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Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis: Questions, Conceptions and Red Threads -- Chapter 2. Coastal Ecosystems from a Social-Ecological Perspective -- Part II. Ecological Structures and Functions of the German Baltic Sea Coast -- Chapter 3. The Abiotic Background: Climatic, Hydrological and Geological Conditions of the Southern Baltic -- Chapter 4. Geological and Sedimentary Conditions -- Chapter 5. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: The Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Chapter 6. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: Shoreline Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Ecosystem and Landscape Functions of the Coast: Recent Research Results -- Chapter 8: Benthic Habitats and Their Inhabitants -- Part III. Ecological Structures and Functions of Coastal Water and Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 9. Introducing the Ecological Aspects -- Chapter 10. Baltic Sea Aquatic Ecosystems in a Gradient from Land to Open Sea -- Chapter 11. Comparison of Abiotic Parameters and Dominant Primary Producers Between the Two Main Investigation Areas -- Chapter 12. Short-Term Variability, Long-Term Trends and Seasonal Aspects in the Darß-Zingst Bodden Chain -- Chapter 13. Carbon Fluxes/Food-Webs: Effect of Macrophytes on Food Web Characteristics in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 14. Ecological Structure in Benthic Habitats of Offshore Waters -- Chapter 15. Patterns of Bioturbation and Associated Matter Fluxes -- Chapter 16. Seasonal Aspects and Short-Term Variability of the Pelagic Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 17. Long-Term Trends of the Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 18. Nutrient and Limitation Regimes in Coastal Water Ecosystems -- Part IV. Combining the Aspects: Ecosystem Service Assessment -- Chapter 19. The Human Factor: Coastal Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 20. Introduction: The Concept of Ecosystem Service Assessment Applied to Coastal Systems -- Chapter 21. The Missing Links in Ecosystem Service Research -- Chapter 22. Eudaimonic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 23. Economic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 24. Spatial Ecosystem Service Assessment Across the Land-Sea-Interface -- Chapter 25. Temporal Changes in Aquatic Ecosystem Services Provision: Approach and Examples -- Chapter 26. Assessing Temporal Changes in Ecosystem Service Provisions: Conceiving Future Pathways -- Part V. Synthesis: Assessment as a Tool for Managing Coastal Ecosystems? -- Chapter 27. Applying the Integrated Approach -- Chapter 28. Mechanisms of Ecosystem Service Production: An Outcome of Ecosystem Functions and Ecological Integrity in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 29. Ecosystem Service Assessment in European Coastal and Marine Policies -- Chapter 30. Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development: The Case for Strong Sustainability -- Chapter 31. Concluding Remarks.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Who are the marine mammals? -- Chapter 2. Marine mammal acoustics -- Chapter 3. Whaling, seal culling, and the effect of fisheries on marine mammals -- Chapter 4. Plastic debris and its impacts on marine mammals -- Chapter 5. Chemical pollution and diseases of marine mammals -- Chapter 6. How to become a marine mammal scientist.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1 Bread Industry Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment -- Chapter 2 Product Environmental Footprint and Bread Industry -- Chapter 3 Life Cycle Assessment and Product Environmental Footprint - recommendations for integral optimization of economic and environmental performance -- Chapter 4 Ensuring sustainability of baking industry in North Macedonia -- Chapter 5 Sustainability approach of the baking industry along the food supply chain -- Chapter 6 Sustainability assessment of the baking industry complying with standards requirements: a case of Romania -- Chapter 7 Across American overview on sustainability approach throughout baking industry: An analytical-descriptive approach -- Chapter 8 Asian Overview on Sustainability Approach in Baking Industry -- Chapter 9 African Experience in Ensuring Sustainability in Baking -- Chapter 10 Indian experience in ensuring sustainability in baking industry -- Chapter 11 Measuring Baking Business Performance -- Chapter 12 Forming the efficient business model for bakery -- Chapter 13 Assessment of the sustainable competitiveness of agricultural enterprises on the grain market: case of Ukraine -- Chapter 14 Economic viability and sustainability in baking industry/ Simeuna - bread producer with own grain production -- Chapter 15 Impact of Bakery Innovation on Business Resilience Growth -- Chapter 16 Innovation in the commercial system of the small bakery industry -- New business models in food systems for farmers and companies, based on multi-actor approach -- Chapter 18 The role of rural women in bread industry – Job creation and retention in rural areas.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Section 1: Introduction -- 1. Introduction: Career Preparation for the Food & Beverage Industry -- 2. The Equilibrium of Life-Career Planning -- 3. First Jobs for Food Science -- Section 2: The undergraduate student experience -- 4. Making the Most of Your Undergraduate Experience -- 5. Campus Career Services and Centers -- 6. Professionalism and Leadership -- 7. Is Food Science Right For Me? The Transfer Experience -- 8. The Decision to Pursue an Internship -- 9. IFT Student Association -- Section 3: A successful industry career -- 10. Finding and negotiating a job -- 11. Employer expectations/Managing corporate life -- 12. Could a small company be for you? -- 13. A successful industry career or Making your way in a company -- Section 4: Careers with a degree in food science -- 14. Quality -- 15. Production management -- 16. Product development -- 17. Technical sales -- 18. R&D -- 19. Regulatory and food law -- 20. Careers in Traceability -- 21. Using food science in special interest groups -- 22. Food for Good: Leveraging Food Science to Feed the World -- 23. Careers that combine Culinary and Food Science -- 24. Entrepreneurship and Consulting: Taking a Different Path -- 25. Careers in Sensory Science -- 26. Food Science in Community-Based Food Systems -- 27. Working for a Startup Company -- 28. Careers in Sustainability -- 29. A Career in Management -- Section 5: The graduate student experience -- 30. Is grad school right for me? -- 31. Finding and getting into the right grad program -- 32. The transition from undergraduate to graduate student -- 33. Faculty expectations of graduate students.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface -- Chapter 1: Evolution of Bilateria from a Meiofauna Perspective – Miniaturization in the Focus -- Chapter 2: Meiofauna Shaping Biogeochemical Processes -- Chapter 3: Meiofauna and Biofilms – the Slimy Universe -- Chapter 4: Meiofauna Meets Microbes: Chemosynthetic Symbioses -- Chapter 5: Marine Meiofauna Diversity and Biogeography – Paradigms and challenges -- Chapter 6: Freshwater Meiofauna – a Biota with Different Rules? -- Chapter 7: Hidden Players – Meiofauna Mediates Ecosystem Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbances in the Ocean -- Chapter 8: Deep-Sea Meiofauna – a World of its Own or Deeply Connected? -- Chapter 9: Polar Meiofauna – Antipoles or Parallels? -- Chapter 10: Cave Meiofauna - Models for Ecology and Evolution -- Chapter 11: Meiofauna – Adapted to Life at the Limits -- Concluding Remarks -- Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Entomophagy in 3D Food Printing -- Entomophagy and its Application through 3D Printing for Sustainable Food Development -- Crickets as a promising alternative edible insect: nutritional and technological aspects and 3D printing prospective -- Insects Nutrition And 3D Printing -- Entomophagy: Application of Edible Insects in 3D Printed Foods -- Edible Insects as Materials for Food Printing: Printability and Nutritional value -- Drosophila as a Potential Functional Food: An Edge over other Edible Insects -- 3D printing, insects and food: a bibliometric analysis -- Inkjet-based 3D food printing for sustainable insect materials: A state-of-the-art review and prospective materials -- Extrusion-based 3D printing concept in customized nutritional products -- A Review on Binder jetting and Selective Laser Sintering: a novel assessment of the processes for 3D Insect food printing materials -- Social, Economic, Scientific and Environment Aspects of Entomophagy in 3D Food Printing.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1: Agricultural biodiversity and food security: Opportunities and challenges -- Chapter 2: Role of neglected plant foods in achieving dietary diversity, zero hunger and good health -- Chapter 3: Exploring neglected and underutilized plant foods to fight malnutrition and hunger in South Asia -- Chapter 4: Inclusion criteria of underutilized food plants in household food security planning -- Chapter 5: Neglected plant foods of India -- Chapter 6: Neglected plant foods of Pakistan -- Chapter 7:Neglected plant foods of Bangladesh -- Chapter 8: Exploring social-ecological systems for mainstreaming neglected and underutilised plant foods: local solutions to food security challenges in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 9: Neglected plant foods of Nepal -- Chapter 10: Grain millet: Potential to fill nutrition gaps in the context of food security and climate change -- Chapter 11: Amaranth (Amaranthus spp.): Food properties and potential health benefits -- Chapter 12: Moringa (Moringa oleifera): Multi-functional role in management of malnutrition and health promotion -- Chapter 13: Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera): A review of economic potential, industrial valorization, nutritional and health significance -- Chapter 14: Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa): Potential of the “golden grain” for food and nutritional security in South Asia -- Chapter 15: Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatats): An intervention food in management of food and nutritional security in South Asia -- Chapter 16: Taro (Colocasia spp.): Applications in food production and improving nutrition in South Asia -- Chapter 17: Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus): An overview of nutritional and functional food properties -- Chapter 18: Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum): An overview of food uses and health benefits.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Lemons and limes -- Grapefruit -- Mosambi -- Orange -- Pomelo -- Tangerine (Citrus reticulata) -- Etrog citron (Citrus medica var. ethrog Engl) -- Jabara (Citrus jabara) -- Kumquat -- Greek citron (Citrus medica) -- Kinnow -- Post Harvest Handling Of Citrus Fruits -- Citrus based food products and their shelf life -- Citrus waste: A treasure of promised phytochemicals and its nutritional-nutraceutical value in health promotion and Industrial applications -- Bioactive compounds in citrus fruits: Extraction and identification -- Potential benefits of bioactive functional components of Citrus fruits for health promotion and disease prevention -- Citrus Diseases And Management.