Environment & Agriculture Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook of Tropical Residual Soils Engineering

   Edited by Bujang B.K. Huat, David G. Toll, Arun Prasad

   Residual soils are found in many parts of the world. Like other soils, they are used extensively in construction, either to build upon, or as construction material. They are formed when the rate of rock weathering is more rapid than transportation of the weathered particles by e.g., water, gravity...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
2. Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications

   Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

   Edited by Michael Blakeney, Thierry Coulet, Getachew Mengistie, Marcelin Tonye Mahop

   The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Only One Earth

   The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development

   By Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss, Maurice F. Strong

   Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. The Rhetoric of Food

   Discourse, Materiality, and Power

   Edited by Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture in the Dry Areas

   By Theib Y. Oweis, Dieter Prinz, Ahmed Y. Hachum

   Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but also ‘natural leakage’ - 90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or domestic use. Water harvesting is a low-cost, easy-to-use, environmentally-friendly way to recover a large part of this lost water. How...

   Published May 20th 2012 by CRC Press
6. Medicinal Plants

   Biodiversity and Drugs

   Edited by M. K. Rai, Geoffrey A. Cordell, Jose L. Martinez, Mariela Marinoff, Luca Rastrelli

   This volume provides a contemporary overview of new strategies for traditional medicine development, of the importance of cataloging ethnomedical information, of determining the active principles, and of examining the genetic diversity and range of actions of traditional medicines. It discusses the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Science Publishers
7. The Global Economics of Forestry

   By William F. Hyde

   This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of forest development, and then discusses the...

   Published May 10th 2012 by RFF Press
8. Agrometeorology in Extreme Events and Natural Disasters

   By H.P. Das

   This volume deals with a broad variety of extreme events that affect agriculture and presents effective risk management strategies. It explains events and their effects and presents techniques and strategies to cope with disasters such as drought, volcanic eruption, pests, etc. and minimize...

   Published May 9th 2012 by CRC Press
9. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants

   Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set)

   By Umberto Quattrocchi

   "Following on the successes of two previous dictionary projects, the CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of the Grasses, Umberto Quattrocchi has undertaken this dictionary of economically important plants…. He has done for these plants what was so admirably done in his...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by CRC Press
10. Fungal Cell Wall

    Structure, Synthesis, and Assembly, Second Edition

    By José Ruiz-Herrera

    Series: Mycology

    Fungal Cell Wall: Structure, Synthesis, and Assembly, Second Edition is a compendium of information on the chemical structure, synthesis, and organization of the cell wall of fungi. Reviewing the past 20 years of research in the field, it discusses experimental evidence that demonstrates the role...

    Published April 30th 2012 by CRC Press