Wageningen Academic Publishers imprint: 38 books
Knowledge in Action
The search for collaborative research for sustainable landscape development
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Wageningen Univerisity and Research Centre is known for its practical and societally relevant research in spatial development. Stakeholders currently put much emphasis on participatory processes in landscape planning procedures. This poses a special challenge for research. What role does research...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Hair is a major component of the body's tissue system that contributes to the individual's make up and confers a large degree of personal identity. Apart from its visible façade, hair also has a functional role. It has an unique structure and complex molecular development. The very nature of hair...
Climate change and sustainable development
Ethical perspectives on land use and food production
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings together a multidisciplinary...
Forest People Interfaces
understanding community forestry and biocultural diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This book aims at both academics and professionals in the field of forest-people interfaces. It takes the reader on a journey through four major themes that have emerged since the initiation of 'social forestry' in the 1970s: non-timber forest products and agroforestry; community-based natural resource...
The orange juice business
A Brazilian perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
The orange juice chain is unique, probably a sui generis commodity. Although several countries produce oranges and juices, two regions in the world are the responsible for around 80% of the production. These are the states of Sao Paulo in Brazil and Florida in the USA. Although the emerging countries...
Transformation and Sustainability in Agriculture
Connecting Practice with Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Public pressure and societal changes induce interventions and policies, which aim to transform agriculture and food provision. This book shows that for upscaling novel practices and organizational models it is important to include meso-level regime aspects in analysis and practice. The argument presented...
Food and Fuel
The example of Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
This book is a contribution of the authors to the food - fuel debate. During 2007 and 2008 several factors led to the food inflation problem: growing population, income distribution, urbanization, biofuel, social programs, production scarcity etc.. Biofuel got most of the blame for food inflation...
Expedition Agroparks
Research by Design into Sustainable Development and Agriculture in the Network Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This book is the result of several years of expedition into the development of metropolitan FoodClusters. The author's fascination for the agricultural landscapes in and around metropolises led him to the conclusion that improving the efficiency of agriculture is the most effective way to safeguard...
Unlocking markets to smallholders
Lessons from South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their...
Sacred Science?
On science and its interrelations with religious worldviews
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Science and religion are often viewed as dichotomies. But although our contemporary society is often perceived as a rationalization process, we still need broad, metaphysical beliefs outside of what can be proven empirically. Rituals and symbols remain at the core of modern life. Do our concepts of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
This book, 'Fibre production in South American camelids and other fibre animals', covers the latest advances in the main fields of animals producing fibre. It deals with a wide scope of fibre animals and a great variety of subjects and is supported by the Animal Fibre Working Group belonging to the...
by Ajuruchukwu Obi
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
The Southern Africa region has experienced more than its fair share of problems in recent years. Just when it seemed that the hardships wrought by the devastating cycle of droughts and floods of 2000 to 2002 were a thing of the past, other problems emerged. At one level, there have been the weak and...
New Perspectives on Economic Development
A Human Agency Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This book is the first of its kind to use Austrian subjectivism to analyze issues in economic development. Unlike scholars in mainstream neoclassical economics who explain economic development by quantitative growth models, this book attempts to understand economic progress in human agency perspective....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
In 'The arena of everyday life' nine authors look back and forward at developments in the sociology of consumers and households. Nine chapters show variety in the employed methods, from multivariate analyses of survey data to classical essays. The contributions are organised around four themes. In...