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction to cereals -- Bread; Cookies and Biscuit -- Cakes and muffins -- Tortillas -- Crackers -- Popped and puffed products -- Flaked products -- Pasta -- Noodles -- Beverages -- Pastry -- Packaging of cereal products.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. A Brief History of the Lymnaeid Research -- Chapter 2. General Characteristics of the Family Lymnaeidae -- Chapter 3. Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Family Lymnaeidae -- Chapter 4. Conchological and Anatomical Identification of the Lymnaeid Snails -- Chapter 5. Molecular Techniques for the Study of Ecological and Evolutionary Processes in Lymnaeids -- Chapter 6. The Fossil Record of the Lymnaeidae – Revisiting a 200-myr-Long Story of Success -- Chapter 7. Biogeography of the Living Lymnaeidae -- Chapter 8. Patterns and Processes of Speciation in Lymnaeidae -- Chapter 9. Ecology of Lymnaeid Snails -- Chapter 10. Reproductive Strategies, Genetic Diversity, and Invasive Ability in Lymnaeidae -- Chapter 11. Biology of the Lymnaeidae–Parasite Interaction -- Chapter 12. Overview of Interactions Between Parasitic Digenea and Their Molluscan Hosts, with Special Emphasis on the Lymnaeidae -- Chapter 13. Lymnaeid Snails and the Transmission of Fasciolosis: Understanding the Differential Risks from Local to Global Scale -- Chapter 14. Laboratory Cultures of Lymnaeidae for Parasitological Experiments -- Chapter 15. Control of Fasciolosis-Transmitting Lymnaeids in the Field -- Chapter 16. Conservation of the Lymnaeidae -- Chapter 17. Perspectives: An Integrated Approach on Future Studies of the Lymnaeidae.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Insights from Cuban Coral Reefs -- Part II. History -- Chapter 2. Research History of Corals and Coral Reefs in Cuba -- Part III. Description -- Chapter 3. Physical-Geographic Characteristics of Cuban Reefs -- Chapter 4. Outline of the Geology, Geomorphology and Evolution of the Late Qua-ternary Shelf and Uplifted Marine Terraces of Cuba; Tectonic and Sea Level Control of Present Day Coral Reef Distribution -- Chapter 5. A Remote Sensing Appraisal of the Extent and Geomorphological Diversity of the Coral Reefs of Cuba -- Part IV. Biota -- Chapter 6. Macrophytes Associated with Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 7. Sponges: Conspicuous Inhabitants of the Cuban Coral Reefs and Their Potential as Bioindicators of Contamination -- Chapter 8. Species List of Cuban Stony Corals: Class Anthozoa, Order Scleractinia; Class Hydrozoa, Suborders Capitata and Filifera -- Chapter 9. Octocoral Forests: Distribution, Abundance, and Species Richness in Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 10. Current State of Knowledge of Reef Mollusks in Cuba -- Chapter 11. Herbivory on Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 12. Chronology of the Lionfish Invasion in Cuba and Evaluation of Impacts on Native Reef Fishes -- Chapter 13. Sharks and Rays in Cuban Coral Reefs: Ecology, Fisheries, and Conservation -- Chapter 14. Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Cuba -- Part V. Ecology, Conservation and Management -- Chapter 15. Status of Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 16. Population Genetics of Cuba’s Scleractinian Corals -- Chapter 17. Multiple Cumulative Effects on Coral Reefs of the Northwestern Cuban Region -- Chapter 18. Guanahacabibes National Park: Research, Monitoring and Man-Agement for the Conservation of Coral Reefs -- Chapter 19. Ciénaga de Zapata Biosphere Reserve: Integrating Science with the Management of Coral Reefs -- Chapter 20. Coral Reefs in Cuban Marine Protected Areas -- Part VI. Economic Valuation -- Chapter 21. Economic Valuation of the Coral Reefs of Jardines de la Reina and Punta Francés National Parks, Cuba -- Chapter 22. The Economic Value of Coral Reefs in the Context of Marine Protected Areas: Experiences of the South Cuban Archipelago Project -- Chapter 23. Fish Can Be More Valuable Alive Than Dead.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. A Global View of the Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World -- Chapter 2. Biology, Ecology and Threats to Cold-Water Corals on Brazil’s Deep-Sea Margin -- Chapter 3. Cold-Water Corals of the World: Gulf of Mexico -- Chapter 4. Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the Southeastern United States -- Chapter 5. Norwegian Coral Reefs -- Chapter 6. Waters of Ireland and the UK -- Chapter 7. Life and Death of Cold-Water Corals across the Mediterranean Sea -- Chapter 8. Cold-Water Coral Reefs in the Oxygen Minimum Zones off West Africa -- Chapter 9. New Zealand: South West Pacific Region -- Chapter 10. Deep-Sea Corals of the North and Central Pacific Seamounts.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I. Fish Resources and Fishing Areas of the Western Balkans -- Chapter 1. Fish Resources of Inland Waters and Fisheries in Slovenia, Management, Sustainability and Conservation -- Chapter 2. Inland Fisheries in Croatia: Historical Aspects, Fish Resources, Management and Conservation -- Chapter 3. Fish Resources and Fisheries in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Overview, Sustainability, and Conservation -- Chapter 4. Inland Fisheries in Serbia: Historical Aspect, Fish Resources, Management and Conservation -- Chapter 5. The Freshwater Fish Resources and Freshwater Fisheries of Montenegro, Management, Sustainability and Conservation – With a Special Perspective on Lake Skadar -- Chapter 6. Fish and Fisheries of the Republic of North Macedonia, Current Situation and Its Perspective -- Chapter 7. Fish Resources of Inland Waters and Fisheries in Albania, Management, Sustainability and Conservation -- Part II. Some Fish Species of the Western Balkans Important for Fisheries and Conservation -- Chapter 8. Freshwater Crayfish of Western Balkan: Is It Possible to Use Them Sustainably or Do They Need Prompt Conservation Actions? -- Chapter 9. Salmonid Fish Species – Opportunities for Sustainable Use under Multiple Pressures and Current Climatic Change -- Chapter 10. Past and Future of Sturgeon Species (Acipenseridae) in Western Balkans – Case for Permanent Conservation or Sustainable Management -- Part III. Effects of Stressors on Inland Water Ecosystems and Fish Resources -- Chapter 11. Eutrophication of Fishing Waters and the Influence of Cyanobacterial Occurrence and Blooming on Fish Resources – Case Studies in Serbia -- Chapter 12. Pollution of Fishing Waters of the Western Balkan – Potentially Toxic Elements and Their Impact on the Ecological Sustainability of Fish Resources -- Chapter 13. Invasive Macroinvertebrate and Fish Species and Their Impact on Fish Resources: A Case Study on Fishing Waters of Serbia -- Part IV. Fish Stock Assessment Methods -- Chapter 14. A Brief Overview of the Development of the ES-HIPPO Model for Assessing the Sustainability and Conservation Priorities of Fish, Fish Resources, and Inland Water Habitats -- Part V. Conservation and Aquaculture -- Chapter 15. Тhe Role and Importance of Aquaculture for the Ecological Sustainability of Fish Resources in the Inland Water of Serbia -- Chapter 16. Huchen Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758) in Croatia: Distribution, Genetic Diversity, Threats and Conservation -- Chapter 17. Future Perspective of Sustainable Development of Freshwater Fisheries and Conservation of Threatened Fish Species, Crustaceans and Molluscs -- Part VI. Social Aspect -- Chapter 18. Political and Socio-Economic aspects of Fisheries in Inland and Coastal Waters of the Western Balkan -- Chapter 19. Fish Resources of the Western Balkans, Sustainable Use and/or Conservation?.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: An integrated conservation vision for Chilean Patagonia -- Global change and acceleration of anthropic pressures on Patagonian ecosystems -- Representativeness assessment and identification of priorities for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems in Chilean Patagonia -- Terrestrial protected areas in Chilean Patagonia: characterization, historical evolution, and management -- Conserving the origin of rivers: intact forested watersheds in western Patagonia -- Peatlands in Chilean Patagonia: distribution, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and conservation -- Steppe ecosystems in Chilean Patagonia: distribution, climate, biodiversity, and threats to their sustainable management -- Coastal-marine protection in Chilean Patagonia: historical progress, current situation, and challenges -- Marine mammals and seabirds of Chilean Patagonia: focal species for the conservation of marine ecosystems -- Hard bottom macrobenthos of Chilean Patagonia: emphasis on conservation of subltitoral invertebrate and algal forests -- Fisheries and marine conservation in Chilean Patagonia -- Aquaculture and its impacts on the conservation of Chilean Patagonia -- Ecological connections across the marine-terrestrial interface in Chilean Patagonia -- A conservation assessment of freshwater ecosystems in southwestern Patagonia -- Chilean Patagonian glaciers and environmental change -- Conservation and indigenous people in Chilean Patagonia -- Drivers of change in ecosystems of Chilean Patagonia: current and projected trends -- Analysis of tourism development linked to protected areas in Chilean Patagonia.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Dytiscidae: Their Diversity, Historical Importance, Cultural Significance, and Other Musings -- Chapter 2. Larval Chaetotaxy of World Dytiscidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) and Implications for the Study of Hydradephaga -- Chapter 3. The Phylogeny and Classification of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) -- Chapter 4. Predaceous Diving Beetle Sexual Systems -- Chapter 5. Morphology, Anatomy, and Physiological Aspects of Dytiscids -- Chapter 6. Chemical Ecology and Biochemistry of Dytiscidae -- Chapter 7. Community Patterns in Dytiscids -- Chapter 8. Predator-Prey Ecology of Dytiscids -- Chapter 9. The Unique Australian Subterranean Dytiscidae: Diversity, Biology, and Evolution -- Chapter 10. Habitats Supporting Dytiscid Life -- Chapter 11. Dispersal in Dytiscidae -- Chapter 12. The Conservation of Predaceous Diving Beetles: Knowns, Unknowns and Anecdotes.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Fundamentals of Tree and Vine Physiology -- Mechanical Management of Modern Planar Fruit Tree Canopies -- Orchard Water Management -- Vineyard Water Management -- Pests and diseases management -- Advanced Technologies for Crop-load Management -- Mechanical Harvesting -- Autonomous Platforms -- Management Information Systems and Emerging Technologies -- Economic and Societal Aspects.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. History and Social Aspects of Sourdough -- 2. The sourdough legislation -- 3. Chemistry of Cereal Grains -- 4. Technology of Sourdough Fermentation and Sourdough Applications -- 5. Steamed Bread -- 6. Taxonomy and Biodiversity of Sourdough Lactic Acid Bacteria -- 7. Taxonomy, Biodiversity and Physiology of Sourdough Yeasts -- 8. Physiology and Biochemistry of Lactic Acid Bacteria -- 9. Sourdough: A Tool to Improve Bread Flavor, Rheology and Shelf Life -- 10. Sourdough: A Tool for Non-Conventional Fermentation and To Recover Side Streams -- 11. Nutritional Aspects of Cereal Fermentation with Lactic Acid Bacteria and Yeasts -- 12. Sourdough and Gluten-Free Products -- 13. Sourdough and Cereal Beverages -- 14. Perspectives.