1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456954903321

Titolo

GIS applications in agriculture . Volume two Nutrient management for energy efficiency / / edited by David E. Clay, John F. Shanahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-14541-1

1-4200-9271-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

GIS applications in agriculture

Altri autori (Persone)

ClayDavid (David E.)

ShanahanJohn Francis <1955->

Disciplina

631.8/1

Soggetti

Agriculture - Remote sensing

Geographic information systems

Agricultural mapping

Agriculture - Data processing

Plants - Nutrition

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Series Preface; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Energy and Climate Implications for Agricultural Nutrient Use Efficiency; Chapter 2: Nutrient Management for Improved Energy Efficiency; Chapter 3: Using Precision Farming to Overcome Yield-Limiting Factors in Southern Brazil Oxisols: A Case Study; Chapter 4: Collecting and Analyzing Soil Spatial Information Using Kriging and Inverse Distance; Chapter 5: Integration of USDA-NRCS Web Soil Survey and Site Collected Data

Chapter 6: Space, Time, Remote Sensing, and Optimal Nitrogen Fertilization Rates: A Fuzzy Logic ApproachChapter 7: Digital Northern Great Plains and Zone Mapping Application for Precision Agriculture; Chapter 8: Spatial Variability of Field Machinery Use and Efficiency ; Chapter 9: Precision Manure Application Requirements; Chapter 10: Case Study for Improving Nutrient Management Efficiency by Optimizing the Plant Population; Chapter 11: Soil Water Status Maps for Variable Rate Irrigation



Chapter 12: Maximizing Nutrient Efficiency through the Adoption of Management Practices That Maintain Soil Organic Carbon: CalcChapter 13: Predictive Mapping of Soil Organic Carbon: A Case Study Using Geographically Weighted Regression Approach; Chapter 14: Tillage and Crop Residue Effects on Soil Carbon Turnover Using the Michaelis-Menten Approach; Chapter 15: Geospatial Management of Andean Technology by the Inca Empire; Chapter 16: Calculating Energy Efficiency of Applying Fresh and Composted Manure to Soil

Chapter 17: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) Fluxes from Soil in a PastureChapter 18: Improved Nitrogen and Energy-Use Efficiency Using NIR-Estimated Soil Organic Carbon and N Simulation Modeling; Chapter 19: Computing Wheat Nitrogen Requirements from Grain Yield and Protein Maps; Chapter 20: Review of Low- and High-Technology Nitrogen Management Approaches for Improved Nitrogen Use Efficiency; Chapter 21: Use of GIS-Based Site-Specific Nitrogen Management for Improving Energy Efficiency; Chapter 22: Geographic Information and the Management of Animal Manure

Chapter 23: Spatial Ramifications of Crop Selection: Water Quality and Biomass EnergyChapter 24: Estimating Soil Productivity and Energy Efficiency Using the USDA Web Soil Survey, Soil Productivity Index Calculat; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

We are entering a new era in production agronomics. Agricultural scientists the world over call for the development of techniques that simultaneously increase soil carbon storage and reduce agriculture's energy use. In response, site-specific or precision agriculture has become the focus and direction for the three motivating forces that are changing agriculture today: the expanding capacity of personal computers, the molecular biology revolution, and the recent developments in information technology such as the increasing use of geographical information systems (GIS).Using ma



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494571003321

Autore

Tatum Dillon Stone

Titolo

Liberalism and transformation : the global politics of violence and intervention / / Dillon Stone Tatum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-472-90249-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 197 pages)

Disciplina

320.5109

Soggetti

Liberalism - History

Violence - History

World politics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197)

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Introduction: Liberalism and Violence -- Chapter Two: The How of Emancipatory Liberalism -- Chapter Three: Transformation and Civilization: Liberalism, Empire, Intervention -- Chapter Four: Transformation and Self-Determination: Internationalists at War -- Chapter Five: Transformation and Totalitarianism: Intervention and Cold War Liberalism -- Chapter Six: Transformation and Terror: State Failure, Development, and Human Rights -- Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Toward a Minimalist Liberalism -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Liberalism and Transformation is the first scholarly work that explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deployment of violence, force, and intervention. Using an approach that includes interpretive and contextual analysis of texts from writers, philosophers, and policy-makers across nearly two centuries, as well as historiographical and historical analysis of archival documents (some of which have been recently declassified) and other media, Liberalism and Transformation narrates the messy history of emancipatory liberalism and its engagement with issues of war and peace. The book contributes



to both a rethinking of liberal democracy and its relationship to world politics, as well as the effects of liberal internationalism on global processes. Furthermore, Liberalism and Transformation invites readers to reflect on global ethics and transformation in world politics. In the first place, it shows how ethical imaginings of the world have direct effects on actions of transformative importance. In the second place, it suggests that discourses are fluid, changing, and complex.