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UNINA9910462214503321 |
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Brookfield Harold |
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Exploring Agrodiversity / / Harold Brookfield |
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New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2001] |
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1 online resource (371 p.) |
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Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation |
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306.3/49 |
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333.7616 |
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Agrobiodiversity |
Agriculture - General |
Agriculture |
Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Plan of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Presenting Agrodiversity -- Chapter 1. Presenting Diversity by Example: Mintima and Bayninan -- Chapter 2. Diversity, Stress, and Opportunity -- Chapter 3. Defining, Describing, and Writing About Agrodiversity -- Chapter 4. Learning About the History of Agrodiversity -- Chapter 5. Understanding Soils and Soil-Plant Dynamics -- Part II. Diversity Within Land Rotational Systems -- Chapter 6. Analyzing Shifting Cultivation -- Chapter 7. Alternative Ways to Farm Parsimonious Soils -- Chapter 8. Managing Plants in the Fallow and the Forest -- Chapter 9. Coping with Problems: Degraded Land, Slope Dynamics, and Flood -- Part III. Paths of Transformation -- Chapter 10. Who Has Driven Agricultural Change? -- Chapter 11. Farmer-Driven Transformation in Modern Times -- Chapter 12. The Green Revolution -- Part IV. The Future of Agrodiversity -- Chapter 13. Recent Trends in Agriculture -- Chapter 14. Science, Farmers, and Politics -- Epilogue: Looking at the Future -- References -- Index |
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Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward conserving resources, especially soil. They have shown considerable resilience in the face of major onslaughts against their way of life by outsiders and government.Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, this book provides in-depth analysis of agricultural diversity and explores its history. The book also considers the effect of the "gene revolution" on small farmers and reviews the effects of the "green revolution" in Asian countries. In conclusion, it questions whether the diverse agricultural practices employed by small farmers can survive modern pressures and the global ambitions of the biotechnology industry. |
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UNINA9910552732303321 |
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Current Trends and Open Problems in Computational Mechanics / / edited by Fadi Aldakheel, Blaž Hudobivnik, Meisam Soleimani, Henning Wessels, Christian Weißenfels, Michele Marino |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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1 online resource (587 pages) |
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Mechanics, Applied |
Solids |
Mathematics - Data processing |
Solid Mechanics |
Computational Science and Engineering |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Chapter 1: Multiphysics computation of thermomechanical fatigue in electronics under electrical loading -- Chapter 2: Phase-field modeling of fatigue crack propagation in brittle materials -- Chapter 3: A non-intrusive global/local cycle-jumping techniques: application to visco-plastic structures -- Chapter 4: VEM approach for homogenization of fibre-reinforced composites with curvilinear inclusions -- Chapter 5: Free Bloch wave propagation in periodic Cauchy materials: analytical and computational strategies -- Chapter 6: Divergence free VEM for the Stokes problem with no internal degrees of freedom -- Chapter 7: Strategy for Preventing Membrane Locking through Reparametrization -- Chapter 8: Model-free fracture mechanics and fatigue -- Chapter 9: Node based non-invasive form finding revisited - the challenge of remeshing -- Chapter 10: Micropolar modelling of periodic Cauchy materials based on asymptotic homogenization -- Chapter 11: Experimental and numerical investigation of granules as crash-absorber in ship building -- Chapter 12: On Hydraulic Fracturing in Fully and Partially Saturated Brittle Porous Material -- Chapter13: Efficient two-scale modeling of porous media using numerical model reduction with fully computable error bounds -- Chapter 14: Perspectives on the master-master contact formulation -- Chapter 15: Remarks on the History of Glacier Research and the Flow Law of Ice -- Chapter 16: Anisotropic Failure Criteria in Relation to Crack Phase-Field Modeling at Finite Strains. |
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This Festschrift is dedicated to Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Wriggers on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Thanks to his high dedication to research, over the years Peter Wriggers has built an international network with renowned experts in the field of computational mechanics. This is proven by the large number of contributions from friends and collaborators as well as former PhD students from all over the world. The diversity of Peter Wriggers network is mirrored by the range of topics that are covered by this book. To name only a few, these include contact mechanics, finite & virtual element technologies, micromechanics, multiscale approaches, fracture mechanics, isogeometric analysis, stochastic methods, meshfree and particle methods. Applications of numerical simulation to specific problems, e.g. Biomechanics and Additive Manufacturing is also covered. The volume intends to present an overview of the state of the art and current trends in computational mechanics for academia and industry. |
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