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: An Overview of Plant-based Food Alternatives (PBFAs): Classification, Textural and Sensory Characteristics -- Production of Meat Analogs and Consumer Preferences -- Fortification of Plant-based Food Analogs -- Role of Fermentation in Plant-based Food Production and Non-dairy Fermented Foods -- Plant-based Food Printing at a Glance -- Bioaccesibility and Bioavailability of Vitamins, Minerals and Bioactive Compounds in Plant-based Foods -- Health Effects of Plant-based Foods and Their Components.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I : FOOD SYSTEM CONCEPT AND SUMMARIZED RECOMMENDATIONS -- Chapter 1: Food systems: seven priorities to end hunger and protect the planet -- Chapter 2: Food system concepts and definitions for science and political action -- Part II: ACTIONS ON HUNGER AND HEALTHY DIETS -- Chapter 3: Healthy diet - A Definition for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 -- Chapter 4: Ensuring Access to Safe and Nutritious Food for All Through Transformation of Food Systems -- Chapter 5: Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns -- Chapter 6: Fruits and Vegetables for Healthy Diets: Priorities for Food System Research and Action -- Chapter 7: Modelling Actions for Transforming Agrifood Systems -- Part IV: ACTIONS FOR EQUITY AND RESILIENCE IN FOOD SYSTEMS -- Chapter 8: Advance Equitable Livelihoods -- Chapter 9: A Review of Evidence on Gender Equality, Women‘s Empowerment and Food Systems -- Chapter 10: The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation -- Chapter 11: Diversification for enhanced food systems resilience -- Chapter 12: Addressing Food Crises in Violent Conflicts -- Chapter 13: In brief: The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems -- Chapter 14: Marginal areas and indigenous people – Priorities for research and action -- Chapter 15: Priorities for inclusive urban food system transformations in the Global South -- Chapter 16: Secondary Cities as Catalysts for Nutritious Diets in Low- And Middle-Income Countries -- Part V: ACTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT -- Chapter 17: Boost Nature Positive Production. Chapter 18: Pathways to Advance Agroecology for a Successful Transformation to Sustainable Food Systems -- Chapter 19: A New Paradigm for Plant Nutrition -- Chapter 20: Livestock and sustainable food systems: status, trends, and priority actions -- Chapter 21: The Vital Roles of Blue Foods in the Global Food System -- Chapter 22: Food System Innovations and Digital Technologies to Foster Productivity Growth and Rural Transformation -- Chapter 23: Leveraging data, models & farming innovation to prevent, prepare for & manage pest incursions: Delivering a pest risk service for low-income countries -- Chapter 24: Food Systems Innovation Hubs in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries -- Chapter 25: A Whole Earth Approach to Nature Positive Food: Biodiversity and Agriculture -- Chapter 26: Water for Food Systems and Nutrition -- Chapter 27: Climate Change and Food Systems -- Chapter 28: Delivering climate change outcomes with agroecology in low- and middle-income countries: evidence and actions needed -- Chapter 29: Crop Diversity, its Conservation and Use for Better Food Systems -- Chapter 30: Safeguarding and using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity -- Chapter 31: Reduction of Food Loss and Waste – The Challenges and Conclusions for Actions -- Part V: COSTS, INVESTMENT, FINANCE, AND TRADE ACTIONS -- Chapter 32: The True Cost of Food – a preliminary assessment -- Chapter 33: Cost and Affordability of Preparing a Basic Meal around the World -- Chapter 34: The global cost of reaching a world without hunger: Investment costs and policy action opportunities -- Chapter 35: Financing SGD2 and Ending Hunger -- Chapter 36: Trade and Sustainable Food Systems -- Part VI: Regional Perspectives -- Chapter 37: Policy Options for food system transformation in Africa and the role of science, technology and innovation -- Chapter 38: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Chapter 39: The Role of Science, Technology, and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems in Asia -- Chapter 40: The Role of Science, Technology, and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems in Europe -- Chapter 41: Transforming Chinese Food Systems for both Human and Planetary Health -- Chapter 42: Key Areas of the Agricultural Science Development in Russia in the Context of Global Trends and Challenges -- Chapter 43: Food System in India. Challenges, Performance and Promise -- Part VII: STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES AND GOVERNANCE -- Chapter 44: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems Globally -- Chapter 45: The Bioeconomy and Food Systems Transformation -- Chapter 46: In the Age of Pandemics, connecting Food Systems and Health: a Global One Health Approach -- Chapter 47: How could science–policy interfaces boost food system transformation? -- Chapter 48: The Transition Steps Needed to Transform Our Food Systems -- Chapter 49: Engaging Science in Food Systems Transformation: Toward Implementation of the Action Agenda of the United Nations Food Systems Summit -- Chapter 50: Science for Transformation of Food Systems: Opportunities for the UN Food Systems Summit.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Diversity, Distribution, and Biology of Sea Cucumber -- Nutritional Components of Sea Cucumber and the Biochemical Characteristics of Autolytic Enzymes -- The Functional Components of Sea Cucumber and their Nutritional and Biological Activities -- Traditional Processing Technologies and Products of Sea Cucumber: Historical Review -- The Pretreatment Technology of Raw Sea Cucumber and New Processing Technology of Salted Sea Cucumber -- The New Processing Technology of Dried Sea Cucumber Products -- Ready-to-Eat Sea Cucumber Products and Collagen Stabilization Technology -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Sulfated Polysaccharides from Sea Cucumber -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Functional Lipids from Sea Cucumber -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Collagen Peptides from Sea Cucumber -- The Quality Management Systems and Standards of Sea Cucumber Products -- Food Safety Issues and Regulatory Requirements of Sea Cucumber Products and Their Internationalization.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry: The Technique -- Chapter 2. Statistical and Mathematical Models in Food Authentication -- Part II. Authentication of Food -- Chapter 3. Cereals, Pseudocereals, Flour and Bakery Products -- Chapter 4. Edible Oils and Fats -- Chapter 5. Milk and Dairy Products -- Chapter 6. Meat, Eggs, Fish and Seafood -- Chapter 7. Honey and Bee Products -- Chapter 8. Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts and Fungi -- Chapter 9 -- Herbs and Spices -- Part III. Authentication of Beverages -- Chapter 10. Fruit Juices -- Chapter 11. Coffee and Tea -- Chapter 12. Wine, Beer and Alcoholic Beverages -- Part IV. Outlook -- Chapter 13. Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectives. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Starch : Current Production & consumption trends -- Modification of Starch -- Oxidation of starch -- Hydrolysis of Starch -- 1. Cross linking of starch -- Octenyl succinic anhydride Modification of starch -- Dry Heat Treatment of Starch -- Heat-moisture treatment of starch -- Annealing of Starch -- High Hydrostatic Pressure Treatment of Starch -- Ultrasonication of Starch -- Deep Freezing and Thawing Modification and its impact on starch properties -- Cold Plasma Treatment of starch -- Microwave Irradiation of Starch -- Gamma irradiation of Starch -- Enzymatic modification of starch -- Fermentation Of Starch -- Effect of germination on starch.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I - Tropical and Subtropical Brazilian Coastal Zone -- 1. Brazilian Coastal Zone: Mangroves and Salt Marshes -- 2. Zonation and succession of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems: typical and associated vegetation species -- Part II - The Mangrove Ecosystem -- 3. Variability of Mangroves along the Brazilian Coast -- 4. Ecophysiological and phenology aspects of mangrove species on the Brazilian coast -- 5. Genetic and epigenetic diversity of mangrove plants: markers of adaptation in a changing environment -- 6. A Review on litterfall in Brazilian mangroves -- Part III - The Salt Marsh Ecosystem -- 7. Brazilian salt marshes -- Part IV - The Mangroves and Salt Marshes Associates -- 8. Microbial diversity and microbial food chain -- 9. Brazilian mangrove and salt marsh macroalgal communities -- 10. Invertebrates: Ecology macro and meiofauna associated with mangroves and marshes Brazilian -- 11. Biodiversity, ecology and socioeconomic importance of brachyuran crabs from Brazilian mangroves and salt marshes -- 12. Fish composition in mangroves and salt marshes along the Brazilian coast -- 13. Birds associated with mangroves and salt marshes in Brazil -- 14. Marine mammals and mangroves and mangroves and salt marshes in Brazil: past, present and potencial scenarios -- Part V - Conservation Strategies -- 15. Historical ecology of mangroves: investigating the past to conserve the future -- 16. Economic valuation as a tool for conservation of the Brazilian marine biodiversity of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems -- 17. Mangrove protected areas in Brazil: controversies and perspectives -- 18. Contributions of environmental education to mangrove conservation -- 19. Magrove and salt marsh ecosystems: what to expect from climate changes -- 20. Coastal zone adaptive management -- Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Aspects morphological, molecular, and biochemical of cinnamon -- The main varieties and producing areas of cinnamon -- The quality evaluation of cinnamon -- Bioactive compounds and extraction methods of cinnamon -- The application of cinnamon as a spice in food -- The antioxidant activity of cinnamon extract and its active components -- The inhibitory effect of cinnamon extract and its active components on bacteria -- The inhibitory effect of cinnamon extract and its active components on fungi -- Inhibition of growth and aflatoxin production by cinnamon -- Effective biocontrol weed with cinnamon oil and extract -- The antiviral effect of cinnamon -- The application potential of cinnamon in the treatment of diabetes -- The application potential of cinnamon in neuroprotection -- The anticancer effect of cinnamon -- Hepatoprotective effect of cinnamon extracts -- Safety evaluation of cinnamon or cinnamon extract.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction -- Biomes: Concepts, Characteristics and Terminology -- Profiles of Angola’s Biomes and Ecoregiens -- Landscapes: Geology, Hydrology and Geomorphology.