Elsevier, 2016. — 633 p. The book covers different heavy metals and their effect on soils and plants, along with the remediation techniques currently available. As cultivable land is declining day-by-day as a result of increased metals in our soil and water, there is an urgent need to remediate these effects. This multi-contributed book is divided into four sections covering...
Food Products Press, 2004. — 252 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 1560229233, 9781560229230 Explore the latest research on biological control! Completely updated for 2004, this new edition examines methods for making agricultural systems less susceptible to insect pests. Containing new findings and reports of strategies, Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems, Second Edition...
CRC Press, 2016. — 268 p. — 9 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations. — (Advances in agroecology). — ISBN: 1482241773, 9781482241778 Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Action-oriented Approach is the first book to focus on agroecology as a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented process. Using a combined theoretical and practical approach, this collection...
Springer, 2018. — 437 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-1860-3. Agriculture is currently facing multi-faceted threats in the form of unpredictable weather variability, frequent droughts and scarcity of irrigation water, together with the degradation of soil resources and declining environmental health. These stresses result in the modification of plant physiology to impart greater...
CRC Press, 2014. — 386 p. — ISBN: 1482233029, 9781482233025 We hear a lot about how agriculture affects climate change and other environmental issues, but we hear little about how these issues affect agriculture. When we look at both sides of the issues, we can develop better solutions for sustainable agriculture without adversely affecting the environment. Agroecology,...
Springer, 2019. — 337 p. — ISBN: 3030019527. This book presents feedback from the 'Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action'- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to...
Springer, 2019. — 337 p. — ISBN: 3030019527. This book presents feedback from the 'Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action'- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to...
5th Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2019 (2020). — 437 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-45565-3. Contemporary soil science and conservation methods of effective forestry Forests and the soils that serve as their foundation cover almost a third of the world’s land area. Soils influenced by forest cover have different properties than soils cultivated for agricultural use. Ecology and Management...
4th ed. — Wiley, 2013. — 368 p. — ISBN 0470979461, 047097947X. Forest soils are the foundation of the entire forest ecosystem and complex, long-term interactions between trees, soil animals, and the microbial community shape soils in was that are very distinct from agricultural soils. The composition, structure, and processes in forest soils at any given time reflect current...
Springer, 2016. — 629 p. — ISBN: 3642309410, 9783642309410 Hans-Peter Blume, Gerhard W. Brümmer, Heiner Fleige, Rainer Horn, Ellen Kandeler, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Ruben Kretzschmar, Karl Stahr, Berndt-Michael Wilke The soils are fundamental to our existence, delivering water and nutrients to plants, that feed us. But they are in many ways in danger and their conservation is...
3rd Edition. — Academic Press, 2018. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-805251-8. Key Features Includes extensive tables and diagrams in full color to enhance concepts Combines theoretical and practical approaches to understanding and applying soil ecology Outlines suggested laboratory and field methods Soil scientists, researchers, faculty, and graduate students in soil science fields....
CRC Press, 2019. — 217 p. — (Advances in Agroecology). — ISBN: 978-1-138369-22-1. Political Agroecology is the first book to offer a systematic and articulated reflection on Political Agroecology from the Agroecological perspective. It defines the disciplinary field responsible for designing and producing actions, institutions and regulations aimed at achieving agrarian...
Ohne Autor. — Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt, Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz (StMUGV); Staatsinstitut für Schulqualität und Bildungsforschung (ISB). — Ohne Jahre. — 272 p. Vom „Jäger und Sammler“ zum modernen Landwirt Ohne Nährstoffe keine Bodenfruchtbarkeit Im Kreislauf – Das Nährelement Stickstoff Landwirtschaftliche Bodennutzung und ihre Auswirkungen...
Academic Press, 2018. — 303 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-849873-6. This book provides comprehensive information on soil pollution, including causes, distribution, transport, the transformation and fate of pollutants in soil, and metabolite accumulation. The book covers organic, inorganic and nanoparticle pollutants and methodologies for their monitoring. Features a critical discussion...
