10 Reunion Regional, Cordoba, Argentina Septiembre 17-21, 2001
Author : Juan José Claría
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN :
Cactus (Opuntia Spp.) as Forage
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251047057
Book Description
Opuntias are multipurpose plants that are increasingly being used in agricultural systems in arid and semi-arid areas. Due to its high water-use efficiency, it is particularly useful as forage in times of drought and in areas where few other crops can grow, and it is now considered a key component for the productivity and sustainability of these regions. This publication presents current scientific and practical information on the use of the cactus Opuntia as forage for livestock.
Crop ecology, cultivation and uses of cactus pear
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9251098603
Book Description
Cactus plants are precious natural resources that provide nutritious food for people and livestock, especially in dryland areas. Originally published in 1995, this extensively revised edition provides fresh insights into the cactus plant’s genetic resources, physiological traits, soil preferences and vulnerability to pests. It provides invaluable guidance on managing the resource to support food security and offers tips on how to exploit the plant’s culinary qualities.
Latin America in Times of Global Environmental Change
Author : Cristian Lorenzo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030242544
Book Description
This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics. Written by leading experts, this book brings together Latin American research on global environmental change. They cover a range of topics such as climate change, water, forest and biodiversity conservation connected with science policies, public opinion, priorities of international funds, and international politics of Latin American countries. The book describes the discrepancy between the international priorities and the regional needs or country interests. It includes several case studies and analyses the cooperation in multilateral negotiations on climate change. It also offers a synthesis of debates around global environmental changes and Latin American politics, which the authors have previously promoted in different academic events in South America, including in Santiago de Chile in Chile, and Buenos Aires and Ushuaia in Argentina. This book assesses the environmental problems from different perspectives, highlights the scientific development in the environmental changes affecting Latin America and offers a new view on geopolitics to help face those issues. Specialist readers in international relations, political sciences, environmental sciences, geography and geopolitics will appreciate this up-to-date examination of Latin America and the global environmental change.
Buildings for Education
Author : Stefano Della Torre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030336875
Book Description
This open access book presents theoretical and practical research relating to the vast, publicly financed program for the construction of new schools and the reorganization of existing educational buildings in Italy. This transformative process aims to give old buildings a fresh identity, to ensure that facilities are compliant with the new educational and teaching models, and to improve both energy efficiency and structural safety with respect to seismic activity. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the social role of the school as a civic building that can serve the needs of the community. Innovations in both design and construction processes are then analyzed, paying special attention to the Building Information Modeling (BIM) strategy as a tool for the integration of different disciplines. The final section is devoted to the built heritage and tools, technologies, and approaches for the upgrading of existing buildings so that they meet the new regulations on building performance. The book will be of interest to all who wish to learn about the latest insights into the challenges posed by, and the opportunities afforded by, a comprehensive school building and renovation program.
Red October
Author : Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004205586
Book Description
Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales’ successful bid to become the country’s first indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle, state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical roots of today’s oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left over the last decade.
Fictions of the Bad Life
Author : Claire Solomon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814212479
Book Description
Placing the prostitute at the center of reading, Fictions of Bad Life moves between text and meta-text, exploring how to rescue the prostitute from her imprisonment and turn her into the subject of history.
Communicating Science
Author : Toss Gascoigne
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1760463663
Book Description
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told.
Workers Like All the Rest of Them
Author : Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478013952
Book Description
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison recounts the long struggle for domestic workers' recognition and rights in Chile across the twentieth century, revealing how and under what conditions they mobilized for change.
The Indigenous World 2015
Author : Diana Vinding
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9788792786524
Book Description
2015 will be a year of important negotiations and agreements on climate change and sustainable development--two topics of great importance for indigenous peoples and to which indigenous peoples have a lot to contribute. Seven years after the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in light of the outcomes of the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, this edition of The Indigenous World looks at the most significant developments and/or setbacks for indigenous peoples' rights at the national and international level in the past year and at possible ways forward. In over seventy articles and country reports, The Indigenous World 2015 provides a comprehensive update on the current situation of indigenous peoples and their human rights and reports on the most important developments in international processes of relevance to indigenous peoples during 2014. It is an indispensable tool about issues and developments that have impacted indigenous peoples worldwide. Indigenous and non-indigenous scholars or activists write the articles contained in The Indigenous World 2015. It is edited and produced by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