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Habitat: Sunlit Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Shady Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Dark Caves -- Habitat: Intertidal Zone -- Habitat: Sandy Grounds -- Habitat: Seagrass -- Habitat: Muddy Grounds -- Habitat: Open Waters -- Humans and the Sea.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Introduction to Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation -- Part I Rangeland Ecosystems and Processes -- 2. Rangelands of Western North America -- 3. A History of North American Rangelands -- 4. Western Rangeland Livestock Production Systems and Grazing Management -- 5. Manipulation of Rangeland Wildlife Habitats -- 6. Role and Management of Fire in Rangelands -- 7. Water is Life: Importance and Management of Riparian Areas for Rangeland Wildlife -- 8. Rangeland Biodiversity -- Part II Species Accounts -- 9. Prairie Grouse -- 10. Sage-Grouse -- 11. Quails -- 12. Rangeland Songbirds -- 13. Wetland Birds of Rangelands -- 14. Avian Predators in Rangelands -- 15. Burrowing Rodents -- 16. Mesocarnivores of Western Rangelands -- 17. Black-tailed and Mule Deer -- 18. White-tailed Deer -- 19. Pronghorn -- 20. Elk -- 21. Feral Equids -- 22. Mountain Ungulates -- 23. American Bison -- 24. Large Carnivores -- 25. Amphibians and Reptiles -- 26. Insects in Grassland Ecosystems -- Part III Social-Ecological Considerations -- 27. Wildlife, Rural Communities, and the Rangeland Livelihoods they Share: Opportunities in a Diverse Economies Approach -- 28. Living with Predators: A 20-year Case Study in the Blackfoot River Watershed of Montana -- 29. A Perspective on Rangeland and Wildlife Disciplines: Similarities Over Differences -- 30. Future of Rangeland Wildlife in North America.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Animals That Stay Together, Hunt Together -- Chapter 2. Social Strategies of the African Lion -- Chapter 3. The Role of Food and Mates in Shaping Asiatic Lion Societies -- Chapter 4. Wolves in a Human World: Social Dynamics of the Northern Hemisphere’s Most Iconic Social Carnivore -- Chapter 5. Hunting Success in the Spotted Hyena: Morphological Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies -- Chapter 6. Hunting Behavior and Social Ecology of African Wild Dogs -- Chapter 7. Social Strategies of a Consummate Marine Predator—Mammal Hunting Killer Whales -- Chapter 8. Mammal Hunting Killer Whales off Monterey, California—A 30-Year Synthesis -- Chapter 9. Sociality and Its Relevance in Group Hunting Mammalian Predators.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: An Introduction: Overview of Nervous system and Brain Disorders -- Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Brain Disorders -- Physiological Significance of Oxidative Stress and Anti-oxidative System -- Oxidative Stress as a triggering Mechanism of Various Diseases -- Chief Role of Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress in Brain Disorders -- Available Treatment Modules of Brain disorders -- Antioxidants Mitigate Oxidative Stress: A General Overview -- Role of Endogenous and Dietary Antioxidants in Brain Disorders -- Antioxidants as an Adjuncts to Conventional Therapies against Oxidative Stress -- Role of Antioxidants, and Life Style in Managing Brain Disorders Oxidative Stress Biomarkers and Antioxidant Treatments in Brain Diseases -- Clinical use of antioxidants for the treatment of Brain disorders. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1: Tissue Culture of Medicinal Plants -- Chapter 2: Mentha -- Chapter 3: Amla -- Chapter 4: Belladonna --  Chapter 5: Babchi -- Chapter 6: Ashwagandha -- Chapter 7: Cowhage -- Chapter 8: Costus -- Chapter 9: Coleus -- Chapter 10: Cinchona -- Chapter 11: Patchouli -- Chapter 12: Black pepper -- Chapter 13: Wild Marigold -- Chapter 14: Vanilla -- Chapter 15: Tuberose -- Chapter 16: Thyme -- Chapter 17: Onion -- Chapter 18: Garlic -- Chapter 19: Fennel -- Chapter 20: Henbane -- Chapter 21: Holy Thistle -- Chapter 22: Guggul -- Chapter 23: Glory Lily -- Chapter 24: Aniseed -- Chapter 25: Sacred Basil --  Chapter 26: Khus -- Chapter 27: Isabgol -- Chapter 28: Kalonji -- Chapter 29: Licorice -- Chapter 30: Brahmi -- Chapter 31: Buckwheat -- Chapter 32: Tianma -- Chapter 33: Chili pepper -- Chapter 34: Kewda -- Chapter 35: Jasmine -- Chapter 36: Opium poppy -- Chapter 37: Lavender -- Chapter 38: Tulsi -- Chapter 39: Chamomile -- Chapter 40: Bhumyamalaki -- Chapter 41: Moringa -- Chapter 42: Saffron -- Chapter 43: Barbados -- Chapter 44:Tea -- Chapter 45: Celery -- Chapter 46: Dioscorea.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: First edition: I. Overview of Direct-Fed Microbials and Prebiotics and Their Interactions with the Host -- 1. The Commensal Microbiota -- 2. Prebiotics of Plant and Microbial Origin -- 3. Microbial Species Characteristics and Selection -- 4. Genomics of Probiotic-Host Interactions -- 5. The Effects of Pre- and Probiotics on the Host Immune Response -- II. Current and Future Status of Practical Applications and Challenges -- 6. Current Status of Practical Applications: Pets -- 7. Current Perspectives on Probiotics in Poultry Preharvest Food Safety -- 8. Current Status of Practical Applications: Probiotics in Dairy Cattle -- 9. Current Future Status of Practical Applications: Beef Cattle -- 10. Future Challenges of Administration of Direct-Fed Microbial Supplementation to Swine -- 11. Characteristics and Modification of the Intestinal Tract Microbiota of Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus -- 12. The Use of Direct-Fed Microbials as a Pre-Harvest Food Safety Intervention in Cattle. Second edition with proposed changes in attachment.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1-Planning model to provide a practical understanding of sustainability perspectives -- Chapter 2-Local Sustainability: measuring the achievement of the urban indicators -- Chapter 3-Assessing regional sustainability by indicators: implications and emerging challenges -- Chapter 4-Integrated Water Resources Management and urban sustainability -- Chapter 5-Smart Cities and sustainability indicators: a structure proposal -- Chapter 6-Educational factors influencing higher education organizations -- Chapter 7-PRME signatory schools and the Interdisciplinary Approach at Education for Sustainable Development -- Chapter 8-Perspectives across education institution and role to sustainable competencies -- Chapter 9-Promoting stakeholders engagement to make feasible, sustainable development -- Chapter 10-The influence on sustainability practices by stakeholders -- Chapter 11-Managing stakeholders for regional sustainability: challenges and mechanisms -- Chapter 12-Understanding and participatory learning the social impact of sustainability perspectives -- Chapter 13-Corporate Social Responsibility and roles of developers for sustainability in companies -- Chapter 14-Waste management: extending beyond local boundaries -- Chapter 15-Observing technologies to environmental sustainability management -- Chapter 16-Access to sanitation services and human health and gender in emerging economies. -- Chapter 17-Assessing sanitation conditions under the SDGs: assisting SDG 6 -- Chapter 18-Risk management and pandemic moment: what is the role of sustainability management?- Chapter 19-Getting the global goals to sustainability in pandemic time: Are we out of track?- Chapter 20. Environmental management and sanitation: Perspectives on waste.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part1. Coastal, Estuarine and Lake (Brackish) Environments: Introduction, Definition, Processes and Dynamics -- Chapter1. Bibliometric analysis of the literature on coastal sediment pollution -- Chapter2. Coastal flooding in India – An Overview -- Part2. Water quality/ Hydrological Processes -- Chapter3. Appraisal of coastal water quality of two hot spots on Southwest coast of India: A case study of multi-year biogeochemical observations -- Chapter4. Assessment of water quality from the Gundlakamma estuary, Andhra coast, Southeast coast of India -- Chapter5. Evaluation ofPhysico-chemical Parameters of Coastal Water from Pennar River Estuary, East Coast of India: An integrated approach -- Chapter6. Climatic variability and anthropogenic forcing on marine ecosystems: Evidence from the Lakshadweep Archipelago -- Part3. Sediment Characteristics -- Chapter7. Geochemical characterization of suspended sediments in the Nethravati estuary, southwest coast of India: insights to redox processes, metal sorption and pollution aspect -- Chapter8. Geochemical Studies of Ilmenite from Bhimunipatnam to Konada Coastal Sands, North Andhra Pradesh, East Coast of India -- Chapter9. Study of beach sand from Harihareshwar, Shrivardhan and Diveagar beach of Raigad District, Maharashtra, India -- Chapter10. Impact of Seasonal Sediment Dynamics on Beach Morphology: A case study from the Govindampalli-Durgarajupatnam Coast, East Coast of India -- Chapter11. Heavy Minerals Studies of Coastal Sands from Bavanapadu to Kalingapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, East coast of India -- Chapter12. Mineral Chemistry of Ilmenites as a source indicator for coastal sediments between Vamsadhara and Nagavali river mouth, North Coastal, Andhra Pradesh -- Chapter13. Major and trace elements in the Sediments of the Gollumutta Paya Estuary of the Krishna River, East Coast of India -- Part4. Biodiversity/ Bio-indicators/ ecological studies -- Chapter14. Assessment of Trace Metal contamination in Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778) from the coast ff South Andaman Island, India -- Chapter15. Analytical approach of Haematology in variation to physical parameters of Indian Mackerel and Yellowfin Tuna from Indian waters -- Chapter16. Geochemistry of Mollusk Shells as proxies of Marine Pollution, East coast of India -- Chapter17. Sedimentary structures of tidal flats in Recent Chandipur East Coast of Orisha, India -- Part5. Climate Change and Anthropocene -- Chapter18. Coastal Erosion Vulnerability Index: A case study for Kuwaiti Coast -- Chapter19. Total suspended matter variability in response to tropical cyclone Titli along coastal waters of southeast India using satellite observations: Implications to Climate Change -- Chapter20. Climate Change and its Impact on Depletion of Oxygen Levels on Coastal Waters and Shallow Seas -- Chapter21. Nanoparticle based bioremediation for crude oil removal from marine environment -- Part6. Socio-economic scenarios related to Sustainable Development -- Chapter22. Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Coastal Tourism of Andaman Isles, India: Sustainable Development Scenario -- Chapter23. Spatial planning for sustainable resource use with a special reference to aquaculture development -- Chapter24. Sustainable Aquaculture and Economic Development in Coastal Areas: The Case of Andhra Pradesh, India -- Chapter25. Marine and Coastal ecosystem services for Sustainable Development -- Part7. Application of Geospatial tools -- Chapter26. Advanced remote sensing methods for high-resolution, cost-effective monitoring of the coastal morphology using Video Beach Monitoring System (VBMS), CoastSnap and CoastSat techniques -- Chapter27. Coastal morpho-dynamics and Environmental variables of Ennore Creek: An Integrated approach -- Chapter28. A study on dynamics of Krishna river mouth, East coast of India: A Geospatial approach -- Chapter29. Non monsoonal coastal erosion due to the tropical cyclone (OCKHI) and it’s impacts along Thiruvananthapuram coast, Southwest coast of India - A geospatial approach .