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La recivilización
El primer libro de uno de los ecólogos con mayor prestigio y visión de futuro que nos da las claves de lo que está por venir. 4.a edición Vivimos en guerra. Unos contra otros. Contra nosotros mismos. Contra la naturaleza. Vivimos borrachos de tecnología y soberbia, en la convicción de que tenemos asegurada la supervivencia. Sin embargo, nunca ha estado tan amenazada como ahora, cuando tocamos fondo como civilización. Cambio climático, pérdida de especies, guerras por el agua y violaciones crecientes de los derechos humanos. Nos esforzamos en comprender esta crisis, aunque al mismo tiempo huimos hacia delante confiando en la tecnología o incluso la negamos por interés o miedo. Si l...
Peasant and Nation
Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics. It reveals the hierarchy and the heroism, the solidarity and the surveillance, the exploitation and the reciprocity, that coexist in popular political struggle. With this book Mallon not only forges a new path for Latin American history but chall...
La salud planetaria
La salud humana, la de las plantas y la de los animales son interdependientes y están ligadas a la salud de los ecosistemas en los que conviven. El ser humano se ha convertido no ya en el responsable sino, paradójicamente, en una de las principales dianas de su relación tóxica con la naturaleza, generando una grave crisis ambiental y una sociedad extremadamente desigual, con problemas psicológicos crecientes y con millones de muertes evitables. Para entender cómo hemos llegado aquí y, sobre todo, cómo podremos sortear esta trágica historia que lleva un inquietante rumbo hacia el colapso, hay que acercarse al mundo de las interacciones complejas, en cuya base se encuentra una biodive...
Earth Observation of Global Change
Global Change is increasingly considered a critical topic in environmental research. Remote sensing methods provide a useful tool to monitor global variables, since they provide a systematic coverage of the Earth’s surface, at different spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions. This book offers an analysis of the leading missions in global Earth observation, and reviews the main fields in which remote sensing methods are providing vital data for global change studies.
Plant Competition in a Changing World
Competitiveness describes a key ability important for plants to grow and survive abiotic and biotic stresses. Under optimal, but particularly under non-optimal conditions, plants compete for resources including nutrients, light, water, space, pollinators and other. Competition occurs above- and belowground. In resource-poor habitats, competition is generally considered to be more pronounced than in resource-rich habitats. Although competition occurs between different players within an ecosystem such as between plants and soil microorganisms, our topic focusses on plant-plant interactions and includes inter-specific competition between different species of similar and different life forms and...
Principles of Soil Chemistry, Fourth Edition
Learn the secrets of soil chemistry and its role in agriculture and the environment. Examine the fundamental laws of soil chemistry, how they affect dissolution, cation and anion exchange, and other reactions. Explore how water can form water-bridges and hydrogen bonding, the most common forces in adsorption, chelation, and more. Discover how electrical charges develop in soils creating electrochemical potentials forcing ions to move into the plant body through barriers such as root membranes, nourishing crops and plants. You can do all this and more with Principles of Soil Chemistry, Fourth Edition. Since the first edition published in 1982, this resource has made a name for itself as a tex...
Microbial Endophytes
Examining intercellular infections in certain plant species that lead to a symbiotic relationship between the host and its endophytic microbes, this volume demonstrates the ability of many types of endosymbionts, acting as a unit with hosts to better survive, compete and reproduce. Practical applications of such endophytes are also discussed, for example, pharmaceutical developments and agricultural management.
Fungal Pathogenesis in Plants and Crops
Dramatic progress in molecular biology and genetic engineering has recently produced an unparalleled wealth of information on the mechanisms of plant and pathogen interactions at the cellular and molecular levels. Completely revised and expanded, Fungal Pathogenesis in Plants and Crops: Molecular Biology and Host Defense Mechanisms, Second Edition
Forests and Global Change
Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The dynamics and distribution of forest vegetation determines the habitat for other organisms, and regulates the delivery of ecosystem services, including carbon storage. Presenting recent research across temperate and tropical ecosystems, this volume synthesises the numerous ways that forests are responding to global change and includes perspectives on: the role of forests in the global carbon and energy budgets; historical patterns of forest change and diversification; contemporary mechanisms of community assembly and implications of underlying drivers of global change; and the ways in which forests supply ecosystem services that support human lives. The chapters represent case studies drawn from the authors' expertise, highlighting exciting new research and providing information that will be valuable to academics, students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in this field.
Handbook of Postharvest Technology
The Handbook of Postharvest Technology presents methods in the manufacture and supply of grains, fruits, vegetables, and spices. It details the physiology, structure, composition, and characteristics of grains and crops. The text covers postharvest technology through processing, handling, drying and milling to storage, packaging, and distribution. Additionally, it examines cooling and preservation techniques used to maintain the quality and the decrease spoilage and withering of agricultural products.
