Primary Industries

Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource ex...

This companion to The Business of Plant Breeding: Market-led Approaches to Plant Variety Design in Africa contains experiences from postgraduate ed...

The organic products market is experiencing rapid growth. This surge can be attributed to consumers' perception of organic products as healthier op...

An increase in the global population has led to a higher demand for food, besides complicating environmental, economic, and social issues. Agricult...

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...

Coral Reefs and Associated Marine Fauna around the Arabian Peninsula is a unique text that contains studies on a diverse range of topics related to...

Oceanographic and Marine Environmental Studies around the Arabian Peninsula presents studies on a range of topics related to the marine environment...

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes o...

Recycled Aggregate Concrete (RAC) as a sustainable material is gaining increasing importance in the construction industry. This book discusses prop...

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant addit...

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant addit...

Building information modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyse, and display a digital representa...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. Texas Longhorn cattle are categorised at critical risk...

Green chemistry is a vital subject playing a key role in environmental sustainability. Despite its importance, very little has been explored in the...

Enteric pathogenic viruses are a major challenge in public health, as they represent a major concern with a severe global impact to the economy, co...

This book is intended as a reference book for advanced graduate students and research engineers in block-in-matrix rocks (bimrocks) or soil and roc...

Project Design for Geomatics Engineers and Surveyors, Second Edition, continues to focus on the key components and aspects of project design for ge...

This title was first published in 2001. By presenting research from a multi disciplinary perspective, this book will serve as an important referenc...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

Originally published in 1990, Onions and Allied Crops, is a comprehensive account of the edible allium, examined across three volumes. The collecti...

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losi...

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losi...

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently traded in local, unregul...

This concise instructional guide condenses the most important aspects of large animal handling. It provides a portable, durable, beside-the-animal ...

During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and t...

Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and ...

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In partic...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addre...

The United States is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, so U.S. policies have big effects o...

The use of organic management practices in field cropping continues to rise globally, and these methods have proven to be a viable way to produce f...

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resour...

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that th...

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection ...

The discussion about energy perspectives beyond 2020, up to 2030 and eventually 2050 has started. There seems to be a verbal consensus on the neces...

Aeroponics: Growing Vertical covers aspects of the emerging technology, aeroponics, which is a sister to hydroponics, involving state-of-the-art co...

This sixth edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to success...

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the import...

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been com...

Practical statistics is a powerful tool used frequently by agricultural researchers and graduate students involved in investigating experimental de...

Wolves are controversial figures worldwide and much effort has focused on how to conserve them while addressing public concerns. With its solitary ...

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's ocean...