ilość książek w kategorii: 1425
The Economics of Landscape and Wildlife Conservation
ISBN: 9780851992228 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, landscape and wildlife conservation has attracted increased attention from environmentalists and policy-makers. There have been policies within the European Union aimed at conserving wildlife and landscape in Europe for more than a decade and appraisal of these policies is opportune. A workshop was therefore held at the University of Hohenheim in September 1996, to examine critical issues associated with these policies. This workshop was one of a series, each focusing on a key theme as part of the EU Concerted Action, -Policy measures to control environmental impacts from...
In recent years, landscape and wildlife conservation has attracted increased attention from environmentalists and policy-makers. There have been polic...
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630,65 zł |
Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter
ISBN: 9780851994659 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Includes some 50 edited and revised papers from an international conference on Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter, held by the British Society of Soil Science in Edinburgh in September 1999.
The book explores the results of recent research studies examining how organic matter functions in soils, factors affecting organic matter quality and quantity and how management of organic matter can be optimized in order to achieve sustainable farming practices. *Includes some 50 edited and revised papers from an international conference on Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter, held by the British Soc...
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779,50 zł |
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
ISBN: 9780963810922 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers. But for farm entrepreneurs, the opportunities for a farm family business have never been greater. The aging farm population... Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even voca... |
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141,66 zł |
Mushrooming Without Fear: The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms
ISBN: 9781602391604 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Novices eager to collect tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it focuses only on those types that are both safe to eat and delicious. Most important, it presents the eight rules of mushroom gathering in a straightforward fashion--including "Never, never take a mushroom with gills" and "If a mushroom smells rotten, it is rotten." Among the many mushrooms covered are the cep; the red-cracked, larch, bay, and birch boletes; hen of the woods, chanterelle, trumpet chanterelle, hedgehog fungus, common puffball, horn of plenty, and cauliflower mushroom. Each is...
Novices eager to collect tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it focuses only on those types that are both safe...
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64,21 zł |
Sustainable Agriculture and Food
ISBN: 9781844074082 / Angielski / Twarda / 1944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Jules Pretty brings together the most comprehensive and carefully selected collection of writings available about sustainable agriculture. Together with an excellent overview chapter, the collected works provide the best available source for an enlightened analysis and debate about sustainability in agriculture. The four volumes will serve both as an excellent reader for students and a unique reference for all with an interest in the pursuit of sustainabiity in the food system' Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, former Chair of CGIAR Science Council and World Food Prize...
'Jules Pretty brings together the most comprehensive and carefully selected collection of writings available about sustainable agriculture. Together w...
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3934,89 zł |
Forests and Society: Sustainability and Life Cycles of Forests in Human Landscapes
ISBN: 9781845930981 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a broad-ranging textbook on the relationships between forests and society. It discusses the ways in which society can interact with forest landscapes without adversely affecting their sustainability. Topics covered include attitudes to, and uses of forests, the creation of today's forest landscapes, the impact of humans on forests, and forest sustainability and human health.
The book also examines emerging issues in forestry such as possible solutions to balancing societies' needs with forest sustainability, managing forests in the urban-wildland interface, and... This book provides a broad-ranging textbook on the relationships between forests and society. It discusses the ways in which society can interact with...
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259,74 zł |
Poultry Book - A Guide for Big or Small Poultry Keepers, Beginners and Farmers
ISBN: 9781846641039 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to keeping poultry on a small and large scale, with detailed information on selection and breeding, feeding, rearing, housing, plucking, and all other related aspects. Contents include: The Beginner, Breeds and Strains, Houses and Appliances, Foods and Feeding, Hatching, Rearing, Backyard Poultry Keeping, Intensive Poultry Keeping, Winter Egg Production, Day Old Chicks, Ducks, Turkeys, Geese, Guinea Fowls, Diseases of Poultry, Vermin, Egg Preserving, Killing and Shaping, Plucking, Drawing, Trussing, etc. Many vintage books such as this are...
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to keeping poultry on a small and large scale, with detailed information on selection and breeding, f...
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115,38 zł |
Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development
ISBN: 9781853838163 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on fieldwork and involving farmers, extension workers and researchers, this is an edited volume of studies of how farmers successfully experiment and innovate to increase productivity, often in adverse and resource-poor conditions. It covers a wide range of countries and varieties of farming and shows how successful and motivating an approach that builds on farmer innovation can be. It confirms the resourcefulness of the farmers themselves and provides an alternative to the conventional "transfer of technology" development paradigm - one that recognizes the farmers themselves as the...
Based on fieldwork and involving farmers, extension workers and researchers, this is an edited volume of studies of how farmers successfully experimen...
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218,27 zł |
Manual of Fertilizer Processing
ISBN: 9780824775223 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1903,98 zł |
Plants and Beekeeping - An Account of Those Plants, Wild and Cultivated, of Value to the Hive Bee, and for Honey Production in the British Isles
ISBN: 9781406745238 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the British Isles. Plants And Beekeeping contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable utility to the modern bee keeper, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Plants and the Beekeeper, Honey in Relation to Nectar Source, Notes on Unpalatable and Poisonous Honey, Pollen, The Hive Bee and Pollination, Artificial Bee Pasturage or Planting for Bees, Garden Flowers and The Honey...
