Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Guidance for CITES Scientific Authorities
Author: Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 283170684X
Category : Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Use of and trade in wildlife is a fact of life for human society around the globe. Article IV of the CITES Convention requires that exporting countries restrict trade in Appendix II species to levels that are not detrimental either to species? survival, or to their role within the ecosystems in which they occur (known as the ?non-detriment finding?). Based on two workshops convened by IUCN to develop some pragmatic assistance for Scientific Authorities, this publication presents the background to the development of the non-detriment finding checklist and explains how the checklist itself is designed to work, in the hope that Scientific Authority staff will take and develop the parts of the approach that they find useful.
Neglected Crops
Author: J. Esteban Hernández BermejoPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251032176
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
About neglected crops of the American continent. Published in collaboration with the Botanical Garden of Cord�ba (Spain) as part of the Etnobot�nica92 Programme (Andalusia, 1992)
Cassava as Animal Feed
Author: Barry NestelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cassava as feed
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Biofuel Support Policies: An Economic Assessment
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264050116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
This report shows that the high level of policy support contributes little to reduced greenhouse-gas emissions and other policy objectives, while it adds to a range of factors that raise international prices for food commodities.
A Tale of the Dispossessed/La Multitud Errante
Author: Laura RestrepoPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006072370X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.
Environmental Transport Processes
Author: Bruce E. LoganPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118230078
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
A unique approach to the challenges of complex environmental systems Environmental Transport Processes, Second Edition provides much-needed guidance on mass transfer principles in environmental engineering. It focuses on working with uncontrolled conditions involving biological and physical systems, offering examples from diverse fields, including mass transport, kinetics, wastewater treatment, and unit processes. This new edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating modern approaches and practice problems at the end of chapters, making the Second Edition more concise, accessible, and easy to use. The book discusses the fundamentals of transport processes occurring in natural environments, with special emphasis on working at the biological physical interface. It considers transport and kinetics in terms of systems that involve microorganisms, along with in-depth coverage of particles, size spectra, and calculations for particles that can be considered either spheres or fractals. The book's treatment of particles as fractals is especially unique and the Second Edition includes a new section on exoelectrogenic biofilms. It also addresses dispersion in natural and engineered systems unlike any other book on the subject. Readers will learn to tackle with confidence complex environmental systems and make transport calculations in heterogeneous environments with mixtures of chemicals.
Cryopreservation of Tropical Plant Germplasm
Author: Florent EngelmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crops
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Development of cryopreservation techniques. Importance of cryopreservation for the conservation of plant genetic resources. Fundamental aspects of cryopreservation. Cryopreservation techniques. Ongoing cryopreservation projects -- Research and its application. Current status of cryopreservation research and future perspectives of its application in national programmes.
Plant Cryopreservation: A Practical Guide
Author: Barbara B.M. ReedPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387722769
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Cryopreservation has proven to be an important tool for the storage and conservation of plant genetic resources. This book is a unique resource for plant scientists, providing more than 100 ready-to-use cryopreservation protocols for plant types from algae and bryophytes to a range of flowering plants. It includes techniques for diverse plant parts such as dormant buds, pollen, and apical meristems and for cell types such as suspension and callus cultures.
Soil and Sediment Remediation
Author: Piet LensPublisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1843391007
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Soil and Sediment Remediation discusses in detail a whole set of remediative technologies currently available to minimise their impact. Technologies for the treatment of soils and sediments in-situ (landfarming, bioscreens, bioventing, nutrient injection, phytoremediation) and ex-situ (landfarming, bio-heap treatment, soil suspension reactor) will be discussed. The microbiological, process technological and socio-economical aspects of these technologies will be addressed. Special attention will be given to novel biotechnological processes that utilise sulfur cycle conversions, e.g. sulfur and heavy metal removal from soils. Also the potential of phytoremediation will be highlighted. In addition, treatment schemes for the clean-up of polluted megasites, e.g. harbours and Manufactured Gaswork Plants (MGP), will be elaborated. The aim of Soil and Sediment Remediation is to introduce the reader in: the biogeochemical characteristics of soil and sediments- new techniques to study soil/sediment processes (molecular probes, microelectrodes, NMR) clean up technologies for soils polluted with organic (PAH, NAPL, solvents) or inorganic (heavy metals) pollutants- preventative and remediative strategies and technologies available in environmental engineering novel process applications and bioreactor designs for bioremediation the impact of soil pollution on society and its economic importance.
