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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paramjit s minhas”
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  • Irrigation Sustainability with Saline and Alkali Waters

    Extent, Impacts and Management Guidelines

    by Paramjit S. Minhas, Manzoor Qadir ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a practical guidance and a set of principles for improving management of saline and alkali waters and thus would be useful for different stakeholders, including agricultural students, researchers, environmentalists, and policy makers.The worldwide aggregated area with occurrence of saline and brackish groundwater is about 24 million square kilometers causing annual food losses ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Agroforestry for the Management of Waterlogged Saline Soils and Poor-Quality Waters

    Edited by Jagdish Chander Dagar, Paramjit Minhas ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Land degradation caused by salinity and waterlogging is a global problem afflicting about one billion hectares and endangering the food security of at least 75 countries. Since the social, economic and environmental costs of on and/off-farm reclamation techniques are high, agroforestry is now emerging as a potential tool, not only for arresting salinity and waterlogging, but also for other ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Abiotic Stress Management for Resilient Agriculture

    Edited by Ratna Kumar Pasala, Paramjit Singh Minhas, Jagadish Rane ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of on abiotic stresses in terms of the challenges; scope and opportunities; copping strategies for adaptation and mitigation using novel tools for building resilience in agricultural crops and livestock; as well as for policy implementation. Divided into four major parts: advances and prospects for understanding stress environments; adaptation and ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

    Edited by C.A. Rovers, Han Haarman, A. Verhagen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Read more

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  • Cropping Pattern Modification to Overcome Abiotic Stresses

    Water, Salinity and Climate

    by Mostafa Morsy, Samiha A. H. Ouda, Abd El-Hafeez Zohry ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides state-of-the art analysis, never done before in Egypt, on agro-climatic zones level. This study deals with how the national cropping pattern can be modified to overcome abiotic stresses, such as water scarcity, induced salinity and climate change to reduce their negative effects on food production. To this end, different cropping patterns are suggested.This study can be a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rainwater-Smart Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

    Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Josep de Trincheria Gomez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book introduces state-of-the-art approaches, methods and research, focusing on smart management of rainwater. In addition, it provides an overview of projects from across the world, illustrating how rainwater-smart management has been implemented in drylands. Focusing on the scientific perspective it demonstrates how rural dryland agriculture can be improved. It also documents the wealth of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Farming on the Fringe

    Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney

    by Sarah James ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney’s globalizing demographic and cultural ... Read more

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  • Strategies for Building Resilience against Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Osamu Saito, Edwin A. Gyasi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book summarizes studies on climate and ecosystem change adaptation and resilience in Africa (CECAR-Africa), a collaboration with the goal of creating an integrated resilience enhancement strategy as a potential model for semi-arid regions across Sub-Saharan Africa by combining climate change and ecosystem change research. The case studies were conducted at multiple scales – local, national, ... Read more

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  • Tropospheric Ozone and its Impacts on Crop Plants

    A Threat to Future Global Food Security

    by Supriya Tiwari, Madhoolika Agrawal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The research and its outcomes presented here focuses on tropospheric or ground level ozone, in particular due to its surfacing as a major threat to crop productivity around the world. This book presents the ozone concentration data for a variety of geographical regions, examines the factors responsible for its increasing concentrations and its potential effects on physiological and biochemical ... Read more

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  • Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in Egypt

    Unconventional Solutions

    by Samiha A.H. Ouda, Abd El-Hafeez Zohry ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book contains suggestion on suitable crop rotations for salt-affected soils to maximize the productivity of lands and water under current climate and under climate change in 2030. This book discusses droughts and water scarcity, which are important issues related to natural phenomena and affected by climate variability and change. It calls for reassessing the prevailing crop structure in Egypt ... Read more

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  • Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops

    Vol. 1 Concepts and Strategies

    Edited by Chittaranjan Kole ...
    Climate change is expected to have a drastic impact on agronomic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and the incidence of disease pests, to name a few. To face this looming threat, significant progress in developing new breeding strategies has been made over the last few decades.The first volume of Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops presents the basic ... Read more

    $188.09 USD