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A comprehensive overview of the health effects of plant based antioxidants, this book reviews medicinal and aromatic plants from around the world. It covers the different sources of antioxidants, the role of abiotic and biotic stresses, endophytes, transgenic approaches in scavenging ROS and antioxidant plants used in different therapeutic systems.

This book brings together the essential evidence and policy opportunities regarding the global importance of soil carbon for sustaining essential ecosystems services. Covering the science and policy background for this important natural resource, it describes land management options that improve soil carbon status.

This book addresses the social and cultural side of events and explores the role events have in fostering change and community development. It examines the transformatory function of events in the context of development studies - as phenomena that can promote and facilitate human development, including social, societal and individual change.

The environmental quality and popularity of a tourist destination is the outcome of sustained development. This book therefore examines the tourism business in terms of 'greening' the local economy, people and environment, establishing the green agenda and investigating its application to the tourism sector.

This book contributes to the understanding of crisis and disaster management generally, but with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific. With chapters contributed by international scholars and practitioners, it discusses both the theoretical and practical approaches toward successful crisis and disaster management.

This book focuses on understanding farm-level transitions in Europe. Using case studies from various countries in the EU it adopts a novel analytical approach based on transition management theory and discusses the importance of understanding transition pathways towards sustainability in European agriculture at a time of economic recession.

This book provides an introduction to medical metabolomics and systems biology, and demonstrates how they have been applied to studies in medicine and human health, including nutrition and pathogenic microorganisms. Focusing on diagnosis, pathology and aetiology of disease, it provides a reference in how to use metabolomics for medical research.

Insect transgenesis promises improvements in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and public health. This book discusses the latest insect transgenesis technology and its applications. It considers the larger risks, social and economic aspects of transgenic insects whose value must be proven in political, regulatory and public acceptance arenas.

Describing developments in the engineering and generation of plants as production platforms for biopharmaceuticals, this book includes vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. It discusses targeting diseases which predominate in less developed countries, encompassing the current state of technologies and describing expression systems and applications.

A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies. From an environmental and health perspective, it is not always practical to spray chemicals, so this work discusses sustainable control and best practice methods for managing insects.

There are many new developments in knowledge of the factors affecting fruit ripeness, and this monograph is a comprehensive account covering the latest molecular mechanisms regulating fruit ripening, its impact on human nutrition and emerging research and technologies.

Over 20,000 deaths are associated with dengue virus infections yearly, and DF/DHF is globally one of the most important emerging tropical diseases. This updated edition gathers leading research and clinical scientists to review the latest findings on dengue virus biology, epidemiology, entomology, therapeutics, vaccinology and clinical management.

This new edition is a timely update due to important advances in the understanding of infectious diseases of finfish. The content has been significantly updated to reflect current knowledge and the developments in the fish production industry in the last ten years, including the dramatic increases in production in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book integrates soil health, sustainable agriculture, nematode ecology and suppressive services provided by the soil food web to provide holistic solutions. With particular focus on integrated soil biology management, it describes how to enhance the activity of natural enemies and use soil biological processes to reduce losses from nematodes.

This book provides a research-level review of the current understanding of human microbiomes, functions they bring to the host, how we can model them, their role in health and disease, and exploration methods. It also covers current, hot-topic research in areas such as the long-term effects of antibiotics.

Plants constantly cope with unfavourable ecosystem conditions, preventing them reaching full genetic potential for growth, development and productivity. This book covers plants' responses to environmental changes, gathering the most recent developments, it is an important resource for researchers and students of crop stress and plant physiology.

This book covers a wide spectrum of human health and diseases including the role of phytonutrients in prevention and treatment. It includes the biological and clinical effect, molecular level approach, quality assurance, bioavailability and metabolism of a number of phytochemicals and their role in combating different diseases.

Bacterial pili enable bacteria to interact with the environment, surfaces and other bacteria and host cells. This book discusses the synthesis, structure, evolution, function and role in pathogenesis of these complex structures, and their basis for vaccine development and therapeutics for Streptococcus pathogens.

The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is attracting increasing attention. This book examines the history of natural environments used for stress-reduction, enjoyment, aesthetics and catharsis, and traces the development of connections between humans and environment, and how they impact our personal and collective health.

A flea-educated owner is an owner able to effectively prevent, control and treat infestations. Detailing the most effective treatment and prevention options, this book includes practical advice pitched at a level for veterinary staff to relay to owners, through an easy question and answer format.

This book focuses on future global climate change and its implications for agricultural systems which are the main sources of agricultural goods and services to society. This book brings together a series of chapters providing scientific insights to possible implications of projected climate changes for different crop types and livestock systems.

Are you wishing you knew all you need to know about how to better communicate science, without having to read several hundred academic papers and blogs and books? This highly readable and entertaining book captures the breadth of research into best practice science comuunications and has distilled it into accessible chapters.

This revised edition of this unique textbook is specifically designed for statistics and probability courses taught to students of forestry and related disciplines.

This is the first book on the cutting-edge field of transcriptomics and its applications in entomology.

Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines provides a clear understanding of vineyard soils and how to manage and improve soil health for best vineyard performance.

With antimicrobial resistance on the rise, appropriate stewardship is more important than ever. This textbook, the first written by nurses for nurses, provides a clear and concise approach to good practice.

The aim of this book is to present a readable account of butterfly behaviour, based on field observations, great photographs and the latest research.

A study of how invasive species policies have shifted significantly towards relying upon private citizens and industry to manage established invasive species. The title provides a concentrated source of advanced theoretical knowledge and best practice advice about ways to manage the human dimensions of invasive species.

The book summarizes the history of biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book covers the most highly important and the most neglected parasites in a concise manner, with questions on parasite biology, epidemiology, diagnostics and management, all in relation to animal health. Designed to help you study anywhere, with any amount of time, 555 questions test your parasite knowledge!