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Coactive Forest Management
Elsevier Science 1992; US$ 50.00This book provides a theoretical basis and a collection of management science tools that account for the interactions between different components of a managed forest ecosystem. Accounting for these interactions is the rapid evolution of forest management away from a traditional agricultural commodities production problem to a multi-output problem... more...
Physical Characteristics of Soils, Plasticity, Settlement Calculations, Interpretation of In-Situ Tests
Elsevier Science 1984; US$ 167.50Physical Characteristics of Soils, Plasticity, Settlement Calculations, Interpretation of In-Situ Tests more...
Burning Issues
CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 49.95The role of fire in Australia's ecosystems, and how to manage fire both for safety and for diversity. more...
The Ecology of Soil Decomposition
CABI 2003; US$ 135.00Describing trophic interactions between species that carry out the decomposition of organic matter in the soil, this title addresses the key topics of functional groups, spatial stratification and succession patterns over time, involving bacteria, protists, fungi and micro-invertebrates. more...
Workshop Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
IOS Press 2010; US$ 131.00This book presents the combined proceedings of three workshops which make up part of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments.The remarkable advances in computer sciences throughout the last few decades are already making an impact in our daily lives. This is enabling the provision of intelligent environments; digital environments... more...
Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space
SPB Academic Publishing BV 2001; US$ 94.50Introduction Increasing conflagrations of forests and other lands throughout the world during the 1980s and 1990s have made fires in forest and other vegetation emerge as an important global concern. Both the number and severity of wildfires (accidental fires) and the application of fire for land-use change, seem to have increased dramatically compared... more...
Vertisols and Technologies for their Management
Elsevier Science 1996; US$ 430.00Vertisols, one of the eleven established soil orders, are clay soils with unusual and interesting properties. They cover more than 350 million hectares of land in the world and in tropical Africa alone there are over 100 million hectares. Because of their very small particle size and high surface area, these soils have higher physical and chemical... more...
Soil organic matter and its role in crop production
Elsevier Science 1973; US$ 290.00Soil organic matter and its role in crop production more...
Soil-Water-Solute Process Characterization
CRC Press 2004; US$ 239.95Beyond mere technical guidance, this book addresses the limitations of soil characterization methods and advises on alternatives. A holistic text, it considers complicating factors and methods of monitoring and modelling mass transfer processes. more...
The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 103.00Making use of a uniquely rich data set the authors analyze the ecological and economic impacts of a range of policies and examine whether the economic benefits of land clearing surpass the ecological costs. Their conclusions are surprising. more...









