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According to the United Nations, 77 million people are expected to face water shortage by 2025, if people continue to use water at the current rate...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Agriculture transforms the environment. The simplification of agroecosystems structure increases the hazards of leaching, wind and water erosion, a...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

Water is the most vital substance in every aspect of life, and its contamination because of the activity of mankind poses a big global challenge. A...

This title was first published in 2000. Using the latest surveys and original data, this volume contrasts energy and environmental policies in West...

While there are a few plant cell biology books that are currently available, these are expensive, methods-oriented monographs. The present volume i...

This title was first published in 2000: Most African countries experienced dramatic agricultural market reforms over the 1990s. This has resulted i...

This title was first published in 2001. An interdisciplinary team of leading European scholars bring together case studies from Western and Eastern...

Thermites, which are generally considered to be reactive mixtures of powdered metals and metal oxides, are an important subset of energetic materia...

The term soil health refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants, animals, and humans while also impro...

Scentwork for Horses is the first practical guide on how to implement scentwork into the lives of domesticated horses, enhancing behaviour, welfare...

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values. Colour ...

Energy from wave and tidal power is a key component of current policies for renewable sources of energy. This book provides the first comprehensive...

This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental pr...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Response of Field Crops to Abiotic Stress: Current Status and Future Prospects is a collection of useful scientific resources for students, researc...

Emerging technologies in wastewater treatment plant is an ecological, profitable and natural technology designed to eliminate heavy metals, radionu...

Fluorescence of Living Plant Cells for Phytomedicine Preparations reveals how valuable medicinal compounds can be identified through the applicatio...

The discussion on arsenic in the environment is complex and must grasp the importance of very many, mostly unrelated works on individual aspects. T...

This title was first published in 2003. The 'Economics of Forestry' is a specialized subset of resource economics addressing a specific natural res...

First published in 1999, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and their conditions of c...

This new edition of Civil Engineering: Supervision and Management updates and revises the best practical guide for on-site engineers. Written from ...

The evolution of animal diversity is strongly affected by the origin of novel cell and tissue types and their interactions with each other. Underst...

This title was first published in 2003. This prominent and commanding volume collates the best research available on China's agricultural trade. Cr...

The author offers an overview of pollen biology and biotechnology for students and researchers in areas such as reproductive biology, biotechnology...

First published in 1988: This easy-to-read handbook provides a comprehensive review of the current knowledge on lichens. The structure of lichens a...

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and polic...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and i...

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options. This book addresses the c...

Asian medicinal plants show great promise in pharmaceutical and cosmetological development. Researchers engaged in the discovery of new leads in th...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...

This volume provides a contemporary overview of new strategies for traditional medicine development, of the importance of cataloging ethnomedical i...

This practical handbook of properties for soils and rock contains in a concise tabular format the key issues relevant to geotechnical investigation...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...