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Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Springer 2007; US$ 249.99Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production, results in low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risks and lack of empowerment. Land degradation and soil fertility depletion are considered the major threats to food security and natural resource conservation... more...
The Agony of an American Wilderness
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2005; US$ 28.95What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise since its victories in the Pacific Northwest, and the Allegheny is its newest proving ground. This book explains what activists are after,... more...
Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation
CABI 2001; US$ 55.00This text has been developed from a workshop on "Technological Change in Agriculture and Tropical Deforestation" organized by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation. more...
Agriculture Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil
CRC Press 2002; US$ 239.95Kimble, a research soil scientist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service National Soil Survey Center in Lincoln, NE, relates Senate appeals to the agricultural sector to heed scientific evidence on global climate change. These 48 contributed chapters are derived from a July 1999 symposium designed to generate dialogue between all stak more...
Amazonian Dark Earths
Springer 2008; US$ 199.99Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. Associated with these are tracts of fertile, dark soils termed terra preta or dark earths. The late Dutch soil scientist Wim Sombroek (1934-2003) was instrumental in bringing the significance of these soils to the attention of the world. This title demonstrates his vision. more...
American Chestnut
University of California Press 2007; US$ 27.50The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees?a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within forty years, the blight had killed close to four billion trees and left the species... more...
Analysis of Pesticides in Food and Environmental Samples
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 179.95Examines the analytical methods and instrumentation used to determine pesticide residues in soil, water, air, and foods from both vegetal and animal origin. This book introduces pesticide classes and physicochemical properties, followed by trends in sample preparation, pesticide analysis, and quality assurance. more...
Applications of Physiological Ecology to Forest Management
Elsevier Science 1997; US$ 128.95Forest management is a complex process that now incorporates information obtained from many sources. It is increasingly obvious that the physiological status of the trees in a forest has a dramatic impact on the likely success of any particular management strategy. Indeed, models described in this book that deal with forest productivity and sustainability... more...









