Primary Industries

Given the design component it involves, financial engineering should be considered equal to conventional engineering. By adopting this complementar...

The book examines three important research questions against the backdrop of increasing private sector participation in the Indian mining industry....

Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, The Lootin...

Did Saskatchewan give away the goose that laid the golden egg? When it comes to potash, John Burton claims we did. And he asks, where is the money ...

The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakel...

This book assesses the state of the science on the environmental impacts of mountaintop mines and valley fills (MTM-VF) on streams in the Central A...

CYRIL HART''s seminal work on woodland management and practices is back in this fourth edition, which covers a wealth of material including financi...

How destructive or beneficial are forest fires to wildlife? Should we be trying to reduce or increase the amount of fire in forests? How are forest...

Restoration of our national forests benefits the environment and creates jobs in rural communities. Increasing the pace of restoration of the Natio...

This book examines the research and monitoring components in understanding the extent and success of forest management efforts to promote resilienc...

TRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe's largest fishing port. Jimmy's sto...

As a young boy, David witnessed bulldozers obliterate a forest for a bypass. Decades later, he resolved to replace the annihilated trees with anoth...

This book makes a significant academic contribution because the study enriches the theories of social capital, governance and participatory forestr...

Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources s...

Providing a critical and incisive examination of community forestry, this is a detailed study of complex issues in local forest governance, communi...

Providing a critical and incisive examination of community forestry, this is a detailed study of complex issues in local forest governance, communi...

Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we prin...

Forest management includes a range of human interventions that affect forest ecosystems. These activities include both conservation and economic ac...

Forests are enormously important to mankind. They not only supply essential harvestable products, but also ornamental landscapes, regulate climate,...

For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from ...

Fisheries management draws on fisheries science in order to find ways to protect fishery resources so sustainable exploitation is possible. This bo...

Due to the intensity of research in the field warm water fish nutrition in Egypt, the decision was made to conduct the last fish nutrition in publi...

The East Anglian herring fishing industry can trace its roots back to before the Norman's arrived in 1066. The main ports, and great rivals were Gr...

This extraordinary book is the result of over three decades of Dr. Krisna Rungruangsak-Torrissens career at the Institute of Marine Research in Nor...

Many historic houses decorating Skip Finley's native Martha's Vineyard were originally built by whaling captains. Whether in his village of Oak Blu...

The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across Nor...

December, 2014: In the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Bob Barker embarks on a voyage unlike any seen before. Across t...

The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) represents a major international effort to improve fisheries governance, resource recovery, and su...

Knowing next to nothing about fishing, Rosemary McGuire signed on to the crew of the Arctic Storm in Homer, Alaska, looking for money and experienc...

The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring have been commercially caught and its import...

The fishing industry has always been important to Britain. From the deepsea trawlers to the traditional craft that sailed around the coast, the har...

A trawlermans life was hard, often up against bad weather, rough seas and black frosts, although on calm days it was a pleasure to be at sea. In th...

Responsible fisheries management is of increasing interest to the scientific community, resource managers, policy makers, stakeholders and the gene...

For centuries Britains commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home mar...

This is the narrative of a harpooner in the whale-ship Charles W Morgan, whose four-year voyage in 1849-1853 took him from New Bedford, Massachuset...

In the early 1990s the collapse of the Atlantic groundfish stocks signaled the destruction of life in the seas, but it also threw 40,000 people out...

The first large-scale study of the important, but as yet largely invisible, group of Icelandic women who live on the sea -- their lives, contributi...