Springer, 2014. — 665 p. — ISBN: 3319116193, 9783319116204 Conservation agriculture — consisting of four components including permanent soil cover, minimum soil disturbance, diversified crop rotations and integrated weed management — is considered the principal pathway to sustainable agriculture and the conservation of natural resources and the environment. Leading researchers...
The eighth edition is a major revision in which there has been careful revision of the topics covered as well as changes in the depth of coverage. Many new figures and tables are included. Summary statements are given at the ends of the more difficult sections within chapters, and a summary appears at the end of each chapter. Many nonagricultural examples are included to...
Springer, 2019. — 150 p. — ISBN: 9783030118235. This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing the power relations that exist in contemporary agriculture. The author endeavors herein to clarify some of the strategies that industrial agribusiness, in collusion with the state and multilateral structures, sets in motion in order to functionalize the lives...
Springer, 2019. — 161 p. — ISBN10: 3030118231, 13 978-3030118235. This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing the power relations that exist in contemporary agriculture. The author endeavors herein to clarify some of the strategies that industrial agribusiness, in collusion with the state and multilateral structures, sets in motion in order to...
CRC Press, 2010. — 382 p. — (Advances in agroecology). — ISBN: 9780849319174, 084931917X With all of the environmental and social problems confronting our food systems today, it is apparent that none of the strategies we have relied on in the past?higher-yielding varieties, increased irrigation, inorganic fertilizers, pest damage reduction?can be counted on to come to the...
2nd ed. — CRC Press, 2006. — ISBN: 9781420004397 E-ISBN: 9781498709347 Print ISBN: 9780849328466 Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems. Offering step-by-step guidance for structured investigation, Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology, Second Edition reviews...
CRC Press, 2005. – 800 p. – ISBN: 1566706084. The purpose of this book is to evaluate the history and characteristics of chromium(VI) in the environment, in industry, and in society. The book was created by the Independent Environmental Technical Evaluation Group (IETEG), a volunteer research organization located in Northern California. It was created in 1997 to present...
Academic Press, 2015. — 739 p. The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants. Among them, heavy metals are an exclusive group of toxicants because they are stable and difficult to disseminate into non-toxic forms. The ever-increasing concentrations of such pollutants in the soil are considered serious threats toward everyone’s health and the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0199773351, 9780199773350 Evidence has been mounting for some time that intensive row-crop agriculture as practiced in developed countries may not be environmentally sustainable, with concerns increasingly being raised about climate change, implications for water quantity and quality, and soil degradation. This volume synthesizes...
Springer, 2016. - 257 p. This book presents a comprehensive and detailed description of remediation techniques for metal-contaminated soils derived from both natural processes and anthropogenic activities. Using a methodical, step-by-step presentation, the book starts by overviewing the origin of toxicants and the correlated comparative extent of contamination to the...
Springer, 2014. — 385 p. 107 illus., 38 illus. in color. — ISBN: 9401788065, 9789401788069. Intensive high-yield agriculture today is typically dependent on addition of fertilizers (synthetic chemicals, animal manure, etc.). Increased knowledge on animal manure management and plant nutrient chemistry is required for improving utilization efficiency and minimizing losses of both...
Intech, 2014. — 903 p. Soil is an irreplaceable resource that sustains life on the planet, challenged by food and energy demands of an increasing population. Therefore, soil contamination constitutes a critical issue to be addressed if we are to secure the life quality of present and future generations. Integrated efforts from researchers and policy makers are required to...
InTech, 2012. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-953-307-614-0 Soils play multiple roles in the quality of life throughout the world, not only as the resource for food production, but also as the support for our structures, the environment, the medium for waste disposal, water, and the storage of nutrients. A healthy soil can sustain biological productivity, maintain environmental quality,...
Academic Press, 1998. - 771 p., ISBN: 0123486556 An abridged, student-oriented edition of Hillel's earlier published Environmental Soil Physics, this is a more succinct elucidation of the physical principles and processes governing the behavior of soil and the vital role it plays in both natural and managed ecosystems. The textbook is self-contained and self-explanatory, with...
