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  • Farming the Black Earth

    Sustainable and Climate-Smart Management of Chernozem Soils

    par Boris Boincean, David Dent ...
    Collections series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book deals with the sustainability of agriculture on the Black Earth by drawing on data from long-term field experiments. It emphasises the opportunities for greater food and water security at local and regional levels.The Black Earth, Chernozem in Russian, is the best arable soil in the world and the breadbasket of Europe and North America. It was the focus of scientific study at the very ... En savoir plus

    $179.39 CAD

  • The Nature of Scientific Innovation, Volume I

    Processes, Means and Impact

    par David Dent ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    Innovation is a major driver of social, economic and environmental change and is researched extensively by academics from disciplines as diverse as, business, engineering, economics, sociology and psychology. On the whole, each discipline pursues its own pathway to understanding without an interdisciplinary framework that links diverse research outputs. This partite structure creates a remove from ... En savoir plus

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Scientific Innovation, Volume II

    Those Who Deliver

    par David Dent ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Innovation is a major driver of social, economic and environmental change and is researched extensively by academics from disciplines as diverse as, business, engineering, economics, sociology and psychology. On the whole, each discipline pursues its own pathway to understanding without an interdisciplinary framework that links diverse research outputs. This partite structure creates a remove from ... En savoir plus

    $204.99 CAD

  • Tony Allan

    An Intellectual Journey

    Modifié par David Dent, Martin Keulertz, Michael Gilmont ...
    Collections series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    This book follows Tony Allan’s journey through the maze of water management and global awareness of the risks of mismanagement, tracing the trajectory of the hydraulic mission from a time of infinite possibilities—fiat panis and piped water—to risk aversion, loss of confidence and political will, and post-water societies.Part I, spanning fifteen chapters, explores Tony Allan’s formative years at ... En savoir plus

    $107.99 CAD

  • Regenerative Agriculture

    What’s Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know?

    Modifié par David Dent, Boris Boincean ...
    Collections series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last diesel engine. This book is a trans-disciplinary approach to what needs to be done to make our food system sustainable and to regenerate soil and water resources, habitat, economy and society. The book brings back classical principles of agronomy and integrates economic, agro-ecological and social perspectives, drawing on a wealth of ... En savoir plus

    $421.99 CAD

  • Soils Under Stress

    More Work for Soil Science in Ukraine

    Modifié par Yuriy Dmytruk, David Dent ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine. His student and friend, Volodymyr Vernadsky, went on to create trans-disciplinary environmental sciences and the concept of Earth as a living organism, famously taken up by James Lovelock. That spring of ideas still flows and the researches captured in this volume are relevant to present-day problems, and not only in Ukraine.Soils have always ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Black Earth

    Ecological Principles for Sustainable Agriculture on Chernozem Soils

    par Igori Arcadie Krupenikov, Boris P Boincean, David Dent ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Soil is the Earth’s living skin. It provides anchorage for roots, holds water long enough for plants to make use of it and the nutrients that sustain life – otherwise the Earth would be as barren as Mars. It is home to myriad micro-organisms and armies of microscopic animals as well as the familiar earthworm that accomplish biochemical transformations from fixing atmospheric nitrogen to recycling ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Hoddesdon & Broxbourne Through Time

    par David Dent, Sue Garside, Stephen Jeffery-Poulter ...
    Collections series Through Time
    Hoddesdon really came into its own between the sixteenth and mid nineteenth centuries as a coaching town providing a welcome stopping place for travellers from London setting out on the Old North Road. Broxbourne, just to the south, was a smaller and more rural settlement focused around the church and manor house until the coming of the railway in 1840 began the process of gradual suburbanisation ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Assess Land Degradation at Multiple Scales

    Current Status, Future Trends, and Practical Considerations

    par Genesis T. Yengoh, David Dent, Lennart Olsson, Anna E. Tengberg, Compton J. Tucker III ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land degradation at different scales and for a range of applications, including resilience of agro-ecosystems. Evidence is drawn from a wide range of investigations, primarily from the scientific peer-reviewed literature but also ... En savoir plus

    $70.49 CAD

  • Soil as World Heritage

    Modifié par David Dent ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Soil as World Heritage celebrates a half century of field experiments on the Balti Steppe, in Moldova - where Dokuchaev first described the Typical Chernozem in 1877, protected from the elements by a unique system of shelter belts designed by the great man, and now provisionally listed as the first World Heritage Site for soil. The book presents contributions to the 2012 international symposium ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • Soil Science Working for a Living

    Applications of soil science to present-day problems

    Modifié par David Dent, Yuriy Dmytruk ...
    Collections series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil, air and water. The chapters are grouped in four main themes: soil development - properties and ... En savoir plus

    $179.39 CAD

  • Rural Planning in Developing Countries

    Supporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods

    par David Dent, Olivier Dubois, Barry Dalal-Clayton ...
    This book provides an international perspective on rural planning, focused on developing countries. It examines conventional development planning and innovative local planning approaches, drawing together lessons from recent experience of rural planning and land use. The authors examine past and current practice and ways that land use planning and management of natural resources can underpin ... En savoir plus

    $309.18 CAD