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  • Services écosystémiques et protection des sols

    Analyses juridiques et éclairages agronomiques

    by Carole Hermon ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    En droit, le sol n’est pas appréhendé dans son entièreté, comme un ensemble complexe aux fonctions diverses. Dès lors, sa protection demeure lacunaire.Rédigé dans le cadre du programme de recherche « Travail du sol, services écosystémiques et compensation. Aspects agronomiques et juridiques » (Idex T2SEC, UT1 Capitole, IEJUC EA1919), cet ouvrage entend explorer le potentiel apport de la notion de ... Read more

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  • Diffusion and transfer of knowledge in agriculture

    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    This book focuses on innovation in the agri-food system and the new paradigm drawn by bioeconomic approaches and principles. It draws on contributions presented during the 29th EURAGRI annual conference held in Luxemburg (September 2015) as well as on other workshops organised as part of EURAGRI. EURAGRI is an informal gathering of EU research and higher education organisations and ministries ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology

    Established and Emerging

    The importance of molecular approaches for comparative biology and the rapid development of new molecular tools is unprecedented. The extraordinary molecular progress belies the need for understanding the development and basic biology of whole organisms. Vigorous international efforts to train the next-generation of experimental biologists must combine both levels – next generation molecular ... Read more

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  • Thinking about the Future of Food Safety: A Foresight Report

    Agrifood systems are undergoing a transformation with the aim to provide safer, more affordable, and healthier diets for all, produced in a sustainable manner while delivering just and equitable livelihoods: a key to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, this transformation needs to be executed in the global context of major challenges facing the food and agriculture ... Read more

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  • El estado de los bosques del mundo 2014

    Los bosques, los árboles en las explotaciones agrícolas y los sistemas agroforestales desempeñan un papel decisivo para los medios de vida de la población rural de todo el mundo al proporcionarle empleo, energía, alimentos nutritivos y una vasta gama de otros bienes y servicios ecosistémicos. Poseen un enorme potencial para contribuir al desarrollo sostenible y a una economía más verde; sin ... Read more

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  • Caminhos Extensionistas no Semiárido Baiano: (Re)Significando os Saberes das Comunidades Agrícolas para a Sustentabilidade

    Este opúsculo apresenta trajetórias de trabalhos de extensão desenvolvidos no município de Xique-Xique, BA, que descortinam diversas informações, saberes e tradições das comunidades estudadas, rurais e urbanas; o seu cotidiano, o seu modo de produção, beneficiamento e processamento de seus produtos agrícolas. São discorridas histórias de mulheres que se superam a cada dia, conquistando o seu ... Read more

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • China’s Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia’s Energy Transition

    Carbon Leakage, Relocation and Halos

    Edited by Akihisa Mori ...
    This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China’s carbon-energy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of renewable energy technologies.China shows a co-evolution of carbon-energy policy and energy transitions from coal to renewables. Assessing how the policy intensifies pressures and ... Read more

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  • Developing Modern Livestock Production in Tropical Countries

    Proceedings of the 5th Animal Production International Seminar (APIS 2022), Malang, Indonesia, 10 November 2022

    The Animal Production International Seminar (APIS) is the first international conference held by the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya. APIS was held for the first time in 2010 and was repeated every three years. In 2022, the 5th APIS was organized as an online meeting. The Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya, is optimistic that the results of the 5th APIS will just be ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Dynamic Programming

    For Chemotherapy Drug Delivery

    This open access book focuses on the practical application of Adaptive Dynamic Programming (ADP) in chemotherapy drug delivery, taking into account clinical variables and real-time data. ADP's ability to adapt to changing conditions and make optimal decisions in complex and uncertain situations makes it a valuable tool in addressing pressing challenges in healthcare and other fields. As ... Read more

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  • Состояние лесов мира 2016: Леса и сельское хозяйство: проблемы и возможности землепользования

    В докладе "Состояние лесов мира (СОФО) – 2016" на примере успехов, достигнутых во Вьетнаме, Гане, Гамбии, Грузии, Коста-Рике, Тунисе и Чили, показано, что можно добиться повышения продуктивности сельского хозяйства и укрепления продовольственной безопасности и одновременно с этим остановить и даже обратить вспять процесс обезлесения. Комплексное планирование землепользования является ключевым ... Read more

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  • Children of the Flood

    What if the West Antacrtic Ice Sheet melts? Where will we live if there are ever more human beings for ever less land? Here's a dramatic and at times light-hearted exploration of some solutions that are being proposed -- or even being implemented. Under the earth or atop the sea -- will we be able to live well there if need to arises? Might we choose to live there anyway for advantages that homes ... Read more

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  • Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings

    Global Design Guide

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by Linneaus University.It provides guidance on the design of timber buildings for fire safety, developed within the global network Fire Safe Use of Wood (FSUW) and with reference to Eurocode 5 ... Read more

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  • Carpenter Bee Traps

    This is an easy woodworking project to make carpenter bee traps out of 2x4 or tree branch scraps & a jar using minimal tools. It gives the bees a nice chunk of wood with premade holes that lead to a glass jar. They land on the outside of it, climb up into a tunnel that leads up at about a 45° angle to another that goes straight down through a jar lid into daylight, & they're stuck in the jar until ... Read more

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  • Phytotechnology with Biomass Production

    Sustainable Management of Contaminated Sites

    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/9781003082613, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book explains the concept of using phytotechnology with biomass production to improve soil quality and restore contaminated sites to a useful state that has economic and social ... Read more

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  • Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns

    Government Disinformation, Industry Profits, and Public Harm

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations.Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have been increasingly used in densely populated urban environments, and when faced with invasive species, governments have resorted to large-scale ... Read more

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  • Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Volume 2: Fish Resources, Fisheries, Sea Turtles, Avian Resources, Marine Mammals, Diseases and Mortalities

    Edited by C. Herb Ward ...
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, ... Read more

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  • 160 ressources pour se lancer dans la vidéo quand on n’y connait rien

    by Richard ALX ...
    ⚠ Pour tous ceux qui pensent que le marketing vidéo est coûteux, compliqué et chronophage, oubliez cela : ce sont juste des idées préconçues…Retrouvez dans ce guide de ressources, TOUS les outils nécessaires pour vous aider dans chaque étape de votre marketing vidéo. Ils sont pour la plupart gratuits, d'une prise en main rapide et orientés vers les néophytes ou utilisateurs occasionnels.Voici ce ... Read more

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  • Water Level Indicator Circuit Using Bipolar Junction Transistor

    by Manikandan KJ ...
    Many circuits related to water level sensing/control are easily available on the internet, but the major drawback of all circuits which uses a metal probe as sensors is electrolysis. Electrolysis does not take place in circuits which uses a float switch or other sensors, but they are costly compared to circuits which use metal probes. Pure waters are bad conductors of electricity but unfortunately ... Read more

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  • Ideas for Post-human Civilization

    by Si Te Feng ...
    Most people imagine the future to be a wonderful place, perhaps even flawless. Just how good the future is? In the book: Ideas for Post-human Civilization, the author has a rather pessimistic view on this topic. Through convincing evidence, the book will show you some dangerous flaws that exist in the society today that might drive humanity to extinction in the future. ... Read more

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  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

    Current Status and Future Trends

    Guiding readers through the basics of these rapidly emerging networks to more advanced concepts and future expectations, this book examines the most pressing research issues in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Leading researchers, industry professionals, and academics provide an authoritative perspective of the state of the art in MANETs. The book includes surveys of recent publications that ... Read more

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  • Entering the Race to the Moon: Autobiography of an Apollo Rocket Scientist

    This is the autobiography of John P. Hornung, a rocket scientist during the early years of NASA’s Apollo Mission to the moon. The writing describes four chapters in his life. Three of them were selected for their significance in U.S. history; early school integration in the deep south, a period of brutality in the US Marine Corps, and landing a man on the moon. A fourth chapter includes short ... Read more

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  • Deltas in the Anthropocene

    The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world’s deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major land use change, the ... Read more

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  • Innovation Landscape brief: Blockchain

    IRENA’s Innovation Landscape report highlights innovations in enabling technologies. ... Read more

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