Agricultural Resource Use and Management

ISBN-13: 9781774632017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 348 str.

Kimberly Etingoff

Opis

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Agriculture is one of the prime users of water, particularly in arid places with already-limited water resources, and its effects are diverse and far reaching. Providing a nuanced study of agricultural resource management, this informative book takes a four-pronged approach, c

Spis treści

Introduction. Water. Soil and Land. Energy and Greenhouse Gases. Impact of Population Growth. Index.

O autorze

Kimberly Etingoff's background includes city and regional planning, farming, food systems programming, sociology, and urban geography. She studied at the University of Rochester and Tufts University and has done extensive field work with food systems and agricultural sociology. She has been writing and editing academic and educational books on topics such as nutrition, farming, and aspects of sociology for more than ten years.