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  • Viability of Seeds Viability of Seeds
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    Viability of Seeds

    From prehistoric times man has had a pecial s relationship with seed plants - as a source of food, materials for tools, buildings, clothing and pharmaceuticals, and for ornamenting his surroundings for his own delight (probably...
    $92.00

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  • Sustainable Bioenergy Production - An Integrated Approach Sustainable Bioenergy Production - An Integrated Approach
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    Sustainable Bioenergy Production - An Integrated Approach

    This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between...
    $270.00

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  • The Entolomataceae of Tasmania The Entolomataceae of Tasmania
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    The Entolomataceae of Tasmania

    This book is the result of 14 years of collecting Entolomataceae in the native forests of Tasmania, Australia. Although initially involving only the Tasmanian residents Genevieve Gates and David Ratkowsky, who made twice- or thrice-weekly forays into the...
    $335.00

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  • Soil Emission of Nitrous Oxide and its Mitigation Soil Emission of Nitrous Oxide and its Mitigation
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    Soil Emission of Nitrous Oxide and its Mitigation

    Nitrous oxide gas is a long-lived relatively active greenhouse gas (GHG) with an atmospheric lifetime of approximately 120 years, and heat trapping effects about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide per molecule basis. It contributes about 6% of...
    $184.00

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  • Virtue Ethics and the Environment Virtue Ethics and the Environment
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    Virtue Ethics and the Environment

    Whatever its origins, EVE (Environmental Virtue Ethics) now appears to be a vital part of the environmental philosophy landscape. Whether you look to it for an alternative to other theoretical approaches to environmental ethics, or as a complement to...
    $227.00

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  • Advanced Technologies for Managing Insect Pests Advanced Technologies for Managing Insect Pests
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    Advanced Technologies for Managing Insect Pests

    Among the highlights of this book is the use of novel insecticides acting on a specific site in an insect group and are compatible with natural enemies and the environment. One of such approaches is based on disrupting the activity of biochemical sites...
    $270.00

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  • Biocommunication of Fungi Biocommunication of Fungi
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    Biocommunication of Fungi

    Fungi are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realise the optimum variant...
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  • An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
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    An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture

    Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems...
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  • Pastoral practices in High Asia Pastoral practices in High Asia
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    Pastoral practices in High Asia

    In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous...
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  • Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics
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    Plant Virus and Viroid Diseases in the Tropics

    Plant virus and sub-viral pathogens pose severe constraints to the production of wide range of economically important crops worldwide. The crops raised both through true seed and vegetative propagated materials are affected with number of virus and...
    $270.00

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  • Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology
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    Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology

    Agricultural biotechnology takes many forms and applications, with the number and diversity of products ever increasing. With this rapid development, regulatory authorities have sought to keep pace through regulatory adjustments and advances to ensure...
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  • Arsenic & Rice Arsenic & Rice
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    Arsenic & Rice

    Rice is the staple food for half of the world's population. Consumption of rice is the major exposure route globally to the class one, non-threshold carcinogen inorganic arsenic. This book explains the sources of arsenic to paddy soils and the...
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  • Forests in Development Forests in Development
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    Forests in Development

    Forests in Development: A Vital Balance, shows some of the main advances in forestry over the six years spanning between the XII World Forestry Congress in Canada and the XIII WFC held in Buenos Aires. The book covers most of the themes of the XIII WFC,...
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  • Forest Landscape Restoration Forest Landscape Restoration
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    Forest Landscape Restoration

    Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners' efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing...
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  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Management Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
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    Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

    This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and...
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  • Organic Fertilisation, Soil Quality and Human Health Organic Fertilisation, Soil Quality and Human Health
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    Organic Fertilisation, Soil Quality and Human Health

    Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water...
    $335.00

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  • The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬-2050 The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬-2050
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    The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬-2050

    This book presents an historical analysis of the global paper industry evolution from a comparative perspective. At the centre are 16 producing countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Germany, Canada, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain,...
    $444.00

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  • Precision in Crop Farming Precision in Crop Farming
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    Precision in Crop Farming

    High yields and environmental control in crop farming call for precise adaptations to local growing conditions. Treating large fields in a uniform way by high capacity machinery cannot be regarded as a sustainable method for many situations. Because...
    $411.00

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  • Arthropod Management in Vineyards Arthropod Management in Vineyards
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    Arthropod Management in Vineyards

    Provides a state-of-the-science overview of arthropods affecting grape production around the world. Vineyard pest management is a dynamic and evolving field, and the contributed chapters provide insights into arthropods that limit this important crop and...
    $596.00

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  • Forest and Nature Governance Forest and Nature Governance
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    Forest and Nature Governance

    Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance. In its broadest interpretation, governance is about the many ways in which...
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  • Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia
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    Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia

    This volume of 18 chapters is the work of more than 30 authors, many of whom are natives of the Central Asian region or are researchers who have dedicated a large part of their working lives to studying the development dynamics in this vast and...
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  • A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration
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    A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration

    While restoration ecology has traditionally aimed to re-create some putative more 'natural' ecological state, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged over the last decade as an approach aimed more at restoring natural functions, while focusing on...
    $270.00

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  • Managing Biosecurity Across Borders Managing Biosecurity Across Borders
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    Managing Biosecurity Across Borders

    Managing biosecurity is everybody's business. The book's multi-site, multi-sectoral research contributes to an holistic, evidence-based strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts. The intent is to provide a starting point for all...
    $335.00

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  • Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture
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    Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture

    case studies of successful governance models could be referred to by others in order to improve the management of the sector. This is the initial step toward compiling stories of aquaculture successes, and the editorial team is to be congratulated for...
    $184.00

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  • Environmental and Agricultural Modelling Environmental and Agricultural Modelling
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    Environmental and Agricultural Modelling

    Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range...
    $324.00

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  • Date Palm Biotechnology Date Palm Biotechnology
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    Date Palm Biotechnology

    This important reference book is the first comprehensive resource worldwide that reflects research achievements in date palm biotechnology, documenting research events during the last four decades, current status, and future...
    $485.00

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  • Plant-Plant Allelopathic Interactions Plant-Plant Allelopathic Interactions
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    Plant-Plant Allelopathic Interactions

    In an effort to implement conservation measures farmers have used a variety of production methods, including the use of reduced or zero tillage and cover crops. One benefit of these production methods has been early season weed control. The literature...
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  • Water and Food Security in Central Asia Water and Food Security in Central Asia
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    Water and Food Security in Central Asia

    Central Asia is vulnerable to water scarcity because it is located in semiarid and arid vegetation zones and large parts of its economy depend on water for irrigation and energy. Climate-change scenarios predict temperature...
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  • Organic Xenobiotics and Plants Organic Xenobiotics and Plants
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    Organic Xenobiotics and Plants

    Natural and agro-ecosystems are frequently exposed to natural or synthetic substances, which, while they have no direct nutritional value or significance in metabolism, may negatively affect plant functioning. These, ...
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  • The TransForum Model The TransForum Model
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    The TransForum Model

    The TransForum Model: Transforming Agro-innovation Toward Sustainable Development presents new insights on how to use innovation for the complex challenge of sustainable development. Innovation has been at the heart of the...
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  • Sustainability in Food and Water Sustainability in Food and Water
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    Sustainability in Food and Water

    Foodandwatersecurityissuesareregardedassinequanonif asocietywants to p- mote health, peace and prosperity. People who are well fed are also people with the means to changetheir situation. However,this is still an immense challengefor Asia...
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  • The Future of the World's Forests The Future of the World's Forests
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    The Future of the World's Forests

    At the landmark 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), solemn resolutions were made both to protect the world's biodiversity and to co-operate on managing natural forests in a sustainable and ecologically...
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  • Eriophyoid Mites Eriophyoid Mites
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    Eriophyoid Mites

    Fourteen informative papers dealing with their DNA, species interactions, adventiveness, host specificity, potential as boi-contol agents of weeds, chemical control, behaviour, their role in fungal pathogen epidemiology,...
    $335.00

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