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  • Oasis Agriculture in Pakistan

    Folk Tales of Agro-pastoral Heritage, Transformation and Biodiversity

    Edited by Andreas Buerkert, Martin Wiehle, Eva Schlecht, Ellen Hoffmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book emerged from decades of agro-ecological research in the Karakoram Mountains and the Cholistan Desert of Pakistan conducted in collaboration with local scientists, PhD scholars, and villagers in partly very remote oases that exhibit a historically unusually high diversity of agro-pastoral land use systems. Due to their resilience under isolated harsh environmental conditions, as outlined ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • The Rural-Urban Interface

    An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Urbanisation Processes Around the Indian Megacity Bengaluru

    Edited by Ellen Hoffmann, Andreas Buerkert, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh, Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj, Prem José Vazhacharickal ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes along with changes in ecosystem functions, new economic opportunities, changes in social organization and individual attitudes and behavior. All of these ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2

    Cultivation techniques

    by Mukesh Meena, Dr Q. Xue, J. Rudd, J. Bell, T. Marek, S. Liu, Tadesse Dessalegn, Tesfaye Solomon, Tesfaye Gebre Kristos, Abiy Solomon, Prof. Arun Kumar Joshi, Shure Seboka, Yazie Chane, Dr Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Kamala A. Roberts, Fetien Abay, Rizana Mahroof, J. R. Guarin, Dr Brian L. Beres, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Haley Catton, Dr Thomas F. Döring, J. M. Clarke, K. Nilsen, D. Khitiri, X. Lin, Prof. C. J. Pozniak, K. Ammar, Dr Tinashe Chiurugwi, Simon Kerr, Simanchal Sahu, Ian Midgley, L. A. Boyd, Johnson Kamwaga, Peter Njau, Terry van Gevelt, Claudia Canales, Max Marcheselli, Dr Rajiv Kumar  Sharma, Dr W. Tadesse, A Amri, Prof. Peter J. Gregory, M Sanchez-Garcia, M El-Bouhssini, M Karrou, S Patil, F Bassi, Dr M. Baum, Prof. T. Oweis, Christina K. Clarke, Dr Vijesh Krishna, Alwin Keil, Sreejith Aravindakshan, Dr Reem Aboukhaddour, Dr Senthold Asseng ...
    Series Book 6 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews advances in cultivation practice such as seed establishment and more efficient irrigation techniques;Summarises developments in ‘climate smart’ agriculture such as conservation tillage and organic wheat cultivation;Discusses ways of supporting smallholders improve wheat cultivation in North Africa and other regions in the developing world ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Towards Sustainable Natural Resources

    Monitoring and Managing Ecosystem Biodiversity

    Edited by Meenu Rani, Bhagwan Singh Chaudhary, Saleha Jamal, Pavan Kumar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Natural resources not only contribute to overall growth of the economy but also help reduce poverty by providing employment and food security to populations on the continent, and is thus the most inclusive growth sector of the economy of Asian countries. Global weather and climate studies are also increasingly being considered a vital source of information to understand the earth’s environment, in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Conservation of Biodiversity in the North Eastern States of India

    Proceedings of NERC 2022

    Edited by Ramagopal V. S. Uppaluri, Latha Rangan ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume presents part of the proceedings of NERC 2022, with an emphasis on conservation of bio-diversity in North-east India. This is a highly challenging and involved topic due to regionally diverse physiographic, geographical and eco-climatic conditions. Henceforth, systemic and holistic frameworks are required to disseminate upon the potential of science and technology for the conservation ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies

    by Pavan Kumar, A. K. Pandey, Susheel Kumar Singh, S. S. Singh, V. K. Singh ...
    Sustainable Agriculture Systems and TechnologiesA robust treatment of traditional and new techniques in sustainable agricultureIn Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an up-to-date and comprehensive exploration of sustainable agriculture and its relationship to the drivers of climate change. Along with robust examinations of food security ... Read more

    $183.00 USD

  • Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments

    Edited by Katarzyna Negacz, Pier Vellinga, Edward Barrett-Lennard, Redouane Choukr-Allah, Theo Elzenga ...
    Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world’s attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available worldwide, freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce, and the global sea-level rise threatens food production in fertile coastal lowlands. Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments aims to ... Read more

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  • Grand Transitions

    How the Modern World Was Made

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Should We Eat Meat?

    Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmental, political, or health-related aspects of production and consumption.This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout their evolution and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat’s role in human evolution and its ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Pomegranate, The

