Author: Landbouwhogeschool WageningenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Wageningen University Papers
Author: Landbouwhogeschool WageningenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Paper Series
Author: Wageningen Agricultural University Papers
Author: Forest and Nature Governance
Author: Bas ArtsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400751133
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance. In its broadest interpretation, governance is about the many ways in which public and private actors from the state, market and/or civil society govern public issues at multiple scales. This book takes a fresh perspective on the study of forest and nature governance. Departing from ‘practice theory’, and building upon scholars like Giddens, Bourdieu, Reckwitz, Schatzki and Callon, it seeks to move beyond established understandings of institutions, actors, and knowledge. In so doing, it not only presents an innovative conceptual and methodological framework for a practice based approach, but also rich case studies and ethnographies. Finally, this book is about how actors involved in governance talk about and work with trees, forests, biodiversity, wildlife, and so on, while acting upon forest policies, environmental discourses, codes of conduct, or scientific insights.
Edible Insects
Author: Arnold van HuisPublisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9789251075951
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Although the majority of consumed insects are gathered in forest habitats, mass-rearing systems are being developed in many countries. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. This publication describes the contribution of insects to food security and examines future prospects for raising insects at a commercial scale to improve food and feed production, diversify diets, and support livelihoods in both developing and developed countries. It shows the many traditional and potential new uses of insects for direct human consumption and the opportunities for and constraints to farming them for food and feed. It examines the body of research on issues such as insect nutrition and food safety, the use of insects as animal feed, and the processing and preservation of insects and their products. It highlights the need to develop a regulatory framework to govern the use of insects for food security. And it presents case studies and examples from around the world. Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. To fully realise this potential, much work needs to be done by a wide range of stakeholders. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.
Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action
Author: Ioannis N. AthanasiadisPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030398153
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2020, held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, in February 2020. The 22 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics on environmental informatics, including data mining, artificial intelligence, high performance and cloud computing, visualization and smart sensing for environmental, earth, agricultural and food applications.
Theoretical Production Ecology
Author: R. RabbingePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Professor de Wit's valedictory address is included.
Wageningen Agricultural University Papers
Author: Microbiological Methods for Assessing Soil Quality
Author: Jaap BloemPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9781845932398
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book provides a selection of microbiological methods which are applicable or already applied in regional or national soil quality monitoring programmes. An overview is given of approaches to monitoring, evaluating and managing soil quality (Part I), followed by a selection of methods which are described in sufficient detail to use the book as a practical handbook in the laboratory (Part II). Finally a census is given of the main methods used in over 30 European laboratories. The book is aimed at different levels: soil scientists, technicians, policy makers, land managers and students.
Wildlife Resources of the West African Savanna
Author: S. de BiePublisher:
ISBN: 9789067541985
Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The wild fauna in Africa is a renewable resource and its overexploitation has led to the depletion of animal populations.