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This comprehensive volume contains over 250 papers and abstracts across nine key themes presented at the symposium by international experts. It explores weed biology and ecology and the economic impacts, effectiveness and practical implications of weed management strategies.

This textbook provides an overview of types of tourism, and common themes studied in courses to allow undergraduate students to become familiar with a wide range of tourism topics at a foundation level, allowing them to make an informed decision about their future studies and career.

This book discusses responsible tourism as a whole, including the politics, policy and planning behind it, and major sub-topics such as poverty reduction, the environment, transport, governance, wildlife tours and heritage.

Providing a broad and expert coverage of the horticultural production of vegetables grown from seed, this third edition includes coverage of the production of genetically modified crops, organic seed production, packaging, and honey bee population, as well as updated references and further reading.

This book addresses the important issues confronting the rangelands and presents new concepts and approaches for the management of rangeland resources. It is relevant to the people who live in or depend on the rangelands, and to the institutions and organisations that support them.

Drawing on the interplay between farming and research, this popular textbook provides an updated account of the key techniques for manipulating reproduction in farm animals. It places due emphasis on techniques developed or improved over the last decade, covering technologies for cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, buffaloes, camelids, horses and poultry.

Tourism has long been associated with improved health, resulting in a boom of spas, yoga and rejuvenation treatments. Medical Tourism looks at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how medical tourism benefits local health care providers, economies and the tourism industry as a whole.

To survive in today's economies, it is imperative for companies to understand their consumers in terms of how and why they like to use their products. Imagineers use design methods to create meaningful experiences that connect consumers to brands. This book explains the background of the need for experiences and focusses on how to design them.

This book provides an overview of the potential role and challenges of organic agriculture in this global perspective, as seen from different perspectives such as sustainability, food security and fair trade.

Intensely practical and illustrated with real-life examples, this text covers the breadth of health emergency preparedness, resilience and response topics in the context of inter-disciplinary and whole society responses. It includes public, private and third sector roles in preparation for and in response to natural and man-made events.

The book discusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to create contemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation to biodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development.

It contains chapters on all aspects of dairy sheep nutrition and feeding, such as milk production, feed intake, nutrition and reproduction, nutrition and milk quality, and grazing and stocking rate management.

Tourism is the world's fastest growing industry and has global impacts. Development must be sustainable in order to preserve the environment and culture it exploits. This reference work defines terms associated with considering and preserving the environment, host peoples, communities, cultures, customs, lifestyles and social and economic systems.

This book documents the success of an innovative programme in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal. It transformed degraded land into a fertile area where farmers could thrive, bringing in effective cultivation techniques and new crops, with every intervention helping to mitigate climate change and improve farmer resilience to its effects.

This book emphasises the importance of farm-level adaptation in mitigating against the risks of climate change in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. It highlights the key issues that arise in farm-level impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, and discusses the methodological approaches undertaken in Asia and Africa

This book compiles the literature for 23 globally relevant leafy medicinal herbs. Beginning with a general overview and discussion of the importance of these plants, it then handles each herb by chapter.

Plant viruses are formidable foes for cultivated crops in tropical and sub-tropical areas; this book helps readers to understand their versatile interactions with the host and transmission vectors to agricultural production.

This book focusses on the diversity of perspectives, interaction and role of tourism in mountainous areas. It considers the interdisciplinary context of communities, the creation of experiences and the impacts of tourism. With authors from Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America, the development, planning and governance issues are also covered.

This book presents the re-theorisation of travel and transformation, exploring traveller behaviour, how this entwines with experiences and how travel experiences continue on a traveller's return. It uses the notion of transformation to redevelop the temporal and spatial boundaries of travel and look at new methods in the exploration of research.

The book provides an analysis of impacts of climate change on water for agriculture, and the adaptation strategies in water management to deal with these impacts. Chapters include an assessment at global level, with details on impacts in various countries.

Low and middle income countries bear a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases. This book synthesizes evidence across countries that share similar socio-economic, developmental and public health profiles, providing insights on successful and sustainable interventions and policies.

Veterinarians often come into contact with the law in cases of animal cruelty, domestic animal and wildlife crimes, and human crimes with an animal element. This book provides practical training, covering how to operate in a crime scene, work with emergency service personnel, collect evidence, prepare reports and provide evidence in court.

Based on the international conference 'Enhanced Genepool Utilization: Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement', this book addresses all aspects of utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity for crop improvement.

In this book experts explain and discuss the latest biotechnological advances in cereal crop science, including the latest results of gene editing techniques.

This book is designed for those who wish to improve upon past risk practices, make better management decisions and ensure safer operating environments. It includes an explanation of the core underpinning concepts of risk and safety, numerous applied examples and case studies, and explanations of the key legal and regulatory underpinnings.

It is anticipated that the damage to crops and forests by insects will increase as a consequence of climate change. However, the evidence in support of this is sparse. This book sums up present knowledge regarding both agricultural and forest insect pests and climate change in order to identify future research directions.

Following the author's Farm Business Management series, this textbook takes the core principles and techniques and distils them into an accessible student resource. It covers aspects of farm management such as observation, decision making, budgeting, risk assessment and record keeping, and includes student-focused pedagogy throughout.

Covering the applied managerial perspective of the travel industry, this book teaches effective skills by reviewing legal frameworks, quality management and marketing, financial management, and the management of shareholders and stakeholders. It discusses trends such as sustainability and includes a revised structure and international case studies.

Covering the applied managerial perspective of the travel industry, this book teaches effective skills by reviewing legal frameworks, quality management and marketing, financial management, and the management of shareholders and stakeholders. It discusses trends such as sustainability and includes a revised structure and international case studies.

The book covers the background of agricultural development, early agricultural societies, and the advancement of technology from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the present. It finishes by addressing the implications for the future of agriculture and food supply as grain production moves towards biofuels.