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Focusing on the creation and distribution of packaged holidays, this text covers the fundamentals of business and the relationship between tour operators and destinations. With particular reference to sustainability, it provides a wealth of information regarding eco, nature and adventure trips, as well as niche and special interest products.

This book provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of research and applications of IPM in tropical regions. It explores the agro-ecological framework of IPM and emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods central to pest control, and by a crop-based approach details IPM applications in tropical food crops, fibre crops and forests.

This book addresses indigenous knowledge's (IK) potential in solving issues such as coping with change, ensuring global food supply, reversing environmental degradation and promoting sustainable practices. It draws together strands of biocultural diversity research into natural resources management, providing an overview of conceptual issues.

This second edition has been completely updated, addressing how to formulate organic diets as well as the feasibility of using novel feedstuffs and their acceptability by consumers. It includes international standards of organic feeding, feed-related disease in organic herds, and producers' experiences of appropriate breeds and production systems.

This practical, full-colour book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the commercial production of blackberries and their hybrids. It covers growth and development, cultivar description and selection, propagation, pruning, soil and water management, postharvest management, economics, marketing, and pest identification and management.

Illustrated with over 1000 color images, this is a comprehensive single resource to identifying diseases in dairy cattle, feedlot cattle and their calves. With summary key features, it correlates clinical information with pathology and differential diagnoses, covering naked-eye macroscopic appearance, microscopic pathology and immunohistochemistry.

Capacity building is an important concept in development - this book pulls together theoretical and applied approaches and explains how sustainable outcomes can be achieved for a range of examples.

This book explores how rural gender relations are changing in a globalized world. It analyses their development in specific places and the effects of the increasing connectedness and mobility of people. It integrates global experiences by discussing mobility, agriculture, gender identities and international development.

Invasive alien plants pose a major threat to agriculture, the natural environment and livelihoods worldwide and create challenges for development. This book emphasizes the social and economic implications of plant invasion and discusses direct impacts on livelihoods and biodiversity.

Tourism, hospitality and event managers seek to provide 'wow' experiences to their visitors through better design and management. This book encourages the discussion of different facets of experience design such as emotions, attentions, sensations, learning, the process of co-creation and experiential stimuli design.

Contemporary and thought provoking, this book provides a definition of the concept of One Welfare: the interconnection between animal welfare, human wellbeing and the environment. The book defines the concept and establish a conceptual framework with nine proposed elements within three different themes.

The first book to provide a general introductory overview of the scientific principles underlying production of all three crops. This is a broad-based text for students of agriculture, horticulture and food science, as well as professionals seeking an overview of the topic.

This paperback reprint of a successful book offers knowledge for the management of irrigation and drainage systems, including traditional technical areas of systems operation and maintenance, and expanding managerial, institutional and organizational aspects. Chapters provide guidelines to improve management, operation and maintenance processes.

Livestock housing is a major determinant of animal health, welfare and productivity. This book presents the important principles and processes by which housing influences these outcomes, and shows how an understanding of these can be translated into specifications for housing designs.

This work discusses the Colletotrichum including their biology, pathology and control mechanisms.

The last volume in this acclaimed series on the advancement of veterinary science.

This book provides a comprehensive review of cherries, and many more. It covers all aspects of the botany, production and uses of sweet and sour cherries, and represents a definitive reference work for students and research workers in horticulture as well as professional fruit growers

An up-to-date, comprehensive reference for pest management in organic systems, including practical advice, tables and diagrams. Introductory chapters explore the management of crops to prevent outbreaks, plant protection tools, natural enemies and pest control. Crop-based chapters discuss geographic distribution, economic importance and key pests.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of almond growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing and industrial uses. Authored by an international team of experts and in full colour, it also presents genetics, breeding, propagation, nutrition, marketing and utilization.

This is a study of Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes.

This new edition, with more than 21,000 entries, provides the most complete listing available of generic names of fungi, their families and orders, their attributes and descriptive terms.

Sustainable Animal Agriculture covers practical topics such as air quality, manure management, animal feeds, production efficiency, environmental sustainability, biotechnology issues, animal welfare concerns, societal impacts and an analysis of the data used to assess the economic sustainability of farms.

The book covers conservation agriculture (CA) across Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Europe and emerging destinations in Asia and Africa. Topics covered include the components of CA, and how their individual and combined implementation influences productivity, soil health and environmental quality under different conditions.

The emphasis of the book is on methods of assessment and on application techniques to particular categories of crops. Written by leading authorities from Europe and North America, the book provides detailed reviews of relevant topics.

This book deals with the underlying principles of acarology.

Nematodes are major pests of a number of temperate crops and can cause significant economic losses to farmers. This book provides a comprehensive account of such parasites, with chapters focusing on nematode pests of the main crops of importance in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.

This book is a product of the international VIDE project, which uses the DELTA database system to collect diagnostic information on all plant viruses. The book covers more than 900 viruses, which represents the entire database of plant viruses from around the world.

Nutrition-sensitive, food-based approaches towards hunger and malnutrition are effective, sustainable and long-term solutions. Discussing the policy, strategic, methodological, technical and programmatic issues associated with such approaches, this book also provides practical lessons for advancing nutrition-sensitive, food-based approaches.

This book reviews up-to-date literature on camel meat and meat products, carcass and meat quality characteristics, muscle structure, post-mortem analysis and the nutritive value to humans. A comparatively small component of global meat consumption, camel meat has the potential to undergo an explosion of production worldwide.

This book provides a detailed reference book on the subject and covers its historical development, relevant equine physiology, current practices and future possibilities. It is extensively referenced to allow further reading into specialised areas.