Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Field crops
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Illinois Agronomy Handbook, 1997-1998
Handbook of Corn Insects
Author: Kevin Lloyd SteffeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Agriculture and the Environment
Author: Noel D. UriPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594547065
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Agriculture in the United States is in the midst of a major transition motivated by economic and environmental factors. These include water quality and quantity, soil erosion, and the compatibility of agricultural production practices and the quality of the environment. Within the context of this change, US agricultural policy seeks to balance several objectives including an abundance of food and fibre at reasonable prices, economic security for agricultural producers, and conservation of natural resources. Agricultural chemical use and soil and water quality degradation associated with agricultural production are significant among the environmental problems confronting the United States. In fact, these are now perceived as environmental problems comparable to other environmental problems such as air quality deterioration and the release of toxic pollutants from industrial sources. While the growth of agricultural chemical use is an integral part of the technological revolution in agriculture that has generated major changes in production techniques, uncertainties about the health effects of agricultural chemicals are very important concerns. Severe soil degradation from erosion, compaction, or salinisation can destroy the productive capacity of the soil. It can also impair water quality from sediment and agricultural chemicals. This important new book looks at both of these significant issues - the relationship between agricultural chemical use and the environment and the relationship between soil and water quality degradation associated with agricultural production and the environment.
Agronomic Handbook
Author: Jr., J. Benton JonesPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420041509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Many agronomic reference books either focus on a single crop, several related crops, or specific soil topics but not on a full range of both crop and soil subjects. This unique handbook covers both major agronomic fields. Containing essential data and information on the culture of the world's major agronomic grain, oil, fiber, and sugar crops grown
Vocational Agriculture News and Notes
Author: Illinois Agronomy Handbook
Author: Recent Progress in Solving Some Farm Problems of Illinois
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Agricultural Experiment StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Handbook of Rural Studies
Author: Paul ClokePublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446206947
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
`This book raises the theoretical level of rural studies to new heights...the Handbook of Rural Studies will likely become a key resource on the bookshelves of the next generation of graduate students...′ - Gary Paul Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison `This Handbook powerfully demonstrates that rural spaces, rural societies and rural natures are at the very forefront of critical social science endeavour. Read this book, become a rural social scientist′ - Henry Buller, University of Exeter `An outstandingly comprehensive review of theory, research and the study of rural questions...an essential reference for students, scholars, politicians, developers and rural activists′ - Imre Kovach, Institute for Political Sciences, Budapest `This collection is an essential addition to any rural scholar′s library and will be a critical resource for both established rural scholars and rising graduate students interested in rural research topics′ - Peter B Nelson, Middlebury College `The Handbook of Rural Studies is a tour de force on changing rural people and places in a rapidly urbanizing global economy -- the most comprehensive interdisciplinary treatment of "rural" available anywhere. This is absolutely must reading for social scientists concerned about finding a prominent place for "rural" in scholarly discourse, institutional analysis, and public policy debates on the political economy of space′ - Daniel T Lichter, Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University The Handbook represents the vitality and theoretical innovation at work in rural studies. It shows how political economy and the ′cultural turn′ have led to very significant new thinking in the cultural representations of: rurality; nature; sustainability; new economies; power and rurality; new consumerism; and exclusion and rurality. It is organized in three sections: approaches to rural studies; rural research: key theoretical co-ordinates and new rural relations. In a rich and textured discussion, the Handbook of Rural Studies explains the key moments in which the theorization of culture, nature, politics, agency, and space in rural contexts have transmitted ideas back into wider social science.
Water Resources Engineering 98
Author: Steven R. AbtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description