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Agroforestry Systems and Practices
Oxford Book Co. 2010; US$ 50.00Agroforestry is an integrated approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. In agroforestry systems, trees or shrubs are intentionally used within agricultural... more...
Agroecology and Strategies for Climate Change
Springer 2011; US$ 169.99Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are... more...
Integrating Agriculture, Conservation and Ecotourism: Societal Influences
Springer 2012; US$ 169.99Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems
CRC Press 2003; US$ 139.95This book explores alternative ways to study agricultural sustainability, applying complex systems theory to actual cases. This innovative text recognizes the changing dynamics of the multiple processes and cross-relations within an environment, proposing a clearer analysis of agroecosystems than that which can be provided by rigid, reductionist methods.... more...
Agroecosystem Sustainability
CRC Press 2000; US$ 115.95Agroecologists from around the world share experiences in the analysis and development of indicators of agricultural sustainability in this title. The authors build on the resource-conserving aspects of traditional agriculture as well as drawing on modern ecological knowledge and methods. more...
Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities
CRC Press 2001; US$ 115.95This title shows how human behaviour impacts agroecosystems both positively and negatively, and provides an understanding of alternative ways of working with human communities to increase agroecosystem sustainability. more...
Structure and Function in Agroecosystem Design and Management
CRC Press 2001; US$ 165.95This text discusses biological interactions, matter circulation, and disturbance operating within the agroecosystems in question. It covers matter cycling and focuses on reducing practices that require the consumption of large quantities of agrochemicals and fossil fuels. more...
Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate
CRC Press 2006; US$ 139.95Presenting a global perspective of climate change effects on agricultural production, this volume considers the consequences of changes in the atmosphere and climate for the integrity, stability, and productivity of agroecosystems. It melds together theoretical contributions from ecologists and the applied perspective of agriculturalists. This book... more...
CAP Regimes and the European Countryside
CABI 2000; US$ 130.00The objectives of this title are to review assessments made on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to judge the contribution of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the European Union. more...
Environment, Water Resources and Agricultural Policies
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 70.00China?s leaders face the daunting challenge of feeding the world?s largest population with limited resources. China?s per capita endowment of arable land is low and water scarcity is of particular concern. Not only is China?s endowment of water resources extremely low, but it is also badly distributed, with the North China Plain having one of the lowest... more...









