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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 27
Title:
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 27
Author:
Lichtfouse, Eric. editor.
ISBN:
9783319751900
Physical Description:
VII, 302 p. 78 illus., 61 illus. in color. online resource.
Series:
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 27
Contents:
Chapter 01: Water quality impacts on agricultural productivity and environment. - Chapter 02: Agro-ecosystem diversity in petroleum and natural gas explored sites in Assam State, North-Eastern India: socio-economic perspectives -- Chapter 03: Pest management in stored products: the case of the cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) -- Chapter 04: Floriculture Sustainability Initiative: The Dawn of New Era -- Chapter 05: Ozone toxicity and remediation in crop plants -- Chapter 06: Amaranth and millet in the context of “silent hunger” and food distribution -- Chapter 07: Impact of Cyclodextrin in Drug Delivery System: Current Status and Future Perspective -- Chapter 08: Sustainable agriculture in the Republic of Korea -- Chapter 09: Crop productivity in changing climate -- Chapter 10: In vitro propagation of ornamentals for Maximising livelihood security.
Abstract:
This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.
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