Environment & Agriculture

Reliability-based design is relatively well established in structural design. Its use is less mature in geotechnical design, but there is a steady progression towards reliability-based design as seen in the inclusion of a new Annex D on "Reliability of Geotechnical Structures" in the third edition o..

The aim of the book is to introduce the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of robotics, mechatronics and automation in agriculture in order to further summarize and improve the methodologies on the agricultural robotics...

This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of agricultural biodiversity in a series of specially commissioned chapters...

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

Saffron is a precious spice which is mainly grown in Iran, India, Spain, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Morocco, and central Asian countries. Until recently, saffron was perceived only for its value as a spice. However, with recent research findings pointing to the medicinal properties of saffron such as ..

Scaling in Integrated Assessment..

Encompassing all of the myriad components involved in seed conditioning, this comprehensive compendium draws on the life experiences, trials, and efforts of a range of seed conditioners. Utilizing a brief and easy-to-understand format, this book expounds on the need for good seed conditioning for a ..

This book introduces an assessment framework identifying governance actors, styles and ratios for socio-ecological systems. The assessment uses a new governance compass to identify the types of actors completing which tasks and identifies the styles of governance used to complete the tasks. Using Ub..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book is a specialized monograph on soil physical conditions and root-system relations...

Soybean Production in the Midsouth..

Beginning with a conceptual approach to the representation of space adopted by GIS, this book examines spatial databases, the acquisition and compilation of data, the analytical compilation of data, the analytical functionality of GIS, and the creation and utilization of critical foundation data lay..