Primärindustri

Scentwork for Horses is the first practical guide on how to implement scentwork into the lives of domesticated horses, enhancing behaviour, welfare, and the human-animal bond. Scentwork is a new discipline in the field for horse and handler, and e...

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JORD- & SKOGSBRUK ger dig mängder av tips och råd om hur du kan utnyttja de möjligheter skattereglerna ger för att få ut mer av ditt jordbruk eller skogsbruk. Boken är en perfekt handbok för dig som äger eller arrenderar ett jordbruk eller ett sko...

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What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees,...

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Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-syst...

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Contortatallen var det träd som kanske ofta fick stå som symbol för det ensidiga, produktionsinriktade och högavkastande skogsbruket för ett par årtionden sedan. En av de ivrigaste förespråkarna för detta var skogsvårdschefen vid SCA, Stig Hagner....

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How to Raise a Puppy moves away from the traditional approach to raising puppies, focused on obedience and control, and instead takes an holistic, dog-centred approach. Drawing on research into how dogs naturally rear their young, and how dogs hav...

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Den svenska skogen är ett ekosystem där mer än 25 000 arter har sin he mvist. Mer än 2 000 av dem är hotade eller missgynnade. Samtidigt som de flesta är överens om vikten av en bevarad biologisk mångfald, är be varandeinsatser ofta resurskrävande...

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Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services. Ecosystem services is one of the most powerful guiding principles for ecology, biodiversity conservation and the man...

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What is the true cause of inflation, wealth inequality, and our collective disregard for ecological accountability? In The Natural Order of Money, author and entrepreneur Roy Sebag expertly explores the intrinsic relationship between people, money...

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Compiles the recent agricultural-biocatalysis research results by interdisciplinary teams from international institutes for chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, and materials and chemical engineering, Investigates important agricultural-biocata...

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Around the globe most people get their calories from "annual" agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed....

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Discusses alternative analgesic techniques - acupuncture, chiropractic, rehab. Covers anesthesia and sedation for the donkey/mule and miniature horse. includes over 400 colour illustrations and tables

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'A must-read for anyone interested in food and the future' Yotam Ottolenghi Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world, top New York chef Dan Barber's The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that w...

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For thousands of years we have grown, cooked and traded food, and over that time much has changed. Where once we subsisted on gritty, bland grains, we now enjoy culinary creations and epicurean delights made with vegetables from the New World, fis...

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Det mest föraktade, misskötta och nedvärderade politikområdet i Sverige de senaste hundra åren är Jordbruket, vår lokala livsmedelsförsörjning.Efter den globala livsmedelskrisen i början av 1970-talet, som blev helt bortglömd i 1990 års avreglerin...

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-Written by the authors of key spatial R packages -Makes spatial data analysis more robust -Integrates with the tidyverse and comparable approaches -Includes many easily reproducible examples

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The market-leading textbook on this topic, the first edition was groundbreaking in the field and subsequent updates have maintained this as the definite work on Agroecology. A Companion Website offers the entire contents of the updated practical m...

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Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems. Hence, learning can best be achieved through an experiential approach to the topic. Designed to accompany Agr...

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From the large corporation using enormous machines in the USA, to the woman with her hoe and her plot of cassava in Mozambique, to a Chinese collective farm worker in the rice fields, agriculture is essential for humanity to eat. This book looks a...

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Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expose of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, and the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the ...

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This volume provides individual treatments of the major molluscan taxa. Each chapter provides an overview of the evolution, phylogeny and classification of a group of molluscs, as well as more specific and detailed coverage of their biology (repro...

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Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry diseases, while many non-marine molluscs are threatened by human impact...

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Caribbean coral reefs have unique species, are the world's second largest coral reef community, and the most threatened. This book will be of major interest to all concerned with saving coral reefs from extinction. No other book available shows Ca...

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The soil is more than just a substrate that anchors crops in place. An ecologically balanced soil system is essential for maintaining healthy crops. 'Hands-On Agronomy' is a comprehensive manual on effective soil management. The function of micron...

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Den bondekooperativa rörelsen är ett vittförgrenat träd med sina rötter djupt ned i den svenska myllan - den fackliga grenen som med tiden blev en maktfaktor i svensk politik och den ekonomiska som har blivit en viktig del i svenskt näringsliv. De...

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What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, ...

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There are different methods of raising poultry, and every poultry farmer has theirs. However, while some farmers make a delicious profit every year, others wonder why they can't seem to breakeven. It's even more heartbreaking when your poultry app...

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Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusin...

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Wood Chemistry, Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition , examines the basic principles of wood chemistry and its potential applications to pulping and papermaking, wood and wood waste utilization, pulping by-products for production of chemi...

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This incisive book addresses the challenges facing the current institutional framework for governance of high seas fisheries. Marcus Haward identifies significant issues and difficulties affecting the management of fisheries in areas beyond nation...

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