Agriculture category: 3369 books
Strengthening Carbon Financing for Grassland Management in the People's Republic of China
Potential Carbon Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Carbon emissions trading markets are one of the main policy mechanisms of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Grasslands cover 40% of the PRC's land area, and these contain large amounts of carbon. Restoration and sustainable management of these...
Improving Rice Production and Commercialization in Cambodia
Findings from a Farm Investment Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Cambodia has a potential advantage in agricultural production due to significant amounts of fertile land and high levels of agricultural employment, but rice production and commercialization remain well below potential. This study uses a farm investment climate assessment to provide evidence on key...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In spite of substantial investment by the Government of India, the country's irrigation and drainage sector finds itself plagued with numerous concerns. The current productivity and efficiency levels, as well as economic returns, are all lower than expected. In light of the growing stress on natural...
When Money Grew on Trees
A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the...
The Great Climate Robbery
How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In The Great Climate Robbery highly respected non-profit Grain connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples' struggles over food to climate change.The collected articles in this book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations...
by Scott J. Lawson, Daniel R. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Located within the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range, the forests of Plumas County were once seen as a source of endless timber. Lumber was needed during the Gold Rush for water flumes, mine timbers, and an array of buildings. While timber was abundant, the abilities of the early settlers to harvest,...
by Ian Smillie
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world’s largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector. But behind the sparkle of the diamond lies a murkier story, in which rebel armies...
by Western Sonoma County Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The Gravenstein apple has been etched into the identity of Sebastopol, California, which is one of the few places on earth to have extensively grown this elusive apple. The Gravenstein is an early apple whose only failing is perishability, but it is celebrated for its superior flavor. Yet Luther Burbank...
Governing Urban Sustainability
Comparing Cities in the USA and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainability-minded groups-may be critical to building momentum for sustainability. The book presents in-depth case studies of six cities in the USA and Germany:...
Logging in Mason County
1946-1985
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In 1946, the US Forest Service and Simpson Logging Company agreed to a sustained yield unit, cooperatively managing lands for 100 years for "community stability." Championed by USFS chief William Greeley and dubbed the "Sustained Steal" by detractors, the Shelton Cooperative Sustained Yield Unit nonetheless...
Wine Positioning
A Handbook with 30 Case Studies of Wine Brands and Wine Regions in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book introduces readers to the concept and implementation of positioning techniques in the context of the wine industry. Featuring 30 case studies on brands and wine regions around the world - all based on the same principles - it presents a successful, cutting-edge strategy for the marketing...
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet
Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after...
The Legacy of John Waldie and Sons
A History of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant who came to Wellington Square (now Burlington, Ontario) in 1842, he rose to prominence as a wealthy...
Country Grit
A Farmoir of Finding Purpose and Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In this memoir filled with heart, hope and “abundant humor” a wife and husband give up their suburban existence and buy a farm in Oregon (The Oregonian).
Scottie Jones was living a comfortable suburban life in Arizona until her husband, Greg, got into a near-fatal car accident. While recovering,...