Chapter 1: An Insight into Mycorrhiza Involved in Building Soil Health (Swami) -- Chapter 2: Integrated Soil Fertility Management (Yadav) -- Chapter 3: Mulching: An option to Improve Sustainable Soil Health (Gopalakrishnan) -- Chapter 4: Biofertilizers -- Chapter 5: Microbiome of rhizospheric soil and vermicompost and their applications in soil fertility, pest and pathogen management for sustai…
Introduction -- Agroextractivism: the desert grows -- The economic rationality of agroextractivism -- Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness -- The government of the affects -- Agroecology in post-development settings -- Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology -- The future, behind.This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing t…
Foreword 1 -- Foreword 2 -- Foreword 3 -- Acknowledgement -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Landscape evolutions in the human-environment system -- Part III. Natural disasters and impacts on the past societies -- Part IV. Climatic factors in the transitions of social systems -- Part V. Social adaptation and resilience to environmental stresses -- Part VI. Social-culture in connection with the…
Food Powders Characterization -- Sampling -- Particle Properties -- Bulk Properties -- Production, Handling, and Processing -- Storage -- Conveying -- Size Reduction -- Size Enlargement -- Encapsulation Processes -- Mixing -- Separation and Classification -- Drying -- Undesirable Phenomena and their Relation to Processing.Food Powders: Physical Properties, Processing, and Functionality is a com…
Part I: Introduction to Farm and Food Animal Law -- Part II: Industrial Animal Agriculture -- Part III: Marine Animals and Fishing -- Part IV: Food Production and Wildlife Protection: Pollinators, Soil, Habitat and Incidental Wildlife Losses -- Part V: Tools for Change: An Inventory of Global Farm Animal, Wildlife and Food Safety Laws.This volume is an inspiring and breakthrough piece of academ…
W.S. Leal: Pheromone Reception -- J.G. Millar: Pheromones of True Bugs -- W. Francke, K. Dettner: Chemical Signalling in Beetles -- P. Laurent, J.-C. Braekman, D. Daloze: Insect Chemical Defense -- B.V. Burger: Mammalian Semiochemicals -- S.R. Chhabra, B. Philipp, L. Eberl, M. Givskov, P. Williams, M. Cámara: Extracelluar Communication in Bacteria.
Part I: International Trade: Perspectives on Politics and Place -- Chapter 1. Protecting Geographical-Origin-Brands Abroad: The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement (Matthijs Geuze) -- Chapter 2. The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement: Controversial Negotiations and Controversial Results (Daniel J. Gervais) -- Chapter 3. The Global Struggle Between Europe and United States Over Geographical Indic…
Radioactivity -- Origins and Discovery -- Nuclear Energetics -- Radioactivity and Nuclear Reactions -- Types of Radioactive Decay -- Radionuclides -- Transmutation Research -- Archaeology and Dating -- Radioisotopes in Medicine -- Scientific and Industrial Applications -- Radiation -- Radiation and the Environment.RADIOACTIVITY – RADIONUCLIDES – RADIATION is suitable for a general audience …
GMO issues today- an introduction -- Public perception of plant biotechnology -- What is biotechnology? -- History and current uses of plant biotechnology -- Environmental concerns associated with GMOs -- Herbicide tolerance -- Virus resistance -- Insect resistance -- Second generation products (Quality-oils, proteins, starch etc.) -- Third generation products (biofactories etc.) -- GMO - Intel…
Importance of Tropical Forests -- Characteristics of Tropical Forests -- Classification of Tropical Forests -- Deforestation in the Tropics -- Management of Tropical Forests -- Plantations and Agroforestry Systems -- Approaches for Implementing Sustainable Management Techniques -- Conclusions.Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure o…