Author: Mohd. Tamin b. YeopPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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A Special Report on Agricultural Land Use in Peninsular Malaysia
Author: Mohd. Tamin b. YeopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Evolution of Agricultural Land-use Patterns in Peninsular Malaysia
Author: Phin Keong VoonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309047498
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Rainforests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands, economic needs, and population growth. Without proper management, these forests and other natural resources will be seriously depleted within the next 50 years. Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics provides critically needed direction for developing strategies that both mitigate land degradation, deforestation, and biological resource losses and help the economic status of tropical countries through promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. The book includes: A practical discussion of 12 major land use options for boosting food production and enhancing local economies while protecting the natural resource base. Recommendations for developing technologies needed for sustainable agriculture. A strategy for changing policies that discourage conserving and managing natural resources and biodiversity. Detailed reports on agriculture and deforestation in seven tropical countries.
Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
Author: Virginia H. DalePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461383633
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Roger C. Dahlman Environmental Sciences Division U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C. The potential for humans to alter Earth's atmosphere has been recognized since the end of the 19th century when Arrhenius estimated that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide could alter the atmospheric radiation balance and raise average global temperature. Today, atmospheric CO concentrations play an important part in the 2 climate-change debate. Sources and sinks of CO associated with land use can be 2 significant determinants of the rate and magnitude of atmospheric CO change. 2 Combustion of fossil fuels and the deforestation associated with land-use change both contribute CO to the atmosphere; in contrast, biological processes on land create 2 potential sinks for the excess CO . Thus, land-use change and associated biological 2 processes become important elements in assessments of future atmospheric CO 2 increase; land-cover properties also affect the Earth's albedo, which is a climate feedback.
Climates and Societies - A Climatological Perspective
Author: M. YoshinoPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401710554
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The impact of climate on human activities and the effect of humans on cli mate are two of the most important areas of inquiry in climatology. These interactions conducted through physical, chemical and biological process es were described as early as Roman and Greek times. Marcus Vitruvius (75-25 B. C. ), a famous Roman engineer and architect, made the following observation about the climatic conditions necessary for founding a city: Land ideal for the health is slightly elevated and there should be neither fog nor frost. The direction of the slope and the distance to the swamps, lakes, and beaches must also be considered. The prevailing wind directions, observed by a wind tower at the center of the city, like Horologium at Athens, should be taken into consideration in city planning. The main and narrow streets should be placed in the middle angle of the two prevailing wind directions. Then the location of the Pantheons and squares should be decided. The influence of humans on climate was a major subject for discussion in the 19th century, inspired in part, by the rapid industrial growth and expanding deforestation of the time. D. L. Howard wrote brilliant pieces on the climate of London in the 1830s, while G . P. Marsh discussed the effects of forests on precipitation in the U. S . A. in the second half of the 19th century.
Strategical Changes and Optimum Land Use Alternatives for Perennial Agriculture in Peninsular Malaysia
Author: Ariffin bin Mohd. NorPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Technical Bulletin
Author: Cassava in Asia, Its Potential and Research Development Needs
Author: Publisher: CIAT
ISBN: 8489206481
Category : Cassava
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Pesticide Residues in Coastal Tropical Ecosystems
Author: Milton D TaylorPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203165586
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The coastal tropics comprise some of the most sensitive and yet the most understudied ecosystems in the world. Coastal plains and river valleys are also home to agriculture on a vast scale, and it is not surprising to find that streams and rivers receive the majority of agricultural runoff, carrying the residues of insecticides, fungicides and othe
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