Primary Industries

This book explores how the development of innovative urban agricultural businesses is creating social innovation and changing the perception and be...

This is the story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs...

This book gathers the proceedings of the 32nd Scientific-Experts Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry, held on December 1-2, 2022, in Saraje...

Between 1950 and 1985, the United States provided an ongoing flow of resources to support Brazilian agriculture. These were granted regardless of t...

This book provides a comprehensive history of Brazilian agricultural economic development between 1890 and 1950. It details the US agricultural edu...

Sustainable food production is vital to ensure food and nutritional security to growing human population. Recently, there has been a shift in agric...

When fishing boats were numerous, Scotland was a wonderful place to see them. Even in later days, its still possible to see a hint of what used to ...

This book lays out the evolution of the often contested construction management discipline. How is the field defined? What has been discovered to d...

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the palm oil export market, including analysis of its current challenges and move towards sustain...

This book is related to disaster risk reduction in agriculture particularly under changing climate. Climate change refers to significant, long-term...

Biotechnology Applications in Forestry: Forest Microbiology, Volume Four in the Forest Microbiology series, is a comprehensive exploration of harne...

CRISPR for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture summarizes the current genome editing technology being used in food and energy crops. It prese...

Fully revised and updated The Science of Grapevines, Fourth Edition is an introduction to the physical structure of the grapevine, its organs, thei...

Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper essential for light, power, and communication have demanded ever-increasing q...

Engineered Nanomaterials for Agricultural Sustainability: Current Status, Methods and Future Strategies addresses the bottleneck between the develo...

India is the fastest growing and worlds third largest economy in terms of GDP in PPP terms. Sustainable development of India will ensure the welfar...

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...

Plant-Forward Cuisine is a beautifully illustrated book that promotes the environmental and health benefits of a plant-forward diet and will inspir...

This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to intern...

This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving Cordyceps sinensis, a rare species of fungus largely grown in Tibet, curre...

Plant-Forward Cuisine is a beautifully illustrated book that promotes the environmental and health benefits of a plant-forward diet and will inspir...

How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of ...

How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of ...

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. ...

This book develops organizing eating as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to...

Being sessiles like autotrophic plants and heterotrophics as animals, fungi are fascinating eukaryotes. In them, the need for external digestion ha...

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an...

This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional o...

This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Centr...

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territorie...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (2024 nt), single stranded, regulatory RNA molecules or gene regulators of critical transcriptional or post-transcript...

This book covers issues pertaining to uranium tailings with special reference to consolidation of radioactivity including systematic ecological str...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management...