Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Apples
Originating in Central Asia, apples are one of the most important fruits globally and are grown in over 100 countries. Apple cultivation faces a number of challenges. Increasing global competition has put the focus on lowering costs whilst further...
Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Wheat Volume 1
This book reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as their application to produce drought-resistant and other improved varieties. It also discusses wheat nutritional quality. Finally it reviews developments such as disease-resistant variet...
Achieving Sustainable Mobility
Sustainable mobility has become the new imperative for transport policy. There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, such as the development of more efficient conventional transport technologies, the promotion of ...
Achieving Sustainable Urban Form
Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to mi...
Achieving Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests
"The book is very effective in communicating the many aspects, dimensions and interpretations of sustainable forest management (SFM)?It is clearly born out of an ambitious remit to present an overview of SFM across all its dimensions. In this...
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the politi...
Achieving Sustainable Production of Pig Meat Volume 2
Pig production faces many hurdles in meeting increasing global demand sustainably. This volume discusses advances in breeding to improve both productivity and quality. It also reviews key developments in improving animal nutrition.
The sustainable development goals report 2018
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018 provides an overview of progress towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and is prepared by the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in cooperation with t...
The Cultivation of Taste
After many decades, if not centuries, of neglect of fine food and high-level restaurants in Britain, we are seeing a massive explosion of interest in food, cooking, and dining out. Christel Lane's book charts the process of this transformation and...
The Cultivation of Taste
After many decades, if not centuries, of neglect of fine food and high-level restaurants in Britain, we are seeing a massive explosion of interest in food, cooking, and dining out. Christel Lane's book charts the process of this transformation and...
From Summits to Solutions
A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of ...
Sustainable Development Goals
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance, Technology and Law Reform Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental rethink from businesses and governments across the globe. To make the ambitious goals a reality, trillions of dollars ...
Mushroom Cultivation
Learn how to grow wild and exotic, medicinally important, sustainable, and deeply delicious mushrooms right at your own home, just as people throughout the world have been doing for centuries. Mushrooms are healthy, packed with vitamins and antiox...
Achieving Society
Harvard University Professor David C. McClelland is chiefly known for his work on achievement motivation, but his research interests extended to personality and consciousness. He pioneered workplace motivational thinking, developing achievement-ba...
Achieving Democracy
Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country. Americans have relied on philosophical pragmatism and on the impulse of political progressivism to express those creedal democratic va...
Achieving Understanding
This is a study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident.
Achieving Knowledge
When we affirm (or deny) that someone knows something, we are making a value judgment of sorts - we are claiming that there is something superior (or inferior) about that person's opinion, or their evidence, or perhaps about them. A central task o...
Achieving Longevity
Starting a business is hard, but keeping an established company going can be equally challenging. In the long run, every business will need to adapt to changing market conditions, technologies, and competitive environments. Achieving Longevity exp...
Achieving DevOps
Ben is stuck. A development lead with a strong vision for how the intersection of development and operations at his office can be improved, he can't help but feel overwhelmed and discouraged by common problems such as slow turnaround time, rushed ...
Achieving Society
Harvard Professor David C. McClelland shares research and analysis on the reasoning behind the fluctuating development of society. The Achieving Society provides a factual basis for evaluating economic, historical, and sociological theories that e...
Achieving Democracy
Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country. Americans have relied on philosophical pragmatism and on the impulse of political progressivism to express those creedal democratic va...
Achieving Excellence
Perform to your potential with proven mental training techniques! Achieving Excellence: Mastering the Mindset for Peak Performance in Sport and Life offers a variety of peak performance strategies to help athletes, coaches, and performers of all k...
Review of Developments in Transport in Asia and the Pacific 2024
Sustainable Trasport is critical for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through enhancing accessibility to essential services and facilities and reducing inequalities, supporting industry, innovation and connectivity, including ass...
Autumn Apple Recipes
Autumn Apple Recipes Apples are as American as Apple Pie Everyone loves apples. They are sweet, crunchy and very good for you. They are one of nature's Super Foods.Apples are low in calories with 0 grams of fat. Plus, eating more apples can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, diabetes, and asthma. Apples are a good source of vitamin C, are rich in antioxidants which fight off the damage caused by free radicals, which has been linked to cancer, hardening of the arteries, inflammation, and neurological diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's . Apples are associated with a reduced risk of stroke.Apples are a great source of fiber which can lessen inflammation associated with weight-related diseases and even boost immunity.So have an apple a day to keep the doctor away. And this cookbook can help. It is full of mouth-watering delicious apple recipes for you to enjoy. Recipes Include * Apple Pie * Caramel Apple Pie * Caramel Apple Crumble Pie * Cream Cheese
Education for Sustainable Development in the Postcolonial World
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) lies at the heart of global, regional and national policy agendas, with the goal of achieving socially and environmentally just development through the provision of inclusive, equitable quality education...
Solar Energy Engineering
Energy policy promoting sustainable development is transforming global energy markets. Solar power, the most abundant of all renewable resources, is crucial to greater achieving energy security and sustainability. This new edition of Solar ...
Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals
Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of ...
Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Apples
This comprehensive introduction contains everything you need to know about the history, botany and cultivation of apples, from planting, pruning and propagation to harvesting, storing and cooking. A stunning identification guide features 800 origi...
Cultivating the Soul
In Cultivating the Soul Luigi Zoja argues that the soul's 'cultivation' underpins all cultural phenomena. The author examines the mythopoetic function in human beings by locating Psychoanalysis within the history of the Western world and firmly ro...
City-Region 2020
Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance...
City-Region 2020
Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance...
Cultivating Knowledge
Cultivating Knowledge highlights the agency, creativity, opportunism, and performance of individuals and communities carving out successful lives in a changing agricultural landscape. The practice of sustainable agriculture on the far...
GAIN Methodology
Achieving efficient, sustainable and smallholder-inclusive staple food systems often require strong, credible, and economically effective producer organisations. In much of Africa, and particularly in West and Central region, this objective remain...
Building Futures
A reduction in the energy demand of buildings can make a major contribution to achieving national and international carbon reduction goals, in addition to addressing the interlinked issues of sustainable development, fuel poverty and fuel security...
Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business Results
Employee engagement is the cornerstone of achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. In Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees , leadership expert Lee J. Colan delivers the "how to" for inspiring your team so they ...
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management is the first book to explore the benefits to the firm of a globally integrated approach to the management philosophy of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). The best hope for achieving a sustainable competitive ...
Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans
As governments around the world work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the trans-disciplinary topic of oceans management is fast being recognized as one of the most important challenges of the twenty-first century. This ...
The Whole Building Handbook
The Whole Building Handbook is a compendium of all the issues and strategies that architects need to understand to design and construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. The authors move beyond the current definition of sustainabili...