Academic Press, 1997. – 487 p. – ISBN: 0123782600, 9780123782601 Agricultural crops are prominent features of an increasing number of variously perturbed ecosystems and the landscapes occupied by these ecosystems. Yet the ecology of agricultural-dominated landscapes is only now receiving the scientific attention it has long deserved. This attention has been stimulated by the...
Utrecht University, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University), 2003. — 225 p. — ISBN: 903933384X. Bioavailability is a complicated issue. In this thesis, Tjalling Jager discusses how organic chemicals are taken up by earthworms, and to what extent. Earthworms are essential for soil fertility, as well as important dietary items for a range of predators. A...
Chelsea House Pub, 2005. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0816056080, 9780816056088 From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up–Like Shades of Green: The Clash of Agricultural Science and Environmental Science (Facts On File, 1998), this detailed revision discusses the history of and key figures associated with two green revolutions. One consists of the tremendous strides made in agriculture due to...
Apple Academic Press, 2013. — 552 p. — ISBN: 1926895487, 9781926895482 Comprised of three sections, this covers the nutrient dynamics and productivity of global agroecosystems. It focuses on the major aspects that make up agroecosystems, such as soils, climate, crops, nutrient dynamics, and productivity. It introduces agroeocsystems and describes global soil types that support...
Taylor & Francis, 2004. — 528 p. — ISBN13: 9780824753245 This book addresses the topic of soil’s physical properties and processes with particular reference to agricultural, hydrological, and environmental applications. The book is written to enable undergraduate and graduate students to understand soil’s physical, mechanical, and hydrological properties, and develop...
CRC Press, 2010. 224 p. ISBN: 978-1-4398-0073-7 From its humble beginning in the late 19th century when Henry Ford’s first car was designed to run on ethanol biofuel production has been on the rise with more than 26 billion liters produced in the U.S. in 2007. Ethanol made from biomass (rather than grains) holds great promise, including numerous economic and environmental...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – 2004. – 544 p. Concerns over environmental and human health impacts of conventional weed management practices, herbicide resistance in weeds, and rising costs of crop production and protection have led agricultural producers and scientists in many countries to seek strategies that take greater advantage of ecological processes. This book...
Springer, 2013. — 330 p. 201 illus. — ISBN: 9400759169, 9789400759176 This book represents an interdisciplinary approach to the relevant aspects of agricultural production related to the interactions between natural processes, human activities and the environment. It provides condensed and comprehensive knowledge on the functions of various agroecosystems at the field,...
Braşov: Editura Universităţii Transilvania, 2012. — 461 p. Capitole: Agricultură generală. Cultura plantelor. Bază furajeră. Patrimoniul pastoral. Creşterea animalelor. Economie montană. Dezvoltare rurală. Protecţia mediului. Aspecte socio-culturale. Impresii de peste hotare.
Oxford University Press. 1994. — 406 p. Review of Chemical Principles Soil Solids: Composition and Structure on Exchange Chemisorption and Precipitation ofInorganic Ions Soil Acidity Mineral Weathering and Formation Oxidation-Reduction Reactions Salt-Affected and Swelling Soils Trace and Toxic Elements in Soils Organic Pollutants in Soils
Springer, 2019. — 411 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-8831-6. This book focuses on the impact of sustainable management of soil and environment on improving the functioning of soil-ecosystems and agronomic productivity, and also discusses food security, nutrient cycling, recent advances in INM technologies, eco-friendly cultivation, agricultural practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)...
CRC Press, 2002. – 272 p. – ISBN: 0415273404, 9780415273404 This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them. It is well illustrated and contains a fully-referenced introduction to the main contemporary agricultural pollution...
