Environment & Agriculture

The Mechanics and Physics of Modern Grain Aeration Management demonstrates the most advanced theoretical solutions and practical approaches to aeration as it affects grain storage science and technology that will be required for effectively cooling grain, for controlling storage insects and improvin..

Here is an easy-to-read, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. It is the first book to synthesize the goals of sustainable agriculture into eight comprehensive steps. This essential volume presents a convincing critique of our current agricultural sys..

This book applies “marketing channel” analysis to Africa's export agriculture and examines the opportunities, problems, and policies of the various channel members. You'll find a fresh and long-run view of export agriculture that is not entrapped in the current pessimism about downward t..

Based on a study and surveys conducted  in Ghana, this volume covers the various impacts of pesticide use in vegetable-based agro-ecosystems. The study carried out between 2003 and 2007 provides a better understanding of the potential impact of pesticide usage on the ecosystem and agrosystem, which ..

Presents the results of a doctoral study conducted on pesticide use in vegetable production in Ghana, West Africa. This book covers the various aspects of pesticide use, behavior, and impacts in vegetable-based agro-ecosystems and also presents the results of surveys conducted in Ghana...

An examination of through-the-wall radar imaging, this text discusses an emerging and important area of research and technology that is appealing to both engineers and scientists. It offers theory, analyses, and experimentations and covers key research and development efforts in signal processing, a..

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters._x005F_x000D_ Toward a Sustainable Wine Industry: Green Enology in Practice takes a broad look at the emerging trend of using sustainable wine production methods and business practices. It covers a multitude of aspects of the sustainable wine indu..

This volume gives an account of the morphology and taxonomy of "Trichoderma" and "Gliocladium", before disscusing their ecology and basic biology...

Ungauged catchments can be found in many parts of the world, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Inter and Intra-seasonal rainfall variability is large in these areas, and farmers depend more and more on additional surface and groundwater resources for their crop production. As a result, underst..

Understanding the key-hydrological processes, and determination of the frequencies and magnitudes of stream flows, is very important for local food production. This title studies these through a multi-method approach and develops a conceptual model to test the hypothesised conceptualisation of the f..

Exploring the dramatic growth and changes in the field of vermicomposting since 1988, this comprehensive review assesses the advancements made in government-funded projects in the U.S. and UK. It discusses outdoor and indoor windrows, container systems, wedge systems, and low labor requirements. It ..

Virtual Reality in Geography covers "through the window" VR systems, "fully immersive" VR systems, and hybrids of the two types. The authors examine the Virtual Reality Modeling Language approach and explore its deficiencies when applied to real geographic environments. This is a totally unique book..