzes and describes the application of Power Ultrasound, Pulsed Electric Field,...
    $238.00

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  • Anticancer plants Anticancer plants
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    Anticancer plants

    Cancer is one of the leading death cause of human population increasingly seen in recent times. Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since immemorial times. Though, several synthetic medicines are useful in treating cancer, they are inefficient...
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  • Insights into Chinese Agriculture Insights into Chinese Agriculture
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    Insights into Chinese Agriculture

    This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality.  It also helps the reader to get a clear understanding of economic phenomena, insight into the "hog cycle" and "food safety," as well...
    $268.00

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  • Herbicide Residue Research in India Herbicide Residue Research in India
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    Herbicide Residue Research in India

    Herbicides constitute about 60% of the total pesticides consumed globally. In India, the use of herbicides started initially in tea gardens and picked up in the 1970s, when the high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat were introduced. Presently, 67...
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  • Role of Rhizospheric Microbes in Soil Role of Rhizospheric Microbes in Soil
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    Role of Rhizospheric Microbes in Soil

    In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable. They not only co-exist but also support each other's survival and also provide for sustenance in stressful environment. Agro-ecosystems of many regions around the globe are affected by...
    $335.00

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  • Snow Mold Snow Mold
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    Snow Mold

    This book provides biological and agricultural insights into snow mold, a fungal disease affecting land plants observed after the melting of snow. Snow mold fungi can cause significant damage to plant growth both in agriculture and in the natural...
    $184.00

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  • Plant Growth Promoting Actinobacteria Plant Growth Promoting Actinobacteria
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    Plant Growth Promoting Actinobacteria

    Global yields of legumes have been relatively stagnant for the last five decades, despite the adoption of conventional and molecular breeding approaches. The use of plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria for improving agricultural production, soil and...
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  • HowExpert Guide to Clean Water HowExpert Guide to Clean Water
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    HowExpert Guide to Clean Water

    If you want to understand how to provide clean water, improve sanitation, and support sustainable development, then HowExpert Guide to Clean Water is your ultimate resource. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about the global...
    $47.00

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  • Large Camel Farming Large Camel Farming
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    Large Camel Farming

    This practical guide is intended for all actors in the sector who work with large camelids, whether in breeding, technical advice or veterinary care. It successively describes the general aspects of the species, the physiological bases of reproduction,...
    $216.00

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  • Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming
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    Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming

    This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations. It also analyzes both the negative impacts they can have and the ecosystem services they can provide. The...
    $238.00

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  • Agroecological Crop Protection Agroecological Crop Protection
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    Agroecological Crop Protection

    This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection. It presents the concepts of this innovative approach, case studies and lessons and generic keys for agroecological...
    $281.00

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  • Bioenergy from Wood Bioenergy from Wood
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    Bioenergy from Wood

    This book is written for scientists and practitioners interested in deepening their knowledge of the sustainable production of bioenergy from wood in tropical and sub-tropical countries. Utilising the value chain concept, this book outlines the necessary...
    $270.00

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  • Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation
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    Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation

    In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book covers the extent, causes, processes and impacts of global soil degradation, and processes for improvement of degraded...
    $249.00

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  • Agriculture and Public Goods Agriculture and Public Goods
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    Agriculture and Public Goods

    The debate on the future orientation of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is increasingly shaped by the role of agriculture in providing public goods, and there is a broad consensus that this approach will be particularly relevant in legitimating...
    $335.00

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  • Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization
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    Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization

    This important 2-volume reference book is the first comprehensive resource reflecting the current global status and prospects of date palm cultivation by country. This volume covers Africa and the Americas. Countries included are: Egypt, Algeria, Sudan,...
    $270.00

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  • Processionary Moths and Climate Change Processionary Moths and Climate Change
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    Processionary Moths and Climate Change

    Because of its peculiar biology, its negative impacts on forestry, and its urticating larvae affecting human and animal health, pine processionary moth has largely been studied in many European countries during the last century...
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  • Family Farming and the Worlds to Come Family Farming and the Worlds to Come
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    Family Farming and the Worlds to Come

    What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in...
    $324.00

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  • Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the Middle-East Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the Middle-East
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    Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the Middle-East

    The current volume, "Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the Middle-East" brings together chapters on selected, unique medicinal plants of this region, known to man since biblical times. Written by leading researchers and...
    $324.00

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  • Gender in Agriculture Gender in Agriculture
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    Gender in Agriculture

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers-women-lack equal access to the resources and...
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  • Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability
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    Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability

    Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach to development and...
    $122.00

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  • Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning
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    Forestry Applications of Airborne Laser Scanning

    Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as one of the most promising remote sensing technologies to provide data for research and operational applications in a wide range of disciplines related to management of forest...
    $270.00

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  • The Sirex Woodwasp and its Fungal Symbiont The Sirex Woodwasp and its Fungal Symbiont
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    The Sirex Woodwasp and its Fungal Symbiont

    The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most important invasive alien insect pest of Pinus plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. It now also threatens pines in North America. This book brings together the worldwide knowledge of researchers from...
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