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True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale
This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781000389968, 9780367506858
- Collation
- 288
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
- Call Number
- 338.1 TRU t
Honey Bee Colony Health : Challenges and Sustainable Solutions
This book summarizes the current progress of bee researchers investigating the status of honey bees and possible reasons for their decline, providing a basis for establishing management methods that maintain colony health. Integrating discussion of Colony Collapse Disorder, the chapters provide information on the new microsporidian Nosema ceranae pathogens, the current status of the parasitic b…
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- 9780429185045
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- -
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- Call Number
- 630
Swamp Rice Farming
This first detailed ethnographic account of the Pahang Malay people of peninsular Malaysia focuses on the society's traditional agricultural system, particularly on its specialization in the production of rice on largely unmodified natural swampland. Dr. Lambert discusses the historical development of Pahang Malay rice farming, its dependence on indigenous knowledge of local ecology, and its ad…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429308086
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- -
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- 630
Infiltration Measurements for Soil Hydraulic Characterization
This book summarises the main results of many contributions from researchers worldwide who have used the water infiltration process to characterize soil in the field. Determining soil hydrodynamic properties is essential to interpret and simulate the hydrological processes of economic and environmental interest. This book can be used as a guide to soil hydraulic characterization and in additi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-0007-2
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- XI, 386
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- -
- Call Number
- 630 ANQ i
Intertwined Histories
How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the atmosphere that made life possible for animals. They are some of the largest and oldest life forms on Earth. In spite of their primacy, Western cultures have traditional…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781773850917
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Sustainable Rice Straw Management
This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book is …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 2020
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- -
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Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VIII
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 5.14 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture, CCTA 2014, held in Beijing, China, in September 2014. The 81 revised papers included in this volume were carefully selected from 216 submissions. They cover a wide range of interesting theories and applications of information tech…
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- 9783319196206
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- xvi, 756 pages
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- -
- Call Number
- 630
A Handbook of Plant-Form For Students of Design, Art Schools, Teachers and A…
Written and richly illustrated by the Derby-born artist Ernest Ellis Clark (1869–1932), this guide was originally published in 1904 to demonstrate the decorative possibilities of certain plants, mainly English wild flowers, to art students sitting examinations in plant drawing and design. Clark emphasises the importance of retaining a certain amount of botanical accuracy and provides examples…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781107262225
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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- -
Heavy Metal Contamination of Soils Monitoring and Remediation
Following a description of the various sources and factors influencing the contents of heavy metal pollution in post-catastrophic and agricultural soils, subsequent chapters examine soil enzymes and eggs as bio-monitors, lead adsorption, the effects of arsenic on microbial diversity, and the effects of Mediterranean grasslands on abandoned mines. A third section focuses on the adaptation strate…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-14525-9
- Collation
- XIX, 497
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 630 HEA
Conservation Agriculture : an Approach to Combat Climate Change in Indian Him…
This book showcases a compilation of case studies presented by scientists, teachers and academics and covers contemporary technologies for combating climate change, including sustainable agricultural management practices and conservation agriculture. It highlights the situations that future generations in the Indian Himalayas will face, and addresses the major challenges for tomorrow's generati…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811025587
- Collation
- XV, 559 pages 83 illustrations, 68 illustrations in color.
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- -
- Call Number
- 630
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