Filter by
The State as an Actor in Religion Policy Policy Cycle and Governance Perspec…
Maria Grazia Martino and her contributing authors highlight the different solutions found by European countries with different ecclesiastical law systems, different distributions of Christian denominations and different percentages of Muslim immigrants: Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Italy and Greece. Churches and religious communities are actors from civil society. The state sets the fr…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-06945-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Sorghum Genome
This book provides insights into the current state of sorghum genomics. It particularly focuses on the tools and strategies employed in genome sequencing and analysis, public and private genomic resources and how all this information is leading to direct outcomes for plant breeders. The advent of affordable whole genome sequencing in combination with existing cereal functional genomics data has…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-47789-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Soils of Taiwan
This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Taiwan. It includes sections on soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil properties, soil classification, soil fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industry, future soil issues. The book summarizes what is known about the soils in Ta…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9726-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Soils of Iceland
In this new volume in the World Soil series, the various types of Icelandic soils, their different characteristics, their formation, degradation and erosion are reviewed. At the same time, the book also deals with the agriculture and land use in general to give a complete view of Icelandic soils. The first part details the natural parameters such as the climate and the geography of Iceland. It …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9621-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals
This book explores the importance of good nutrition in ensuring an adequate standard of welfare for farm animals. It is often not realized that farm animals can suffer when they are fed unsuitable diets, which may be because these diets are more economic or the farmer does not know how to rectify poor nutrition. This book reveals how to recognize and deal with feeding problems in farm animals, …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-27354-9
- Collation
- XXIX, 247
- Series Title
- Animal Welfare
- Call Number
- -
Nutrient Use Efficiency: from Basics to Advances
This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects. Conveying an in-depth understanding of the topic will spark the development of new cultivars and strains to induce NUE, coupled with best management pract…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-81-322-2168-5
- Collation
- XXIII, 417
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Carbon Trading in China : Environmental Discourse and Politics
This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-52900-8
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306
Apocarotenoids of Crocus sativus L: From biosynthesis to pharmacology
This book is a product of years of research on saffron biology. It intends to give a broad but concise overview of the various aspects of apocarotenoid biosynthesis in Crocus sativus, its regulation and pharmacology . Crocus sativus L. of family Iridaceae is an important medicinal plant. The dried stigma of C. sativus flower is considered as the world's costliest spice. Saffron is the source…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-1899-2
- Collation
- IX, 61
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Plant Science
- Call Number
- 540.1 BAB a
Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods : Smallholders Today
his book brings together eleven works by scholars within and beyond geography, to argue the case for a continued engagement with smallholder agricultural studies. The research detailed is largely empirical and draws on a wide spectrum of mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The case studies cover a range of geographic locations, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswan…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 630 CHA
The Impact of Religiosity on Fertility
The work investigates the impact of religiosity of women and men on their completed fertility in an international comparison considering a long time period. Sandra Hubert aims at uncovering all mechanisms through which religiosity and religious institutions can affect fertility. Hence, both the micro- and the macro-level of each country are explicitly integrated, and theoretically as well as…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-07008-3
- Collation
- XIV, 283, 13 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- The Impact of Religiosity on Fertility
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography