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This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.

This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.

This book reveals how pro-environmental actions can boost individuals' and communities' wellbeing, as well as resulting in positive environmental changes. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of biodiversity conservation, environmental sustainability, ecosystem services and environmental psychology.

In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine.

Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the 1980s. It traces developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China, in particular the impact of changes in the labour process and broader political economy.

The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR's economy. It looks at the Soviet economy's growth process at an advanced stage of development, and assesses how it would evolve in the period ahead.

Energy Reviews: Unified Gas Supply System of the USSR (1985) explores some important aspects of the development and operation of the unified gas system of the Soviet Union.

Originally published in 1946, this book is based on a series of broadcast talks on design. Led by an engineer, an artist and critic of architecture and industrial design, the discussions focussed on the problems that were involved by a general application of design to the environment of contemporary life.

Originally published in 1944, The Missing Technician shows how Industrial Design must begin at the very first stages of planning a product.

Originally published in 1943, The Place of Glass in Building gives the facts about the physical properties, the possibilities and the limitations of the glass in common use.

This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on organic soil amendments.The first chapter discusses some common issues regarding the use of bio-based fertilisers, such as the concentration of nutrients leading to losses of reactive nitrogen (N) and phosphorus into the environment.The second chapter provides a critical evaluation of the potential of compost to improve soil health, as well as its effect on soil nutrient cycling, soil hydraulic properties, crop productivity, soil biodiversity and environmental quality. Two case studies on the benefits and risks of using compost in perennial and annual crops are also included.The third chapter reviews the benefits of service crops, including cover and catch crops, in both intensive cropping systems and low input systems. The chapter discusses an array of studies from temperate Europe to illustrate these benefits, including the use of service crops for reducing N leaching losses.The final chapter addresses how crop rotations affect nitrogen flows in organic farming systems and how these rotations can be utilised to optimise the nitrogen cycle and improve nitrogen use efficiency. The chapter utilises 30 years' worth of data collected from over 90 different temperate field studies published between 1990 and 2020.What is an Instant Insight? An Instant Insight gives you immediate access to key research on a topic, allowing you to get right to the heart of a subject in an instant and empowering you to contribute to sustainable agriculture.

Provides easily accessible information for developers, planners, consultants, scholars, students and others with an interest in contemporary Mongolia. Prefaced by a general overview of the land and society. Chapters, all written by international experts, cover a wide range of topics.

Today, sustainability is a critical issue in the fashion industry. However, it can be challenging for fashion businesses to adopt green marketing strategies while keeping up with digital innovations. The book, Driving Green Marketing in Fashion and Retail , explores cutting-edge techniques to provide solutions to this challenge. It is an essential guide for fashion marketers looking to align their practices with environmental responsibility. As consumers become increasingly conscious of the environmental and social impacts of their purchasing decisions, fashion brands must adapt or risk being left behind. This book offers a comprehensive roadmap for embracing sustainability through digital marketing channels. From leveraging AI and big data analytics to implementing eco-friendly packaging solutions, each chapter presents actionable insights tailored to the modern fashion landscape.

The Coral Triangle, a kaleidoscope of marine life, boasts the greatest biodiversity on Earth. Yet, most focus on the giants of the deep. This book dives deeper, celebrating the "small majority" - the tiny but vital creatures that power this underwater paradise.

Uniting real-world crises with everyday research and learning, this pioneering work champions the importance of governance and global cooperation for enacting era-defining change and sustaining and protecting life below water.

From the best-selling, award-winning author of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest comes a book of stunning imagery and text, capturing Ireland's wild places.

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles. Britain and Ireland are home to around 300 species of rare flowering plants, and many more rare ferns, mosses, liverworts and freshwater algae. These are species at the cutting edge of biodiversity: fascinating, often beautiful, and in decline. Yet as some teeter on the brink, more rare species are still being discovered. In Rare Plants, prize-winning author Peter Marren describes the allure of Britain and Ireland's vanishing wild flora, from the simple joy of plant hunting to the wonder and (sometimes) weirdness of the plants themselves, as well as their important place in our landscape and culture. He also explores the condition of rarity in the context of our changing world and climate: why do plants become rare, what threats do they face, and what opportunities do we have to protect them before it is too late? The book concludes with an overview of different conservation techniques, using test cases such as Lady's Slipper Orchid and Starved Wood-sedge, and asks at what point careful management becomes gardening, and how far we are justified in intervening in the life of a wild species. Illustrated with around 300 colour images by some of our best plant photographers, as well as boxed texts telling the fascinating stories of several key species, this is above all a celebration of rare plants and why they matter.

"Bridging together architecture and festival, ritual and community, past and present, Architecture and Cultural Continuity provides an interdisciplinary philosophical framework for evaluating architecture as experience rather than uniquely form. Utilising primarily the Festival of San Giovanni as a site of study, establishing the importance of cultural depth to architecture, both through its participation in such ritualised events, as well as when it is the background to everyday life. Global case studies - from Turkey to Japan, and from a range of different time periods - highlight how architecture can prioritise community and belonging. Will appeal to researchers in architectural history and theory and cultural studies"--

First Published in 1965, The Panchatantra is a reprint of Franklin Edgerton's translation, first published in volume two of Panchatantra Reconstructed (1924), with some minor alterations. This translation work is an important book for scholars and students of South Asian literature and Sanskrit studies.

First published in 1997, this title brings together the selected papers of seventeen architects, social scientists and planners. It offers a range of original perspectives on the relationship between the design and habituation of the built environment on the one hand and social and cultural development on the other.

This book examines the dynamic between citizens' trust and good governance using the case study of Bangladesh. It will be of interest to political science, public administration, governance studies, development studies, and urban studies as well as local government administration and civic engagement and governance.

This book examines the role of Bacillus bacteria in aquaculture, particularly focusing on finfish and shellfish. It covers foundational aspects, interactions of Bacillus with gastrointestinal tracts, their role in bioremediation and as probiotics in feed biotechnology. It is intended for professionals and researchers in aquaculture.