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1-Covid-19 And The Environment -- Chapter 2-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Air Quality -- Chapter 3-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Marine And Estuarine Water Quality -- Chapter 4-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Coastal Biodiversity -- Chapter 5-Impact Of Covid-19 On Livelihoods Of The Lower Gangetic Delta.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction to Advanced Technology for smart environment and Energy -- Evolving Technologies: IoT and Artificial Intelligence for environment and Energy -- Smart environment and Energy Systems -- Data Science for environment and Energy Informatics -- Robotics and Process Automation Technologies for Advanced Technology for smart Energy -- Blockchain in Energy Informatics -- Bioinformatics, smart Energy to Informatics and Analytics -- Augmented Reality in smart Energy -- Security and Privacy Solutions in smart Energy -- Image Processing in Energy -- Communication Technologies for Future Smart environment and Energy -- Wireless Body Area Networks and Smart Wearable's for environment and Energy -- Future Prospects and Applications of environment and Energy.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part 1. From Linear to Circular Economy. The Impact of Environmental Legislation on Waste Management -- Chapter 1 - The Transition from Linear to Circular Economy. The Case of Waste in European and Italian Environmental Legislation -- Chapter 2. From European Legislation to its Implementation in Italy between Past and Present -- Chapter 3. The Transition from Linear to Circular Economy Induced by Waste Management Legislation. A Shift-and-Share Analysis of European Countries and Italian Macro-Areas -- Part 2. Convergence or Divergence from the Circular Economy Objectives. What are the Causes? -- Chapter 4. The Integrated Waste Cycle in Italy and EU Countries -- Chapter 5. Convergence or Divergence in Waste Treatment Methods? The Impact of Waste Management Legislation in the Transition to the Circular Economy Model.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Interdisciplinarity, GIScience, and Socio-environmental Research in Latin America -- Chapter 2. Using Spatial Time-series and Field Data to Understand Cultural Drivers of Land Change: Connecting Land Conflict and Land Change in Eastern Amazonia -- Chapter 3. Crossing Boundaries: Transboundary Geographic Information in the Amazon Borderlands of Peru and Brazil -- Chapter 4. Territorial Implications of Economic Diversification in the Waorani Ancestral Lands -- Chapter 5. New Insights on Water Quality and Land Use Dynamics in the Napo Region of Western Amazonia -- Chapter 6. From Mapping to Guiding: An Emergent Framework for the Multiple Uses of Remote Sensing and GIScience in Socio-Environmental Research in the Peruvian Andes -- Chapter 7. The Use of Remote Sensing in Air Pollution Control and Public Health -- Chapter 8. Human-environmental Interactions and their Impacts on Temperate Forests in the Exploradores Valley in Western Patagonia -- Chapter 9. El Chaltén, Argentine Patagonia: A successful Combination of Conservation and Tourism? -- Chapter 10. GIS Approaches to Environmental Justice in Mexico’s Oil and Gas Production Zones with Implications for Latin America -- Chapter 11. Contributions to Socio-Environmental Research through Participatory GIS in Archaeology -- Chapter 12. Comparing Volunteered Data Acquisition Methods on Informal Settlements in Mexico City and São Paulo: a Citizen Participation Ladder for VGI -- Chapter 13. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Interdisciplinary GIScience Research on Human-environment Dynamics in Latin America.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Introduction: Setting the Problem(s) -- Chapter 2. Chapter 2. Integrative Technology Assessment – Proposal for a Framework -- Chapter 3. Goals – Need, Rules and Procedures -- Chapter 4. Risk Characteristics and Evolution of (Risk and Safety) Concepts -- Chapter 5. Systems, Governance and Institutions -- Chapter 6. Strategic Monitoring -- Chapter 7. Conclusions and Outlook -- Book backmatter.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Conservation, Regeneration and Development of Species-Rich Meadows in Flooded Areas in Northwestern Germany -- Chapter 2. Population Density of the Endemic Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss nelsoni) and Its Relationship with the Habitat in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico -- Chapter 3. Mayan Truffles: Notes on the Hypogeal and Subhigeal Fungi of the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico -- Chapter 4. Bioenergetic Potential of the Huizache Vachellia Farnesiana (L.) Willd -- Chapter 5. Macromycetes Associated with Three Types of Vegetation in the Municipality of Rayones, Nuevo León -- Chapter 6. Social Capital in the State of Nuevo León as a Tool for Sustainable Forest Development -- Chapter 7. Effect of High Temperatures That Simulate Climate Change in the Germination of Seven Species of the Tamaulipan Thornscrub -- Chapter 8. Presence and Importance of Mesquite Prosopis laevigata (Humb.& Bonpl. ex Willd) M.C. Johnst in Northeastern Mexico -- Chapter 9. Edible Macromycetes of Chihuahua.Diversity and Nutritional Properties -- Chapter 10. Origin and Cultural Impact of Wild Chilli Pepper (Capsicum annuum L. var. glabriusculum) in Northeastern Mexico -- Chapter 11. Diversity of Macrofungi in the Forest Ecosystems of the Cumbres National Park -- Chapter 12. Diversity Of Symbiosis Oftween Species of Macrofungi and Insects in the Temperate Forest of Iturbide, Nuevo León -- Chapter 13. Interactions Between Macrofungals and Insects via Sporocarps in Three Types of Vegetation of the Municipality of Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico -- Chapter 14. Interactions Between Macrofungals and Insects in the Oak and Pine Forest in the Municipalities of Iturbide and Galeana, Nuevo León.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Historical implementation of the Hula Drainage and followed "Hula Project" -- Chapter 2. Regional Geographical and geological system structure -- Chapter 3. Meteorology: Climate change: air temperature, precipitation, dryness and desertification trends -- Chapter 4. Hydrology: Hydrological System structure: Head waters. Valley Canals (efore and after "Hula Project, agricultural development, Agmon-Hula, River Discharge, Runoff, Subterranean flows, Ground water Table, the impact of seasonal and multi-annual fluctuations of climate change on Hula Valley water balance -- Chapter 5. Nutrients: Water quality in River discharges, Hula Valley canals, and underground flows; the impact of Hula Valley on Nutrient inputs into Lake Knneret through Jordan River, Seasonal and long term fluctuations, the impact of climate change on nutrients dynamic -- Chapter 6. Agricultural management in the Hula valley: Crops diversity, irrigation policy, prevention of soil deterioration and linkage with touristic function maintenance -- Chapter 7. The Peat- Soil Convention: Conceptual and practical implementation: prevention of soil deterioration by moisture level control -- Chapter 8. The Agmon-Hula system: The impact of Agmon-Hula system on Nutrients removal from the Kinneret loads, Agmon water and nutrient balances, plants and birds distribution -- Chapter 9. Eco-tourism and ecological management of the the Hula Project: The Crane Case: Tourism-agricultural linkage -- Chapter 10. Conclusions and future perspectives of management.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction: Lake Urmia – A Hypersaline Waterbody in a Drying Climate -- Seasonal Variation of Evaporation from Hypersaline Basin of the Urmia Lake -- Sediment distribution pattern in Lake Urmia -- The Vanishing of Urmia Lake: A Geolimnological Perspective on the Hydrological Imbalance of the World’s Second Largest Hypersaline Lake -- Modelling Biogeochemical and Physicochemical Regime Changes During the Drying Period of Lake Urmia -- A Review of Tectonics and Seismotectonics of Urmia Lake, NW Iran -- Local Changes in Meteorological Parameters Caused by Desiccation of the Lake Urmia -- Analysis of the Long-Term Trend of Temperature, Precipitation, and Dominant Atmospheric Phenomena in Lake Urmia -- Hydroclimate of the Lake Urmia Catchment Area: A Brief Overview -- Global and Regional Signals in the Water Level Variation in hypersaline Basin of the Lake Urmia -- Comparative Study of the Major Ion Composition in Eurasian Salt Lakes: Lake Urmia, Lake Issyk-Kul, Aral Sea, and Dead Sea -- Hydro-Meteorological Observations in Hypersaline Basin of Lake Urmia -- Lake Urmia Brine Evolution from 2007 to 2019 -- Salt load impact on Lake Urmia basin volume -- How Climate Change and Human Interaction Alter Chemical Regime in Salt Lakes, Case Study: Lake Urmia, Aral Sea, the Dead Sea, and Lake Issyk-Kul -- Modelling Physical and Chemical Processes of the Hypersaline Lake Urmia: Water Level Decline and Restoration by Water Conveyance -- Conclusion.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: A Practical Urban Habitat for Living in the Extreme Drought Conditions of the Future, Using Advanced Wastewater Recycling Technologies -- Risk assessment of green reuse of abandoned industrial buildings#A case of steel mill -- Adaptation of plant ecosystems to rapid climate change in the Ural region: Carbon fields - the most important arena for assessing climate change in the Urals -- The Healing world from 2020 onwards -- Climate Determinants of Health -- Pedestrian conditions from a climate change vulnerability perspective in low income communities -- Effects of climate change on human security and sustainable -- Role of Value Orientation and Belief in shaping Indian Pre-Service Teachers' Personal Norms to address Climate Change -- Urban energy consumption in the City of Naples (Italy): a geographically weighted regression approach -- Mechanical Properties and Impact Resistance of Steel Fiber Reinforced Fly Ash and Nanosilica Concrete -- Nonintrusive Load Monitoring System for Decarbonization of Built Environment Based on Deep Learning Algorithm -- Sustainable Renovation on Aosta Residential Building for Carbon Neutrality -- Sensitivity Analysis Using Standardized Regression Coefficients of Roof Design Variables for Energy Performance in Residential Buildings -- Study on the Effect of Adding Biochar to Green Roof Substrate on Carbon Dioxide Reduction -- Features of ESG risk management in the implementation of megaprojects: the Belt and Road Initiative -- Informatic analysis and review of literature on the optimum selection of sustainable materials used in construction projects -- Assessing air pollutant distribution and its influencing factors in the urban street canyon environments -- Sustainability, and Post-Covid 19 Era: Changing Housing Design and Models in the Cities and Istanbul.