Primary Industries

This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between urban and rural pe...

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor peop...

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to...

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term succession...

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective. It offers a detailed and systematic examination of food security from its histo...

Direct Natural Gas Conversion to Value-Added Chemicals comprehensively discusses all major aspects of natural gas conversion and introduces a broad...

This text arose from a study originally undertaken for the Department of Energy to characterize the principal safety features of light water reacto...

Explore the inner workings of environmental processes using a mathematical approach. Environmental Systems Analysis with MATLAB® combines environme...

First published in 1975, this book provides a straightforward examination of regional differences and regional development in the countries of West...

First published in 1998, this book provides a broad but in-depth description of the issues, concepts, methods of analysis, and empirical results re...

In this volume, Lena Sommestad explores the significance of rural womanhood in the formation of Swedens gender-egalitarian welfare state in the ear...

This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety...

Harmal: The Genus Peganum is an in-depth treatment of one of the most commanding plants in the botanical kingdom. Humble in appearance, modest in i...

Written by Chris Maser, one of the architects of the sustainability movement, Interactions of Land, Ocean and Humans: A Global Perspective explores...

Reliability-based design is relatively well established in structural design. Its use is less mature in geotechnical design, but there is a steady ...

This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly re...

In this volume, Lena Sommestad explores the significance of rural womanhood in the formation of Swedens gender-egalitarian welfare state in the ear...

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Vol. 1 contains the contributions in presented at the XV International Forum-Contest of St...

More than 20 years after the ban of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides, pesticides continue to be detected in air, rain, soil, surface water, ...

Minorities in Shark Sciences showcases the work done by Black, Indigenous and People of Color around the world in the fields of shark science and c...

Minorities in Shark Sciences showcases the work done by Black, Indigenous and People of Color around the world in the fields of shark science and c...

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest front...

Strigolactones, Alkamides and Karrikins in Plants: Recent Updates and Future Prospects provides comprehensive knowledge on the various aspects of p...

As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative d...