    Botany, Production and Uses

    by Nahla Abdel-Fattah Awd, Shinsuke Agehara, Hamid Ahmadpourmir, Mehdi Alizadeh, Mahdi Asgari, Sedigheh Asgary, James Ayars, Zohreh Azadeh, Farhad Azarmi-Atajan, Dhinesh Babu, Julián Bartual, Maria Cano-Lamadrid, Ángle A. Carbonell-Barrachina, Salvador Castillo, John M Chater, Ferdinando Cossio, Morteza Djamali, Sadegh Dodman, Mohammad Hosein Farzaei, Giuseppe Ferrara, Nilesh N Gaikwad, María E. García-Pastor, G A Geetha, Angelica Giancaspro, Seyed Hossein Goldansaz, Fabián Guillén, Mallikarjun M. Harsur, Mohammad Hassani, Fatemeh Hoseinzadeh-chahkandak, Lefeng Hou, Soroush Hozeifi, Diego S Intrigliolo, Eghbal Jasemi, Mahtab Keshvari, Zhenyu Jia, Hamid R. Karimi, Mehdi Khayyat, Jiyu Li, Chunyan Liu, Zahra Lorigooini, Mahshid Sedaghat, Ashish Maity, Girigowda Manjunath, Domingo Martínez-Romero, Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza, Andrea Mazzeo, Jorge Medina, Donald J Merhaut, Mohammad H Mirjalili, Jeff Moersfelder, Saeideh Momtaz, Ziyafet Mustafayeva, Diganta Narzary, Marino Palasciano, Lluís Palou, Shilpa Parashuram, Nita B. Patil, Prakash G Patil, María B Pérez-Gag, Ali Mohammad Pourbagher-Shahri, John Preece, Herminia Puerto, Gaihua Qin, Roja Rahimi, Mehdi Rezaei, Muhammaad A Saeedi, Sara Saeidi Ghavi, Steven A. Sargent, Yahya Selahvarzi, María Serrano, Jyotsana Sharma, Rouhollah Shirazi, Zohreh Shirazi, K.S Shivashankara, Zeinab Shokoohi, Tikam S. Rana, Nripendra V Singh, Asiye Soleymani, Federica Spagnoli, Daniel Valero, Gary Vallad, Feryal Varasteh, Dong Wang, Katia V Xavier, Nima Yazdanbakhsh, Cenap Yilmaz, Pedro J. Zapata, Abdolkarim Zarei ...
    Series series Botany, Production and Uses
    The pomegranate, Punica granatum L., is one of the oldest known edible fruits and is associated with the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive book covering the botany, production, processing, health and industrial uses of the pomegranate. The cultivation of this fruit for fresh consumption, juice production and medicinal purposes has expanded more than tenfold ... Read more

    $178.99 USD

  • Advances in Phytochemistry, Textile and Renewable Energy Research for Industrial Growth

    Proceedings of the International Conference of Phytochemistry, Textile and Renewable Energy for Sustainable development (ICPTRE 2020), August 12-14, Eldoret, Kenya

    Edited by Charles Nzila, Nyamwala Oluoch, Ambrose Kiprop, Rose Ramkat, Isaac Kosgey ...
    The International Conference on Phytochemistry, Textile, & Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development (ICPTRE 2020) was hosted by the World bank funded Africa Centre of Excellence in Phytochemicals, Textile and Renewable Energy (ACEII-PTRE) based at Moi University in conjunction with Donghua University, China and the Sino–Africa International Symposium on Textiles and Apparel ... Read more

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  • Date Palm

    by Professor Jameel M Al-Khayri, Professor Shri Mohan Jain, Professor Dennis V Johnson, Dr Robert R Krueger, Dr Larbi Abahmane, Dr Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar, Dr Fatima-Zahra Akensous0, Dr M. Tahir Akram1, Dr Salah Mohammed Aleid2, Dr Melkamu Alemayehu3, Dr Abda Ali4, Dr Latifa Al-Kharusi5, Dr Mohammed Al-Mahish6, Dr Abdulrasoul Mosa Al-Omran7, Dr Lyutha Al-Subhi8, Dr Rashid Al-Yahyai9, Asunción Amorós0, Dr Mohamed Anli1, Dr Mohamed Marouf Aribi2, Dr Raja Ben-Laoaune3, Dr Houda Besser4, Dr Neeru Bhatt5, Dr Abderrahim Boutasknit6, Dr Roshini Brizmohun7, Dr Latifa Dhaouadi8, Dr Gisela Díaz9, Dr Raga Elzaki0, Dr Abdessamad Fakhech1, Dr Mohamed Abusaa Fennir2, Dr Ibrahim E. Greiby3, Dr Ayah R. Hilles4, Rhonda Janke5, Dr Muhammad Jafar Jaskani6, Dr Imran Ul Haq Khan7, Dr M Mumtaz Khan8, Dr Rashad Rasool Khan9, Dr Mithlesh Kumar0, Dr Abdelilah Meddich1, Dr C. M. Muralidharan2, Dr Summar Abbas Naqvi3, Dr Taseer Abbas Naqvi4, Dr Concepción Obón5, Dr Redouane Ouhaddou6, Dr Ozcan Ozturk7, Dr Ouissame Raho8, Dr Diego Rivera9, Dr Ricardo Salomón-Torres0, Dr Kapil Mohan Sharma1, Mostafa I. Waly2, Dr Muhammad Waseem3, Dr Glenn C. Wright4 ...
    Series series Crop Production Science in Horticulture
    Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a tree belonging to the palm family (Arecaceae) and is cultivated for its sweet edible fruits. Over the past century, it has become a major commercial fruit crop and a key component of agricultural production in the world's subtropical arid and semiarid regions. A crop suited both to the low-input small-farmer and the modern high-input commercial plantation, ... Read more

    $75.59 USD