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A highly practical book that describes the application of resource allocation theory to improve animal production and wellbeing.

Ecotourism in Scandinavia: Lessons in Theory and Practice is the first book to comprehensively describe, analyse and evaluate aspects of Scandinavian ecotourism and will appeal to researchers and students of ecotourism.

This book brings together all known information on these fascinating groups to form a compendium of existing scientific knowledge for future biological investigation and conservation.

Covering science, management and husbandry systems, this comprehensive text provides the most up to date collection of papers on the topic from a range of international experts.

Addressing the issues of even greater climate extremes in the future, this book discusses both new approaches and past successes and failures in order to provide the necessary insight to develop sustainable rangeland management strategies, drawing on regional case studies and lessons learned from Australia, Canada and the USA.

This book explores river tourism from a range of perspectives including uses, heritage, management, environmental concerns, and marketing.

Nutrition Promotion sets nutrition education firmly in a public health context and provides practical applications in a variety of settings and age groups. It draws on international research and theory, and includes international case studies and examples.

The book includes the most recent national leisure participation surveys from 15 countries, increased coverage of time-budget surveys and new themes such as public policy dimensions. It also examines the methodological problems and challenges of conducting national surveys in the field, and their future prospects.

This book provides an overview of the phenomenon of volunteer tourism, its sources and its development as a concept; A focus on the potential positive social and environmental benefits of volunteer tourism, and the prerequisites for a successful experience.

The Next Rural Economies debates the future of rural development and highlights successes and failures to inform research, policy and community action.

Discussing how and why particular options are selected, and why a particular course of events eventually prevails, the book stresses the importance of context and a multidisciplinary approach in moving towards sustainable and equitable development.

Using case studies from Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Madagascar, this book examines strategic objectives for tourism growth and how nationally-set objectives such as economic growth, employment, poverty reduction, black economic empowerment, environmental sustainability and reduction of regional inequalities work at the grassroots level.

Focusing on insect pests of tree fruits and combining behavioural research with crop protection applications, this book emphasizes environmentally sustainable approaches in an agroecosystem. It discusses IPM, functional and behavioural ecology of pests, host detection mechanisms and monitoring tool development, as well as including case studies.

This book critically reviews experience worldwide of these issues. Emphasis is placed on untreated wastewater use by means of field-based case studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. It brings together a range of perspectives including economic, health, agronomic, environmental, institutional, and policy dimensions.

Drawing on the author's considerable experience in both teaching and research, this textbook describes the basic principles underlying animal behavior and how those concepts can be used in managing the care of animals, covering four key themes: development of behavior, biological rhythms, social behavior and behavioral aspects of animal management.

Based on research conducted in European countries, this book provides an account of the current state of OLPs, enabling a better understanding of their characteristics and evolution in the agri-food system.

Through an examination of the national, regional and global context of CWR, these authoritative studies present methodologies and case studies that review and provide recommendations for global conservation and use.

Over 100 chapters from international contributors make this book the most comprehensive reference work in describing both the positive and negative effects and actions of Vitamin E.

This book shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalized legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be more able to reach their goals.

Interest in ecotourism in Scandinavia has seen recent growth. Extended forests, rivers, and lakes allow for a great variety of nature-based activities, such as hiking, mushroom collecting, kayaking, snow mobiling and bird watching, making Scandinavia a unique region from a nature-based tourism perspective. EEcotourism in Scandinavia:...

This book examines Polar tourism in its environmental, economic and cultural settings and explores the potential for growth as well as essential management for sustainability.

This fully revised, expanded and updated edition relates the production and utilization of these familiar and important vegetable crops to the many aspects of plant science underpinning their production and storage technologies.

Sustainable and integrated regeneration in the context of culture and tourism is explored for the first time within this book. The text is enhanced by international case studies.

Representing the first discussion of the chemical properties of a wide cross section of important spices, this book covers extensively the three broad categories of plant-derived natural products: the terpenoids, the alkaloids and the phenyl propanoids and allied phenolic compounds.

Plant Genotyping II: SNP Technology describes some of the import recent developments in this field, with the main focus on SNPs. Contributions cover the discovery, analysis and uses of SNPs, while also examining other approaches to plant genotyping.

This book takes an in-depth look at the successes and failures of tourism a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic inequalities in poor countries, and considers why tourism as a catalyst for economic development can be a controversial device.

Written for senior undergraduate and graduate students, Animal Nutrition Science introduces the fundamental topics of animal nutrition, in a treatment which deals with terrestrial animals in general.

Presenting a detailed and comprehensive account of the roles of specific peptides in energy balance, food intake control and co-morbidities, this review provides a better understanding of the patho-physiology of energy balance and obesity.

Using case studies from Asia and Africa, this book discusses rainfed and irrigated agriculture, catchment/micro-watershed management approaches, upgrades in science-based development and more investment in rainfed areas. It covers rainwater harvesting, rehabilitation of land and social, environmental and economic impact assessment.

Nematodes are the most wide spread multicellular animals in Nature and analysis of nematodes in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments as well as their role and function in ecosystems can be used for environmental monitoring. Classical and molecular approaches to nematode community analysis will be addressed and the contemporary...