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New features include the rearrangement of topics to facilitate use, and 44 short succinct chapters, each providing valuable and practical information.

This second edition reflects many recent advances, bringing together all new chapters and over 30 contributors.

The book addresses current issues and initiatives, and defines research needs. Key global issues and addressed is in general articles, while specific regional topics are described and highlighted within each chapter in shorter case studies.

This book reviews research findings, results from on-the-ground programmes, and policy experiences over the past 10 years. It examines the direct and indirect effects of agriculture on nutrition, from biodiversity and crop fortification to programme evaluation and the impact of agricultural policies on consumers' choices and actions.

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize emotions, thereby guiding behavior and allowing emotional adjustment to environments. As services are produced and consumed simultaneously, the employee EI is vital. This book uses a skills-based approach to explain how emotional intelligence can be developed in tourism and hospitality.

This book is the first to provide a detailed analysis of private sector involvement and partnerships in tourism in Africa. It includes best practices and processes to develop tourism partnerships with the private sector, and highlights important tools to enhance sustainability of tourism in Africa, involving numerous stakeholders.

Islamic tourism is an increasingly important market sector. This book provides practical applications, models and illustrations of religious tourism and pilgrimage management from a variety of international perspectives, supported by case studies.

This book contains current knowledge and up-to-date developments in the field of halophyte biology, ecology and potential uses. It explores the adaptive mechanisms of halophytes that allow them to grow in environments unsuitable for conventional crops and considers their role as a source of food, fuel, fodder, fibre, essential oils and medicines.

This book reviews the environmental risks of pesticides and their mixtures, their method of estimation and assessment, and their regulation. Beginning with an overview of pesticide toxicity and risk assessment, it covers historical background, environmental impact, methodology, diagnostic and assessment tools, and legislation.

This book examines both how agriculture and rural issues can cause crisis and conflict, and what the effects of crisis and conflict, including violence and natural disasters, are on agriculture. Case studies examine a wide range of crises and conflicts, primarily in developing countries, and appropriate responses to mitigate their effects.

This book contains the proceedings from the 11th International Veterinary Behaviour Meeting. Keynote presentations cover topics such as reducing anxiety, reducing tension between household cats, researching animal welfare and making animal welfare sustainable.

The first volume in the CABI Climate Change Series, this book provides an overview of the essential disciplines required for sustainable crop production in unpredictable environments.

Fully updated with new content and full-colour figures throughout, the second edition of this successful book provides comprehensive coverage of pineapple breeding, production and yield. It includes essential content from botany through to postharvest handling and provides the technical information required to all those working with the crop.

Completely updated and revised, this new edition now also addresses how to formulate organic diets in situations where there is a declining supply of organic feed, as well as the feasibility of utilizing novel feedstuffs, such as insect meal, and their acceptability by consumers of organic meat products.

The Asia-Pacific region is considered the world's religious core with the greatest number of pilgrims and travellers for religious events, for both international and domestic tourism. This book reviews tourism and sacred sites within Asia, including practical case study examples from across the region.

Completely updated and revised, this new edition continues to provide an introductory level text for all interested in beef and dairy cattle production systems. It presents a vision for a cattle industry that contributes to the environment, to the welfare of cattle and to the provision of safe and high quality food.

This book examines direct effects to human health from invasive species such as bites, wounds and illness and indirect effects via changes induced in the ecosystems. It covers case studies from different taxa (animals and plants) and in developed and developing countries.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the large number of diseases, disorders and injuries that can cause severe economic losses to banana, plantain, abaca and enset crops, and the fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and abiotic factors involved. Most are described and illustrated in colour, creating a valuable diagnostic tool.

This book explores the most important aspects of the biology, ecology and management of "the world's worst weed". Covering its mode of spread and its impact upon agricultural production, the environment and human health, it also reviews management techniques, the possible uses of Parthenium weed, its distribution and the impact of climate change.

The book reflects research conducted by observing natural behaviour, by investigating form-function relationships, physiology, metabolism and genetic make-up, and by offering choices of feed and environment.

Based on ISNAR seminars, this book provides information and case studies distilling information on policies for development and implementation of new agricultural biotechnologies. It covers key managerial and policy issues that research directors, program managers and policymakers face when building capacity and competency in biotechnology.

The primary function of this book is to introduce basic modelling skills and to show how even complex problems in the relationship between soil and the biosphere can be solved using modelling packages. The author presents numerous examples using ModelMaker, an easily learnt software package.

This book provides a broad review of current thinking on agrobiodiversity - what it is, how it is conserved, and how it can be better utilized in sustainable farming. It brings together contributions from a wide geographical and disciplinary background.

This book provides comparative and contrasting analyses of the changing characteristics of the countryside within the developed countryside of the UK, USA and Canada. An exploration of the issues of continuity and change associated with the operation of demographic, socio-economic and political processes as they impact upon the countryside.

The main themes of the book are methods of feed evaluation, current feeding systems, and mechanistic mathematical modelling. No other title brings together methods, systems and models under one cover.

This book covers antioxidants and their mechanisms of action; their role in a whole array of conditions including coronary heart disease, malignant disease, diabetes, cataracts, respiratory disease, cystic fibrosis, cognitive functions, and aging; their indicators for oxidative stress; and consumer issues.

This book examines these issues and looks at what would happen if Japan were to utilise this resource within the next two decades, from both a domestic and international point of view.

The book describes the natural history of myxoma virus in American rabbits and the history of its introduction into European rabbits at length.

This book is a valuable reference source for forest policy practitioners, students of forestry and political economy and industrial decision-makers seeking to position their business in global forestry.

This book has been developed from an IUFRO meeting in Washington State, USA in July 1997 and describes the latest achievements and challenges in tree ring research from around the world.