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter1. Nitrogen fertilizer application techniques to reduce nitrous oxide emissions -- Chapter2. Rice production technologies in reducing methane gas emissions for sustainable environment -- Chapter3. Manure management to reduce methane emissions -- Chapter4. Crop residue incorporation to enhance soil health in the rice-wheat system -- Chapter5. Promoting energy crops to replace fossil fuel use -- Chapter6. Changes in the agriculture sector that are essential to mitigate and adapt to climate changes -- Chapter7. Adaptation and Maladaptation to Climate Change: Farmers’ Perceptions -- Chapter8. Farmers' Perception of Climate Change in Climatically Vulnerable Ecosystem of Bangladesh -- Chapter9. Pest and disease management under changing climate -- Chapter10. Climate change adaptation through agroforestry: Empirical evidence from Indian Eastern Himalayan foothills -- Chapter11. Policy framework to introduce climate smart agriculture -- Chapter12. Technological and Managerial Innovation in Agriculture to Ensure Food Security under climate change -- Chapter13. Agricultural Management for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Oyster Farming and a Worldwide Referendum on Global Carbon Fee-and-Dividend -- Chapter14. Climate change impact modeling on citrus yield -- Chapter15. Impact of climate change on insecticide residues and potential ecological effects.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Assessment of Water Consumers Literacy -- Machine learning applications in sustainable water resource management: A systematic review -- Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Applications for the Assessment of Urban Water Stress: A Review -- Role of Artificial Intelligence in Water Conservation with special reference to India -- Remote sensing and GIS based techniques for monitoring and conserving water on newly developed farmlands -- A Comprehensive Review on Mapping of Groundwater Potential Zones: Past, present and future recommendations -- Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing in deciphering groundwater potential zones -- Remote Sensing & GIS based monitoring and management of coastal aquifers and ecosystem -- Hydrogeomorphological mapping of groundwater potential zones using multi-influence factor (MIF) and GIS techniques: A case study of Vishav watershed, western Himalayas -- GIS-based disaster risk analysis of floods using certainty factor (CF) and its ensemble with deep learning neural network (DLNN): A case study of Dima Hasao district of Assam -- Geospatial and Analytical Hierarchical Techniques to assess the groundwater potential areas in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu -- Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Mapping Groundwater Potential Zones through Fuzzy Integration in Kodavanar Watershed, A part of Amaravathi Basin, Tamil Nadu -- Morphometric analysis using geospatial techniques in the Pandameru River Basin, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India -- Ground Water Quality assessment using Water Quality Index and Geographical Information System of Mogamureru River Basin, Y.S.R. District, A.P., India -- Using Geo-spatial Technologies for Land and Water Resource Development Planning: A Case Study of Tirora Tehsil, India -- Delineation of Seawater Intrusion into freshwater aquifers by using VES & GIS in the Kakinada Region, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India -- . Systematic approach of groundwater resources assessment using remote sensing and multi-influence factor (MIF) techniques in Medchal Mandal, Telangana State, India -- Remote sensing snd GIS Application for Rainwater Harvesting and Groundwater Recharge to Secure Sustainable Groundwater Future of Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajamahendravaram, India.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Do We Cover Interpretation, Critical Review and Reporting in one Volume -- Chapter 2. Scientific Outline of Interpretation -- Chapter 3. Data Quality Analysis as Part of Interpretation -- Chapter 4. Quality Assurance by International Standards: the ‘Critical Review’ -- Chapter 5. Critical Review Versus Verification: Similarities and Differences -- Chapter 6. Benefits from Critical Review and Communication -- Chapter 7. Cost-Benefit-analysis of Critical Review: learning from Practice -- Chapter 8. Reporting and Communication.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: An Overview of World Deserts with Special Reference to Thar Desert -- People and Culture of the Thar Desert -- Shift in Land Use Pattern of Thar Desert -- Land and Water Resource Management in the Thar Desert Region -- Crop Production Practices in the Thar Desert Region of Rajasthan -- Livestock and its Management Practices in Thar Desert, Rajasthan -- Arid Agroforestry for Thar Desert -- Soil Conservation and Water Harvesting for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid Regions -- Community Land Management in the Thar Desert -- Women Empowerment in Thar Desert Region -- Livelihood Opportunities in the Thar Region -- Potential Agri-Business in the Thar Desert -- Multidimensional Development in Thar Desert Region of Rajasthan -- Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Thar Desert-Way Ahead. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter1. GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Identifying Rainwater Harvesting Structures Sites in a Semi-Arid River Basin -- Chapter2. Hydrochemical Investigation and Water Quality Mapping in and around Pallikarnai Marsh Land Area in Chennai, India -- Chapter3. Catchment Scale Modeling of Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics -- Chapter4. Urban Floods: A Case Study of Patna Floods 2019, Natural or Anthropogenic?- Chapter5. Flood Susceptibility Zonation using Dempster-Shafer Evidential Belief Function (EBF) Method in Chalakudy Taluk, Kerala, India -- Chapter6. Impact of Urbanization on Ganga River Basin: An Overview in the Context of Natural Surface Water Resources -- Chapter7. Urban Water Scarcity: A Global Challenge and Impending Solutions -- Chapter8. Groundwater Scarcity in Urban Areas is a Major Issue - Case Studies from West Bengal -- Chapter9. Impact of Urbanization and River Morphology on Groundwater System in Patna Urban Area, Bihar, India -- Chapter10. Aquifer Storage and Recovery: Key Issues and Feasibility -- Chapter11. Temporal Prediction of Groundwater Levels: A Gap in Generalization -- Chapter12. Suitability of Groundwater for Drinking and Agricultural Use in Patna District, Bihar, India -- Chapter13. Groundwater Potential Assessment using GIS-based Weighted Linear Combination Technique: A Case Study of Hard Rock Terrain around Bhopal, India -- Chapter14. The Effect of Urbanization on Groundwater Quality and Hydrochemical Characteristics in Ennore Coastal Aquifers of Chennai, South India -- Chapter15. Groundwater Contamination in Parts of Northwestern Hyderabad- A Hydrogeochemical and Geospatial Approach -- Chapter16. Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Groundwater Recharge in Dras Sub-Basin of Upper Indus River Basin, Western Himalayas -- Chapter17. Impact of Urbanization on Groundwater in Changing Climatic Scenario: A Case Study.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-Historical perspectives of the wetlands with special reference to geomorphic evolution of East Kolkata Wetlands -- Chapter 3-Underlying ecological principles for the functioning of Wetland Ecosystems -- Chapter 4-Basics of Remote Sensing Techniques applicable in the aquatic freshwater system: Classificatory Approaches of East Kolkata Wetlands -- Chapter 5-Biodiversity of East Kolkata wetlands: Concept of biodiversity -- Chapter 6-Ecosystem services and values of Wetlands (East Kolkata Wetlands). Chapter 7-Seasonal Dynamics of Physico-Chemical Parameters of Soil and Water -- Chapter 8-Threats and pollution of wetlands: Special reference to East Kolkata Wetland (E.K.W) -- Chapter 9-Biomonitoring and Bioremediation -- Chapter 10-Sustainable conservation strategy (Waste Water Recycling) -- Chapter 11-Conclusion.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Introduction – Social Dimension of Circular Economy, step forward or step back? -- Chapter 2. A Systems Perspective on Social Indicators for Circular Supply Chains -- Chapter 3. The Relation Between Social Inclusion and Circular Economy Performance: An Analysis of Circular Economy Social Practices and Their Contributions to The Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 4. Business models supported by circular economy principles and practices for the fruit and vegetable sector: an analysis from the perspective of social inclusion of family farmers -- Chapter 5. Fighting Hunger and Educating Farmers with Regenerative Agriculture in Maputo’s Green Horticultural Belt -- Chapter 6. Partnerships for Transitions from Open-air Markets to Circular Smart Food Markets in Kenya -- Chapter 7. Implementation of urban organic waste collection and treatment system in a Brazilian municipality: an analysis based on a socio-technical transition theory -- Chapter 8. The significance of SDG 16 ‘Strong Institutions’ towards the adoption of circular economy approaches for artisanal and small-scale mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 9. How effective are Circular Models at delivering a sustainable trifactor: a focus on social inclusion? -- Chapter 10. Dirty Work/Decent Work: (De)stigmatization of Sachet Water Plastic Waste Picking in Ghana’s Circular Economy -- Chapter 11. Improving Gender Equality with Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Economy: A Mexican Case -- Chapter 12. Strategies for social inclusion in Circular Economy -- Chapter 13. Circular Economy and Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 7: the case of the PlastiCity ecosystem -- Chapter 14. Wrap-Up: Equitable Circular Economy, nesting the social dimension in the Circular Economy. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Towards adaptive planning of urban spaces in the context of a new agile urbanism -- A Study of Urban Size Control in the Japanese Understanding of Garden Cities in the Early 1900s -- Energy Efficiency and Building's Envelope: An Integrated Approach to High-Performance Architecture -- Mapping Social Cohesion and Identity in Intercultural Public Spaces: The Case of Germantown -- The Power of Long-Term Residents in Consensus Building for Reconstruction of the Housing Complex area: Case study on Tama City, Tokyo -- Urban regeneration through Climate Adaptive Design for the Mediterranean area -- Understanding Place Attachment Process Through Instagram Narratives and Imagery of Historic Urban Places -- Future Study of Regional Spatial Structure in Iran (Horizon 2040) -- Istanbul: The Ecology, Nature and Disasters Designing Future Cities With Innovative Housing Projects -- City-effect: new centralities in post-pandemic regional metropolis Pescara-Chieti -- Compactness as a Condition, Compaction as an Ambition - Potentials and Pitfalls of an Interdisciplinary Global Debate on the Compact City.