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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
Apple Academic Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.