Academic Press, 2019. — 578 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-813493-1. This book focuses on biotic and biogeochemical responses to warmer soils including plant and microbial evolution. It covers various field settings, such as arctic tundra; alpine meadows; temperate, tropical and subalpine forests; drylands; and grassland ecosystems. Information integrates multiple natural science...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 340 p. — ISBN: 0199556431, 0198722877. This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. From the early-eighteenth century, settlers moved to the semi-arid but fertile grasslands from wetter, forested regions in central and northern Russia and Ukraine, and from central Europe. By the late-nineteenth century, they had turned...
The text remains based on courses given on the Silsoe campus of Cranfield University and, again, contains material from research and advisory work carried out by myself, my colleagues and students. As before, the contributions of the last two groups are much appreciated. The text is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying soil erosion and conservation as...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 414 p. — ISBN: 1405190108, 9781405190107 The movement of sediment and associated pollutants over the landscape and into water bodies is of increasing concern with respect to pollution control, prevention of muddy floods and environmental protection. In addition, the loss of soil on site has implications for declining agriculturalproductivity, loss of...
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012. — 168 p. — ISBN: 1849733856, 9781849733854 Modern agriculture must seek to feed the world's growing population with little or no cost to the Environment. Modern agriculture is capable of producing greater yields than ever before, but intensification of agriculture does come at a price. This comprehensive volume examines the environmental impact...
Springer, 2008. - 430 p. Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of C and N fluxes between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere; issues related to C and N management in different ecosystems and their implications for the environment and global climate change; and the approaches to mitigate emission of...
Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9086862357, 9789086862351 One of the challenges under current land management practices is to increase food and soil security to meet projected trends in food production, while maintaining the resilience to climate change. This book provides a forum for researchers to access the most recent developments in enhancing carbon...
Springer, 2013. — 221 p. — ISBN: 3319025406, 9783319025407, 9783319025414. Forest soil characteristics are not only unique but their interpretation also differs from cropland soils. Just as there are diverse forest types, there are many soil variants that need different management. Today, forest plantations are being intensively managed for profitable timber, pulpwood and...
This new book by Marc Pansu and Jacques Gautheyrou provides a synopsis of the analytical procedures for the physicochemical analysis of soils. It is written to conform to analytical standards and quality control. It focuses on mineralogical, organic and inorganic analyses, but also describes physical methods when these are a precondition for analysis.
InTech, 2015. - 230 p. ISBN: 978-953-51-2130-5 This book is a collection of chapters, concerning the developments within the Agroecology field of study. The book includes scholarly contributions by various authors pertinent to Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Each contribution comes as a separate chapter complete in itself but directly related to the book's topics and...
InTAvE, 2014. — 283 p. — ISBN: 9535113402, 9789535113409 This book covers multiple topics respecting modern, precious organic agriculture research. The book is a compilation of chapters focused on development of organic agriculture, the role of sustainability in ecosystem and social community, analysis of environmental impacts of the organic farming system and its comparison...
New York: Momentum press, 2015. — 250 p. Traditional site remediation approaches typically focus on the reduction of contaminant concentrations to meet cleanup goals or risk-based corrective levels, with a primary emphasis on remediation program cost and timeframe. Such an approach, however, may result in ancillary impacts to the environment that, when considered in totality...
Springer, 2020. — 444 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-19321-8. This textbook presents the concepts and processes involved in the soil-plant-atmosphere system as well as its applications in the water cycle in agriculture. Although reaching the frontier of our knowledge in several subjects, each chapter starts at the graduation level and proceeds to the post-doctoral level. Its more...
Springer, 2015. - 292 p. - This book examines the costs involved in reducing ammonia emissions from agricultural practices as well as the potential benefits for climate change mitigation. It features contributions by experts in agricultural production processes, producers of agricultural equipment and service providers as well as scientists who assess the issue from an European...
CRC Press, 2001. — 378 p. — Advances in Agroecology. — ISBN: 0849309190, 9780849309199 Successful management of agricultural landscapes depends on the recognition of the relationships between the processes and the structures that maintain the system. The rapidly growing science of Landscape Ecology quantifies the ways these ecosystems interact and establishes a link between the...