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the Britis...
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168,29 zł |
Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding Livestock Behavior and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals
ISBN: 9781603420280 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of understanding livestock behavior, Temple Grandin shows you how to develop a respectful working relationship with your animals to promote their health and productivity. With detailed construction plans for animal-friendly facilities of all sizes and dozens of low-stress methods for moving your livestock on pastures, padlocks, and feedlot pens, this guide has everything you need to know to create a comfortable atmosphere for thriving, happy livestock.
Discover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of underst...
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107,32 zł |
Ecohydrology: Processes, Models and Case Studies
ISBN: 9781845930028 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecohydrology is an emerging new sub-discipline which links elements of ecology with hydrology at all points in the water cycle, ranging in scale from water-plant physiological relationships to whole catchment water-ecosystem processes. This book pays most attention to the larger scales of ecohydrology, emphasizing the use of this tool in striving towards the goal of sustainable water management. Authors from Eastern and Western Europe, America, Australia and South Africa give a broad global context.
Ecohydrology is an emerging new sub-discipline which links elements of ecology with hydrology at all points in the water cycle, ranging in scale from ...
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646,68 zł |
Mycorrhizae: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
ISBN: 9781402087691 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mycorrhizal fungi are microbial engines which improve plant vigor and soil quality. They play a crucial role in plant nutrient uptake, water relations, ecosystem establishment, plant diversity, and the productivity of plants. Scientific research involves multidisciplinary approaches to understand the adaptation of mycorrhizae to the rhizosphere, mechanism of root colonization, effect on plant physiology and growth, biofertilization, plant resistance and biocontrol of plant pathogens. This book discusses and goes into detail on a number of topics: the molecular basis of nutrient exchange... Mycorrhizal fungi are microbial engines which improve plant vigor and soil quality. They play a crucial role in plant nutrient uptake, water relati... |
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894,96 zł |
Rural Change and Sustainability: Agriculture, the Environment and Communities
ISBN: 9780851990828 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws upon selected, revised and edited papers from a conference of rural geographers from the UK, USA and Canada, held at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. It focuses on rural regions, which are facing conflicting demands, pressures and challenges, which themselves have far-reaching implications for rural space and society. Themes that occur throughout the book include agricultural change, environmental issues, rural communities, governance and globalization, and rural responses to these.
This book draws upon selected, revised and edited papers from a conference of rural geographers from the UK, USA and Canada, held at the Universities ...
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646,68 zł |
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa
ISBN: 9780821376522 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihoods. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors and within the...
The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihoods. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imp...
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246,49 zł |
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
ISBN: 9781603421386 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you'll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long.
This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; ra...
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81,55 zł |
Environmental Protection: European Law and Governance
ISBN: 9780199565177 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The EU has emerged as a major source of innovation in environmental governance. This is manifested through the frameworks it is putting in place for environmental governance, and through its position on the world stage for international environmental law. An institutional richness has developed which is sometimes daunting in its complexity but which offers much promise for the future. This volume seeks to give a taste of this, and of the challenges which face the EU in its sustainable development phase.
The volume opens with a broad historical overview of the evolution of EU environmental... The EU has emerged as a major source of innovation in environmental governance. This is manifested through the frameworks it is putting in place for e...
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679,71 zł |
Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision
ISBN: 9781402090301 / Angielski / Twarda / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed terra preta or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future sustainability of food production in tropical environments. The late Dutch soil scientist Wim Sombroek (1934-2003) was instrumental in... Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary po... |
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778,22 zł |
Practical Poultry Breeder - Or, How to Make Poultry Pay
ISBN: 9781443759083 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to poultry farming, with information on selection, breeding, feeding, housing, diseases and ailments, and much more. Although old, the information of this volume is timeless and will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in poultry farming. Contents include: General Remarks, Houses and Runs, What are the Best Fowls to Keep, Feeding, How to Breed, and What to Breed From, Pure Bred Fowls, Bantams, Cross-Bred Fowls, Sussex and Sussex Fowls, Poultry Farming and Keeping, Preparing Birds for the Show Pen, and Diseases . Many...
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to poultry farming, with information on selection, breeding, feeding, housing, diseases and ailments, and ...
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139,44 zł |
Plants and Beekeeping - An Account of Those Plants, Wild and Cultivated, of Value to the Hive Bee, and for Honey Production in the British Isles
ISBN: 9781443726894 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the British Isles. Plants And Beekeeping contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable utility to the modern bee keeper, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Plants and the Beekeeper, Honey in Relation to Nectar Source, Notes on Unpalatable and Poisonous Honey, Pollen, The Hive Bee and Pollination, Artificial Bee Pasturage or Planting for Bees, Garden Flowers and The Honey...
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the Britis...
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259,69 zł |