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Ducks are kept for profit in a great diversity of circumstances in both temperate and tropical climates. Outlining the biology of the domestic duck, this book also combines the authors' considerable practical and scientific experience to provide quantitative descriptions of nutritional and environmental effects on growing and breeding ducks.

Disaster management is increasingly important, as effective management can save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses best practice in both developed and developing countries, including planning and preparedness of hospitals, emergency medical services, communication and IT tools for medical disaster response and psychosocial issues.

This book provides a broad discussion of cultural tourism as a concept and the way it is implemented in regions around the world. It addresses the notion of cultural tourism, what it means to the tourism industry, and the different types offered to tourists, as well as including international case studies on specific instances of cultural tourism.

Providing comprehensive coverage on biofuel crop production and the technological, environmental and resource issues associated with a sustainable biofuel industry, this book is ideal for researchers and industry personnel. Chapters focus on the genetics, breeding, cultivation, harvesting and handling of each crop.

Events Management as a subject has been well documented from a practical angle, but this is the first book to cover events from a research perspective. Subjects on consumer behaviour, authenticity and new technologies are included, and the research angle is covered by addressing key concepts, theories and discussions centring on these subjects.

Nautical tourism as an industry has been developing rapidly in scope and economic status and continues to do so. This book provides a timely analysis of nautical tourism in Europe, examining the provision and expansion of nautical tourism in economies at different stages of development.

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, and environmental threats.

This book synthesizes research on these trees, providing a practical guide to their characteristics, cultivation, use, issues, problems and trends. Prominence is given to environmental benefits and the importance of poplar and willow cultivation in meeting the needs of people and communities, sustainable livelihoods, land use and development.

This book provides a research-level review of the current understanding of human microbiomes, functions they bring to the host, how we can model them, their role in health and disease, and exploration methods. It also covers current, hot-topic research in areas such as the long-term effects of antibiotics.

Frameworks are the foundation of good scholarship. They structure, organize and communicate research, underpin individual studies and shape the field of study as a whole. This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic review and critique of frameworks for tourism research.

The management of tropical forest ecosystems is essential to the health of the planet. This book addresses forest insect pest problems across the world's tropics. Fully updated, this second edition also includes discussions of new areas of interest including climate change, invasive species, forest health and plant clinics.

Focusing on priority setting practices used in international research institutes, this book discusses real world experiences with priority assessment methods. Chapters present approaches that have been used to assess impact pathways and research priorities, considers their strengths and weaknesses and draws together methodological lessons.

Comprehensively updated to incorporate major lessons from the 2009/10 pandemic, this accessible new edition includes new contributions from global experts on surveillance, International Health Regulations, clinical management and local health service responses, illustrated with vibrant international case studies.

Biopesticides addresses the challenges of insufficient information and imperfectly understood regulatory processes in using biopesticides. It takes an interdisciplinary approach providing internationally comparative analyses on the registration of biopesticides and debates future biopesticide practices

This book reviews qualitative and quantitative research methods for cultural tourism, including surveys, mystery tourist visits, visitor tracking, collage, researcher-created video, photo-based interviews, ethnographic and actor-network approaches. It provides a guide on how to conduct research, as well as discussion and evaluation of the methods.

This book discusses how the host gaze is constructed, how it has developed, how it varies between countries and how the tourism industry can affect it. Looking at the gazes of both Western and non-Western hosts, this book analyses the dynamics of a host destination and consequences the gaze can have upon the tourist.

This book presents an engaging overview of the behaviour of the domestic cat, adopting both a mechanistic and functional approach. Fully updated throughout, this new edition also includes two new chapters on behavioural disorders due to pathologies and from misdirected natural behaviour.

Taking a global perspective, this book provides a comprehensive yet concise reference for all horticulture students, raspberry growers, producers and fruit industry personnel looking for the latest information in raspberry production.

This book covers recent advances in the management of forest diseases. It discusses a comprehensive range of diseases in detail, and includes the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, as well as forest protection based on integrated pest and disease management approaches.

This book traces the history of garden visitation and examines tourist motivations to visit gardens. Useful for garden managers and tourism students as well as casual readers, it also examines management and marketing of gardens for tourism purposes, before concluding with a detailed look at the form and tourism-based role of gardens in the future.

This major reference work details the taxonomic research into the subfamily Dacinae. Providing complete descriptions and artwork of all species of Dacinae recorded from the south-east Asian region for the first time, this book is written and illustrated by experts with over 80 years' combined research experience.

This book consolidates the research on pests of South and Southeast Asia, it covers the main arthropod pests of twenty five major crops, with colour photographs of their adult and immature stages, their distribution, biology, disease vectors, symptoms of the damage they cause and their natural enemies.

Greenhouse cultivation has expanded in recent decades with increased demand for food production and newly developed technologies to improve processes. This book concentrates on plant production in plastic greenhouse conditions, and covers fertilization, plant protection, current technologies and management practices.

Bridging the gap between developments in biotechnology and its applications in plant improvement, this book provides an integrative overview of issues from basic theories to their applications to crop improvement including molecular marker technology, gene mapping, genetic transformation, quantitative genetics, and breeding methodology.

Insect and other pests cause major economic damage on fruit crops in the tropics. However, some insects are beneficial and have a role in pollinating flowers, thus enabling fruit set. This book reviews these injurious and beneficial organisims and how they might be controlled to enhance fruit production and quality.

Dairy herd health is an important topic in veterinary practice and farming. This book focuses on diseases within herds, husbandry practices, youngstock management and environmental issues. Major diseases and conditions are covered, including mastitis, lameness, nutrition, metabolic and common infectious diseases from a herd health perspective.

Providing a veterinary perspective as well as an ethological one, this book looks at the feline genus as a whole. Focusing on identifying normal behaviour from the cat's perspective, it has a welfare theme running throughout; as normal behaviour provides evidence of good welfare, abnormal behaviour can be an indicator of poor welfare.

This book brings together international experts to examine all aspects of industrial hemp production, including the origins of hemp production, as well as the botany and anatomy, genetics and breeding, quality assessment, regulations, and the agricultural and industrial economics of hemp production.

Taking a practical approach, this book covers the background and concepts underlying efforts to improve maternal and perinatal mortality, the current global situation and problems that prevent progress. It includes case studies and examples of successful strategies, recommends good practices, and provides a critical analysis of knowledge gaps.

Pest risk analysis informs decisions for regulatory plant protection, from domestic activities such as prioritizing pests for surveillance to making quarantine decisions regarding the importation of products. Written by practicing risk analysts, this text provides a solid foundation in pest risk analysis and its application.