Island Press, 2007. — 468 p. — ISBN: 1597261289, 9781597261289 A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of ecoagriculture landscapes to generate...
Elsevier Science, 2008. — 432 p. — ISBN: 044451905X, 9780444519054 Sustainable agriculture is a key concept for scientists, researchers, and agricultural engineers alike. This book focuses on the FAM- project (FAM Munich Research Network on Agroecosystems) of the 1990s as a means to assessing, forecasting, and evaluating changes in the agroecosystems that are necessary for...
CRC Press, 2001. — 450 p. — Advances in Agroecology. — ISBN: 0849309042, 9780849309045 Structure and Function in Agroecosystem Design and Management presents an advanced discussion of the need to design agricultural systems that 1) increase reliance on biological interactions in agroecosystems as a means of decreasing dependence on the use of large quantities of agrochemicals...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 3319497235. This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security. Advances in microbial technologies are explored in chapters dealing with topics such as carbon sequestration, soil fertility management, sustainable crop production, and...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 262 p. — ISBN10: 331949726X. This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security. Advances in microbial technologies are explored in chapters dealing with topics such as plant-microbe interactions, rhizoremediation and cyanoremediation, and...
Scrivener Publishing, 2014. - 524 p. - The levels of toxic and microbial contamination in the food and environment are influenced by harvesting or slaughtering technologies and by the processes applied during food manufacture. With current cultivation methods, it is impossible to guarantee the absence of pesticides and pathogenic microorganisms in raw foods, both of plant and...
4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2004.- 656 p. - ISBN: 0130968072. Written from an agronomic rather than an engineering perspective, this introduction to soil and water conservation explores a full range of topics and environmental issues, including some ignored or overlooked in other books on the subject. Comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible, it considers the hazards posed by...
First edition. Printed by UNEP and IFA, Paris, December 2001. This report on the environmental aspects of phosphate and potash mining is the fifth in a series published jointly by the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As such, this publication completes a series that looks at environmental aspects of the...
Wiley, 2009. — 350 p. — ISBN: 0-7637-7153-8. Agroecology is the science of applying ecological concepts and principles to the design, development, and management of sustainable agricultural systems. The Ecology of Agroecosystems highlights a collection of alternative agricultural methodologies and philosophies and pres an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. XIV, 406 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–957592–3 (hbk.), ISBN 978–0–19–968816–6 (pbk.). This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from...
CRC Press ,2011. — 488 p. — ISBN: 041588277X, 9780415882774 This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the realization of improved rainfed agriculture yield in semi-arid and dry land areas. The incentive of watershed programs is to increase the return on investment with over 20% for 65% of the projects that are currently underperforming. Besides techniques to improve...
The MIT Press, 2007 — 273 p. — ISBN: 978-0-262-23252-4. American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-source water pollutionrunoffs of pesticides, nutrients, and sediments into streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. In Agroecology in Action, Keith...
Wicherek Stanislas P. Water and Agriculture. 2005, Center de Biogéo, Paris. The great agricultural plains conjure up visions of wealth and fertility. Paradoxically though, they are confronted with a serious problem: eroding soils and alteration of water quality. Today the best lands in the world are threatened by a diminution of natural fertility, a decrease in crops, floods,...
CRC Press, 2015. — 271 p. — ISBN: 1498745024 Agroecology theory is not endless. A point is reached where the central elements become visible, equations distill, and a conceptual apex is reached. This is agroecology condensed into core concepts and theorems describing how crops relate to each other, the land, and their surroundings. This book covers advanced agroecology,...
The book introduces concepts and processes in a logical way so that students and laymen who do not have much background in this area are can read the book without too much diffi culty. The book has also summarized the contemporary research fi ndings with extensive references.
Springer, 2016. - 431 p. This book focuses on the taxonomic diversity of the genus Tuber as economically important truffles. In contributions by internationally respected scientists, it examines truffle systematics, interactions with abiotic and biotic environments, strategies for spore dispersal, and molecular processes in truffles. Topics discussed include: evolutionary...
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