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Agricultural resource use and management /

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, covering research on: Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Etingoff, Kimberly (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : Apple Academic Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front cover; about the editor; contents; acknowledgment and how to cite; list of contributors; introduction; part i -- water; chapter 1 -- a statistical assessment of the impact of agricultural land use intensity on regional surface water quality at multiple scales; chapter 2 -- discussion on sustainable water technologies for peri-urban areas of mexico city: balancing urbanization and environmental conservation; part ii -- soil and land; chapter 3 -- evaluation of post-harvest organic carbon amendments as a strategy to minimize nitrogen losses in cole crop production; Chapter 4 -- sustainability of us organic beef and dairy production systems: soil, plant and cattle interactionschapter 5 -- changes of soil bacterial diversity as a consequence of agricultural land use in a semi-arid ecosystem; part iii -- energy and greenhouse gases; chapter 6 -- a greenhouse gas and soil carbon model for estimating the carbon footprint of livestock production in canada; chapter 7 -- diesel consumption of agriculture in china; chapter 8 -- energy savings by adopting precision agriculture in rural usa; Chapter 9 -- reducing carbon emissions through improved irrigation management: a case study from pakistanpart iv -- impact of population growth; chapter 10 -- impact of a growing population in agricultural resource management: exploring the global situation with a micro-level example; chapter 11 -- crop breeding for low-input agriculture: a sustainable response to feed a growing world population; chapter 12 -- spatial-temporal variation of population growth and sustainability of food grain production in west bengal, india; author notes. 
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