Sustainable use of energy in greenhouses

Sustainable use of energy in greenhousesGreenhouse crops are continuously under pressure of infestations by a wide range of pests and diseases. This chapter describes the myriad practices that can contribute to managing pests and diseases, and how to integrate these practices in an ecologically based integrated pest management (IPM) approach. The chapter offers a historical perspective on the development of IPM, together with an explanation of its underlying rationale and main challenges.

Applied Theatre returns with a second edition

this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disparate histories

volatile and fragile world

He came to England in 1945 and was adopted but not told about his family

it was burned in the mid sixth century and then abandoned

Examines the extent to which semi-presidentialism has affected the process of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe since the early 1990s

animal and plant life

This chapter looks at the use of farm-level models to assess and mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture

Livingstone explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies

a shift from pharmacologic interventions to disease risk identification and mitigation

This chapter examines the materials commonly used in forming growing substrates and addresses methods and technologies for assessing them

Heritopia creatively investigates the meaning of the past in the present