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This volume is a comprehensive compilation of all scientific names introduced at all taxonomic levels within the culicid family, offering insight into the history of mosquito classification as well as providing a bibliographic reference source. It is ideal for students, entomologists and taxonomists interested in culicid nomenclature and etymology.

This book aims to provide a broad overview of the issues surrounding air pollution and how to control and monitor pollution levels. Beginning with a brief background on the subject, the book moves on to discuss global emissions, with an emphasis on megacities and their effects.

While the "Green Revolution" was a major success, many issues with food production and increasing population and climate change mean that countries such as India face major challenges. Paroda argues for choosing the best technologies and blending them with rich traditional knowledge to attain sustainable development goals.

The "bioeconomy" is the idea of economic activity involving the sustainable exploitation of biological resources. This book illustrates state of the art perspectives in the development of the bioeconomy across the world, taking an economic and policy perspective, and identifies potential future pathways and issues.

This book is concerned with the profitable production of spice crops at all levels of management, more efficient processing and greater utilization.

This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and Ganoderma is the most devastating disease of oil palm.

Oil palm is the top oil crop and the only major crop and only oil crop not to have been improved by plant mutation breeding. This manual is hands-on, providing step-by-step illustrated methods in a range of key activities in mutation induction, mutation detection and mutant line development in oil palm.

Oil palm is the world's most important oil crop. Crossing is essential in commercial seed production, breeding and genetic studies. This book, written by experts, illustrates crossing techniques to maximise success and safeguard purity, enabling the production of high quality seeds to grow-on as planting material and in breeding superior cultivars.

This is a practical guide to seed germination in oil palm for both breeding and genetic studies as well as commercial seed production. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and this manual provides step-by-step illustrated methods, written by practitioners actively engaged in oil palm seed production and breeding.

This book tells the story of a critically endangered tree species with a unique biological and socio-cultural importance. This is a unique case study showing an example of plant species conservation in action under difficult circumstances.

Quality-of-life in tourism and hospitality can be classified in three categories: (1) tourists/guests (2) employees of tourism/hospitality firms (3) tourist communities. This unique resource delivers the latest research findings within these areas to the forefront of knowledge application in tourism and hospitality settings.

Although soybean is a major global crop, it suffers significant losses often because of an incomplete understanding of the extent of soybean diseases, and the feasibility and benefits of disease control. This book covers evidence on disease incidence and severity, management strategies and new technologies.

In this fascinating book, Professor Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds, and vectors of disease and then discusses their future.

New technologies can create ethical tensions when there is a conflict of interests, values or rights. One of the key examples of such technology is agricultural biotechnology. This book explores the reasons for those tensions, and potential solutions.

Cleaner Fish Biology and Aquaculture Applications reviews and presents new knowledge on the biology of the utilised cleaner fish species, and provides protocols in cleaner fish rearing, deployment, health and welfare.

This book adopts a methodical approach to provide a novel exploration of the effects of GM crops on global economy, as well as examining the links between GM and food security at global and regional levels. The environmental implications of GM are also considered, by comparing pesticide use and efficiency in GM and non-GM countries.

This book takes a transdisciplinary approach and considers multisectoral actions, integrating health, agriculture and environmental sector issues, to comprehensively explore the topic of sustainable diets. It informs readers with arguments, challenges, perspectives, policies, actions and solutions on this global topic.

This book provides a global view of the tools and resources used in demand and supply management in the context of pilgrimage and religious tourism. It uses a focus on toolkits and best-practice to reinforce quality of service provision, offer a reflection on consumers' perspectives and intentions to purchase, and support sustainable development.

This new, full colour edition presents current research to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of controlled and modified atmosphere, hyperbaric and hypobaric storage of fresh fruits and vegetables. It includes 5 new chapters covering genetics and CA storage, dynamic CA storage, hyperbaric storage, hypobaric storage and fruit ripening.

This new edition incorporates studies carried out since the first edition published, as well as including and expanding key areas such as stakeholder perspective and concretion, the role of the experience setting in creating experience, and the connection between co-creation and subjective wellbeing.

This book explores the relationship between tourism, hospitality, protected areas, livelihoods and human wellbeing. It includes sections focused on theory, policy and practice and case studies. It is multi-disciplinary in approach to the study of nature-based tourism and includes collaborative work including SME within protected destinations.

This book is a systematic, comprehensive treatise of bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium, Mycobacterium bovis, which causes it. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide. There is no other book which treats the various aspects of the problem in such a systematic way.

This book explores the central role of ordinary people in the popularisation of faith-based practices, illustrating religious tourism as an expression of cultural identity; the interrelationship of cultural groups; and the overall formation of culture and society.

Focussing on fundamental ecotourism concepts, this broad-based textbook provides a basis for studies into environment-based tourism. It covers key topics such as the management, economics and potential environmental impacts both positive and negative of this popular and growing sector.

There are many initiatives using mobiles, tablets and other devices that have promise to help farmers and improve livelihoods in the developing world. However, the evidence of their effectiveness so far is limited. This book gives practical examples of initiatives and explores theory and data regarding optimising effectiveness.

Designed specifically for student and practitioner veterinary nurses and technicians, this book adopts an enquiry-based approach for gaining essential knowledge and practical understanding necessary to achieve an optimal management of parasitic diseases of dogs and cats.

This book is a compendium of current information on all aspects of cyst nematodes. It provides comprehensive coverage of their biology, management, morphology and diagnostics, in addition to up-to-date information on molecular aspects of taxonomy, host-parasitic relationships and resistances of these economically important parasites.

There are many initiatives using mobiles, tablets and other devices that have promised to help farmers and improve livelihoods in the developing world. However, the evidence of their effectiveness so far is limited. This book gives practical examples of initiatives and explores theory and data regarding optimising effectiveness.

Increasingly, diseases are being identified as major constraints to the productivity and persistence of improved tropical pastures. This book provides a comprehensive review of diseases of tropical pasture legumes and grasses. The book represents a comprehensive, fully referenced sourcebook for plant pathologists and pasture agronomists.