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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137410003321

Autore

Stephanie Mansourian

Titolo

Forests and food : addressing hunger and nutrition across sustainable landscapes / edited by Bhaskar Vira e.a

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers

Cambridge, : Open Book Publishers, , 2015

ISBN

1-78374-196-1

2-8218-7611-4

1-78374-195-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p. : ill.)

Soggetti

Food security

Food supply - Environmental aspects

Food supply - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminating global hunger, as well as having long-term ecological consequences. Forests can play an important role in complementing agricultural production to address the Sustainable Development Goals on zero hunger. Forests and trees can be managed to provide better and more nutritionally-balanced diets, greater control over food inputs – particularly during lean seasons and periods of vulnerability (especially for marginalised groups) – and deliver ecosystem services for crop production. However forests are undergoing a rapid process of degradation, a complex process that governments are struggling to reverse. This volume provides important evidence and insights about the potential of forests to reducing global hunger and malnutrition, exploring the different



roles of landscapes, and the governance approaches that are required for the equitable delivery of these benefits. Forests and Food is essential reading for researchers, students, NGOs and government departments responsible for agriculture, forestry, food security and poverty alleviation around the globe.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910695071803321

Autore

Blair M. F.

Titolo

The effects of Reynolds number, rotor incidence angle and surface roughness on the heat transfer distribution in a large-scale turbine rotor passage / / reported by M.F. Blair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Hartford, Connecticut : , : United Technologies Research Center, , November 1991

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 67 pages, 172 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA CR ; ; 184260

Soggetti

Aerodynamics

Gas turbines

Heat transfer

Rotors

Three dimensional flow

Turbine pumps

Turbulence models

Viscous flow

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"November 1991."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (NASA, viewed Sep. 12, 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-57).