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction -- Freezing of lakes -- Structure and properties of lake ice -- Thermodynamics of Seasonal lake ice -- Mechanics of lake ice -- Proglacial lakes -- Lake Water Body in the Ice Season -- Ice-Covered Lakes Environment -- Lake ice Climatology -- Future of frozen lakes -- Annex: Ice Properties and Useful Formulae -- References -- Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Sustainable utilization of wastewater: an overview -- Chapter 2. Productions of Bioenergy from Wastewater -- Chapter 3. Production of Biogas from wastewater -- Chapter 4. Various treatment technology for generation of Biogas -- Chapter 5. Biohydrogen production from wastewater -- Chapter 6. Various treatment technologies for the generation of biohydrogen from sludge and wastewater -- Chapter 7. Lipid biomass to Biodiesel -- Chapter 8. Biopolymers from wastewater -- Chapter 9. Recovery of nutrients from wastewater -- Chapter 10. Recovery of various metals from wastewater -- Chapter 11. Resource recovery from wastewater -- 12. Biofertilizers from wastewater -- Chapter 13. Microbial fuel cell and wastewater treatment -- Chapter 14. Various applications of Sludge as resources -- Chapter 15. Future research on the sustainable utilization of wastewater as resources -- Chapter 16. Aerobic treatment of high-strength ammonium wastewater-nitrogen removal via nitrate -- Chapter 17. Thermophilic aerobic biological wastewater treatment -- Chapter 18. Aerobic treatment of winery wastewater using jet-loop activated sludge reactor -- Chapter 19. Advancements in the application of aerobic granular biomass technology for sustainable treatment of wastewater.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part 1: Background and Setting -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Simi Kamal) -- Chapter 2: Water Resource Potential: Status and Overview (Mohsin Hafeez and Muhammad Arshad) -- Chapter 3: Water Supply and Demand: National and Regional Trends (Shahid Ahmad and Ghufran Ahmad) -- Chapter 4: Water Infrastructure and Institutional Setting (from Chapter 8) (Muhammad Arshad and Fahad Amjad) -- Chapter 5:Political Economy of Water (Erum Sattar) -- Part 2. Sectoral Specific Issues -- Chapter 6: Water and Agriculture – a major area of water policy reforms (Kalim Qamar, Robina Wahaj, Asif Sharif and Mahmood Ahmad) -- Chapter 7: Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation (Naseer Ahmad, and Mitsuo Yoshida) -- Chapter 8: Water Storage and Hydropower (Daud Ahmad and Aslam Rasheed) -- Part 3. Sector-wide Issues -- Chapter 9: Water Pricing, Demand Management, and Allocative Efficiency (Mahmood Ahmad and Ahsan Tayyab) -- Chapter 10: Groundwater Overexploitation and Water Mismanagement (Sanval Nasim) -- Chapter 11: Water Quality and Salinity (Muhammad Abid Bodla, Mohammad Ashraf and Vaqar Zakaria) -- Part 4. Regional. International and Future Issues -- Chapter 12: Wastewater treatment in Pakistan: Issue, challenges and solution (Fozia Parveen, and Sher Jamal Khan) -- Chapter 13: Water Treaties: National and international (Azeem Shah, Erum Sattar) -- Chapter 14: Water and Climate Change: A New Challenge (Asif Khan , Muhammad Zia-ur-Rahman Hashmi and Aisha Khan) -- Chapter 15: Developing knowledge-based capacity for resource management and service delivery (Skill, Information, and Technology-based Resource Management and Service Delivery) (Abubakr Muhammad and James Wescoat) -- Part 5. Looking Ahead -- Chapter 16: Toward Secure Water Future: Timeframe and Strategies (Mahmood Ahmad , Abubakr Muhammad and Ahsan Tayyab ). .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Water as key resource in Circular Economy -- Impact Of Climate Change on Water Status: Challenges and Emerging Solutions -- Integrated Water Management - Directions of Activities and Policies -- Circular Water Management in Smart Cities -- The Influence of Mineral Parameters on the Geochemistry of Heavy Metals in Bottom Sediments -- Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture - Circular Economy Approach -- Innovative Solutions in the Transition to Circular Economy in Water Sector -- Advanced Treatment Technologies in Removal of Pollutants from Water and Wastewater -- The Role of Water Recycling in Building a Circular Economy in the Textile Industry -- The Role of Water Recycling in Building a Circular Economy in the Textile Industry -- Preliminary Microbiological Risk Assessment for Local Water Reuse in a Small MBR Waste Water Treatment Plant -- Can Remote Sensing be a Useful Tool to Increase Water Reuse in Agriculture? -- Nutrients Recovery in Water and Wastewater Sector -- Technologies for Nutrient Recovery From Municipal Wastewater -- Circular Economy in Domestic and Industrial Waste Waters: Challenges and Opportunities -- Monitoring of Circular Economy Implementation in Water Sector -- Water Footprint of Business and Circular Economy -- Economic, Social and Environmental Dimensions in the Circular Economy (CE) Monitoring Framework in Water and Wastewater Sector -- Circular Economy Indicators and Measures in Water and Wastewater Sector – Case Study -- Business Opportunities in Water and Wastewater Sector as a Part of the Resolve Framework -- Circular Economy Implementation in the Water Sector: Wastewater Treatment Plant Tychy-Urbanowice Case Study -- Wastewater-Based Circular Economy Operations in East Kolkata Wetlands (The Largest Ramasar Site in South Asia), India.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I: Introduction And Context -- Chapter 1: Introduction And Context -- Part II: Case Studies -- Chapter 2: Kenya Case Study One -- Chapter 3: Guatemala Case Study -- Chapter 4: Ghana Case Study One -- Chapter 5: Pacific Island Case Study -- Chapter 6: Saudi Arabia Case Study -- Chapter 7: Philippines Case Study One -- Chapter 8: Kenya Case Study Two -- Chapter 9: Tanzania Case Study -- Chapter 10: Indonesia Case Study -- Chapter 11: Panama Case Study -- Chapter 12: Philippines Case Study Two -- Chapter 13: Bangladesh Case Study -- Chapter 14: Ghana Case Study Two -- Chapter 15: Ecuador Case Study -- Chapter 16: Thailand Case Study -- Chapter 17: Peru Case Study -- Part III: Evaluation And Synopsis -- Chapter 18: Evaluation And Synopsis.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction to Fig (Ficus carica): Production, Processing, and Properties -- Section 1. Fig (Ficus carica): Cultivation, species, and cultivars -- Figs in Morocco: Diversity patterns, valorization pathways and chain value resilience -- Fig tree genome and diversity -- Genetic diversity of fig varieties -- Bud structure and evolution -- Phenotypic variability of fig (Ficus carica) -- Morpho-chemical Characteristics Useful in the Identification of Fig (Ficus carica L.) Germplasm -- Agronomic strategies for fig cultivation in a temperate-humid climate zone -- Cultivars and agricultural practices of fig (Ficus carica) -- Physiological behaviour of fig tree (Ficus carica L.) under different climatic conditions -- Fig (Ficus carica) production and yield -- Defense mechanism of fig (Ficus carica) against biotic stresses: An advanced role model under Moraceae -- Section 2: Fig (Ficus carica): Chemistry, functionality and health-promoting properties -- Chemistry and nutritional value of fresh and dried fig (Ficus carica) -- Fig seeds: source of value-added oil within the scope of circular economy -- Fig (Ficus carica) leaves: composition and functional properties -- Fig (Ficus carica) oil -- Composition and functional properties of fig (Ficus carica) phenolics -- Phenolic compounds of Fresh and dried fig: Characterization and health effects -- Ficus carica L. as a source of natural bioactive flavonoids -- Fig (Ficus carica) minerals -- Bioactive compounds of fig (Ficus carica) -- Fig volatiles -- Fig Enzymes: Characterization, Biological Roles, and Applications -- Preventive roles of phytochemicals from Ficus carica in Diabetes and its secondary complications -- Composition and health-promoting effects of fig (Ficus carica) extracts -- Genotoxic and antimutagenic activity of Ficus carica extracts -- Composition and biological activities of Ficus carica latex -- Extraction and analysis of polyphenolic compounds in Ficus carica L. -- Section 3: Fig (Ficus carica): Technology, processing, and applications -- Fig drying technologies -- Chemistry and functionality of processed fig -- Fig Syrup as a natural sugar substitute -- Fig shelf life -- Use of proteolytic activity of Ficus carica in milk coagulation.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. A brief history of phytoremediation using wetlands (Marinus L. Otte) -- Chapter 2. Phytoremediation using tropical wetlands: Are temperate treatment wetlands sound models? (Daniel Campbell) -- Chapter 3. Tropical and subtropical plant species used for phytoremediation in treatment wetlands (Hernán Ricardo Hadad) -- Chapter 4. Wetlands for bioremediation in Pakistan (Muhammad Afzal) -- Chapter 5. Urban wetlands in the tropics – Taiwan as an example (Wei-Ta Fang) -- Chapter 6. Treatment of urban stormwater through constructed wetlands – experiences and practical guidance for tropical and non-tropical settings (Swapan Paul) -- Chapter 7. Phytoremediation of agricultural pollutants in the Tropics (Megan L. Murray) -- Chapter 8. Wetlands to treat mining tailings in the Tropics of Central and South America (Aurora M. Pat-Espadas) -- Chapter 9. Bioremediation and biofuel production using microalgae (Wei-Ta Fang) -- Chapter 10. Wetlands for remediation in Africa: Threats and opportunities (Oscar Omondi Donde) -- Chapter 11. Cost and benefits of treatment wetlands in the Tropics (Marco A. Rodríguez-Domínguez).

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Introduction to Construction and Demolition Debris -- Chapter 2. Construction Materials and their Properties -- Chapter 3. CDD Composition -- Chapter 4. Generation -- Chapter 5. Hazardous and Dangerous Materials in CDD -- Chapter 6. CDD Recycling Approaches and Policies -- Chapter 7. Processing CDD for Recycling -- Chapter 8. Markets for Materials Recovered from CDD -- Chapter 9. CDD Landfills -- Chapter 10. Managing Disaster Debris -- Chapter 11. Sustainable Construction Materials Management.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. The future of food from the sea -- Chapter 2.The Expected Impacts of Climate Change on the Ocean Economy -- Chapter 3. What Role for Ocean-Based Renewable Energy and Deep-Seabed Minerals in a Sustainalble Future? -- Chapter 4. The Ocean Genome: Conservation and the Fair, Equitable and Sustainable Use of Marine Genetic Resources -- Chapter 5. Leveraging Multi-Target Strategies to Address Plastic Pollution in the Context of an Already Stressed Ocean -- Chapter 6. Technology, Data and New Models for Sustainably Managing Ocean Resources -- Chapter 7. Coastal Development: Resilience, Restoration and Infrastructure Requirements -- Chapter 8. National Accounting for the Ocean and Ocean Economy -- Chapter 9. Ocean Finance -- Chapter 10. Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Threshold and Governance -- Chapter 11. The Human Relationship with Our Ocean Planet -- Chapter 12. The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions -- Chapter 13. Towards Ocean Equity -- Chapter 14. Integrated Ocean Management -- Chapter 15. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers -- Chapter 16. Organised Crime Associated with Fisheries -- Chapter 17. The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action -- Chapter 18. A Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050: Approximating Its Benefits and Costs -- Chapter 19. A Sustainable & Equitable Blue Recovery to the COVID-19 Crisis -- Chapter 20. Ocean Solutions That Benefit People, Nature and the Economy -- Chapter 21. Transformations for a Sustainable Ocean Economy: A Vision for Protection, Production and Prosperity.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Everything it must be known about the relation of gluten to human health -- Raw materials. Traditional and non-conventional cereals, pseudo-cereals, oilseeds and legumes -- Non-cereals starch resources -- Use of additives in gluten-free formulations -- Fermented gluten-free baked goods -- Gluten free non-fermented bakery -- Gluten free edible films, coatings, and toppings -- Gluten free pasta production and formulation design -- Sensory analysis tools in developing gluten-free bakery and pasta products and their quality control -- Regulation and labelling. Methods of analysis for the determination of gluten in foods.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction to Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum): Production, Processing, and Properties -- Section 1. Cardamom: Cultivation, species, and cultivars -- Cultivation and agricultural practices of cardamom -- Cardamom botany, cultivars, and genetic diversity -- Plant morphological traits of cardamom -- Viral Diseases of Cardamom -- Cardamom wild genotypes -- Section 2. Cardamom: Chemistry, functionality and health-promoting properties -- Composition and functional properties of cardamom seeds -- Composition and functional properties of cardamom essential oil -- Composition and functional properties of cardamom fixed oil -- Health aspects of true cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum): clinical evidence and proposed mechanism -- Health-promoting effects of cardamom -- Composition and functional properties of cardamom leaves -- Chemistry and functionality of black cardamom (Amomum subulatum) -- Section 3. Cardamom: Technology, processing, and applications -- Effect of processing on cardamom composition and properties -- Cardamom-based beverages -- Cardamom-based phytosomes -- Cardamom Safety -- Cardamom in food applications -- Encapsulation of cardamom extract -- Cardamom oleoresin -- Non-food applications of cardamom. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Agro-biodiversity across the food chain -- 2. Emerging risks to plant health -- 3. Future-proofing Plants against Climate Change- A path to ensure Sustainable Food Systems -- 4. The role of Integrated Pest Management for sustainable food production: The soybean example -- 5. (Alternative approaches to pesticide use): Plant-derived pesticides -- 6. Antimicrobial use in animal food production -- 7. Impacts of environment-friendly unit operations on the functional properties of bee pollen -- 8. Microbiome applications for sustainable food systems -- 9. Healthier and sustainable food systems: integrating underutilized crops in a ‘Theory of Change Approach -- 10. Alternative proteins for food and feed.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Tropical Marine Environments of Brazil and their Responses to Climate Change(JML Dominguez) -- Chapter 2. The wave-dominated deltas of Brazil: quaternary evolution, current status and vulnerability to climate changes(JML Dominguez) -- Chapter 3. The Reef formations of the western tropical South Atlantic Ocean: distribution, current status and impact of climate changes(R Kikuchi) -- Chapter 4. Geodiversity and Biodiversity of the narrow, shallow tropical shelves of northeastern Brazil(H. Vital) -- Chapter 5. Diversity and trophic structure of pelagic ecosystems in the western tropical Atlantic(R Schwamborn) -- Chapter 6. Circulation, biogeochemical cycles and CO2 flux variability in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean(M Araújo).

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Characteristics of Brazilian Coastal Zone -- 2. Flora: mycrophytobenthos and phytoplankton -- 3. Meiofauna patterns of meiofauna on sandy beaches: abundance, diversity -- 4. Macrobenthic communities: abundance, diversity, spatial and temporal distribution -- 5. Nekton biodiversity -- 6. Secondary production of sandy beach macrofauna -- 7. Population biology of sandy beach macrofauna -- 8. Biological interactions Goods and services Threats and impacts -- 9. Management and conservation -- Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: General over view of composition, use in human nutrition, process of sprouting, change in composition during sprouting, parameters affecting nutritional quality during sprouting, benefits of sprouts, nutritional value and food safety issues of cereal/pseudo cereal sprouts -- Barley sprouts -- Buckwheat sprouts -- Brown rice sprouts -- Amaranth and Quinoa sprouts -- Kamut and Oat sprouts -- Sprouted Legumes: Biochemical Changes, Nutritional Impacts and Food Safety Concerns -- Kidney Bean and Lentil Sprouts -- Clover and Alfalfa sprouts -- Pea, Chickpea and Black-eyed pea sprouts -- Mung bean and Adzuki bean sprouts -- Soybean sprouts -- An overview of Brassica Sprouts -- Broccoli and Cress sprouts -- Cabbage & Red cabbage sprouts -- Radish sprouts and Mustard green sprouts -- General over view of composition, use in human nutrition, process of sprouting, change in composition during sprouting, parameters affecting nutritional quality during sprouting, benefits of sprouts, nutritional value and food safety issues of allium sprouts -- Onion sprouts -- Garlic & Leek sprouts.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1: Brief account on the history and conceptual evolution of nutrition security: Past, Present and Future -- Part I: Traditional Foods and Biodiversity to Achieve Nutrition Security -- chapter 2: Traditional Foods and Foods with a Tradition: it’s not the same -- Chapter 3: Traditional foods and associated Indigenous Knowledge Systems and its role in nutrition security in Mongolia -- Chapter 4: Current status of edible insects in the context of dietary transition in Western French Africa: A case study from Benin -- Chapter 5: The decline of Agrobiodiversity: the process of crop improvement, consequent homogenization, and aftermath -- Chapter 6: Aquaculture: Contributions to Global Food Security -- Part II: Environmental Concern and Food Safety -- Chapter 7: Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry and Horticulture Based Farming Systems: Mitigating climate change and advancing food and nutrition security -- Chapter 8: Pesticide residue and food safety: Retrospection and prospects -- Part III: Biotechnological Advancement and Sustainable Nutrition Security -- Chapter 9: Plant breeding strategies and methods for Food Security: Review on the Technology -- Chapter 10: Crop Breeding and Biotechnological Advances towards Nutrition and Environment Security -- Part IV: Micronutrient Concern -- Chapter 11: The Micronutrient Zinc in Human Health and Disease -- Part V: Functional Foods -- Chapter 13: Functional food in promoting health: Global perspective -- Chapter 14: Medicinal properties of traditional foods and associated indigenous knowledge system: A case study of the Himalayan region, India -- Chapter 15: Ayurveda and Traditional foods to supplement nutrition in India.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Laboratory management and ISO 17025:2017 -- Essential for Quality management in testing laboratories -- Preparing for analysis: the analytical method -- Statistics for the Quality Control Laboratory -- Uncertainty measurement -- Control Charts and Process capability -- Risk Management.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SECTION I – IN THE BEGINNING -- CHAPTER 1. WADING IN ̶ INTRODUCTION TO THE FISH-BIRD -- General Discussion of Penguins and Substance of the Book -- An Impressive Number of Penguin Species: Evolution of Their Unique Capabilities -- Penguin Species Radiation and the Ontogeny of Their Watery World -- Penguin Evolution: Body Size and Climate -- Penguin Evolution: Radiation into Vacant Niches -- Penguin Evolution: Body Size and Crossing the Sea-Land Boundary -- CHAPTER 2. LAND AHOY! A TIRESOME BUSINESS -- Crossing the Land-Ocean Interface is Affected by Body Size -- Why and How Often do Penguins Come Ashore? -- Tying Land-life to the At-sea Life of Fish-Birds: Foraging and Breeding -- Success Vary with Prey Availability -- Molt ̶Necessary, Brief Respite from the Sea -- SECTION II – PENGUIN MARINE HAUNTS AND FOOD HABITS -- CHAPTER 3.FISH-BIRDS AT HOME IN THEIR OCEAN HABITATS -- Oceanographic Fronts and Water Masses Important to Penguins: General Discussion -- Penguins Require High Productivity Water Masses -- Large Scale: Oceanographic Boundaries and At-sea Distributions of Penguins -- Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current -- Emperor and King penguins -- Adélie and Chinstrap penguins -- Antarctic Polar Front and Subantarctic Front -- Gentoo and Yellow-eyed penguins -- Macaroni and Royal penguins -- Northern and Southern Rockhopper, Fiordland, Snares penguins -- Subtropical Front and Continental Boundary Currents -- Galápagos, Humboldt, Magellanic, African penguins -- Little penguins -- Meso- and Small-Scale Ocean Processes Facilitating Penguin Exploits -- Island wakes -- Headland wakes -- Shelves and banks -- Submarine canyons -- Shelfbreak fronts -- Marginal ice zones -- Thermo-/haloclines -- CHAPTER 4. SEA FOOD ̶ THE FISH-BIRD MENU -- General Considerations -- Diet Quality: Survival in Cold Water -- Energy density of prey -- Prey size may or may not differ by penguin size -- Prey availability -- Diet Comparison among Penguin Species -- Polar/subpolar, mesopelagic penguins -- Subpolar, demersal/benthic, continental-shelf penguins -- Temperate, upper water column, continental-insular shelf penguins -- Polar, upper water column, continental shelf/slope penguins -- Subpolar, upper water column, continental slope/pelagic penguins -- Polar, upper water column, continental slope/pelagic penguins -- CHAPTER 5. ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF DIET COMPOSITION -- Intraspecific Competition among Penguins -- Foraging Range is Key: General Discussion -- Penguin Species’ Central-Place Foraging Range Patterns -- Sex Differences in Foraging -- Interspecific Competition Involving Penguins -- Penguins Eat A lot! -- Competition between Penguin Species -- Competition between penguins and other seabirds -- Competition between penguins and marine mammals -- Competition between penguins and industrial fisheries -- SECTION III – THE HARDWARE OF A FISH-BIRD -- CHAPTER 6. THE SLIPPERY SHAPE, HOT AIR AND THE POWERHOUSE – HOW FISH-BIRDS SWIM -- Water – Hard Taskmaster -- The Four Forces Relevant to Penguins -- Vertical Forces – Weight and Upthrust -- Buoyancy: How Much Air Do Penguins Hold? -- Buoyancy and Bergmann’s Rule revisited -- Horizontal Forces: Drag -- The Interplay of Drag and Upthrust in Gliding Penguins -- The Drag Devil is in the Detail -- The Penguin Powerhouse -- How Penguins Swim -- The Effect of Upthrust and Body Angle on Penguin Thrust and Lift Forces -- Top Speeds; Power and Upthrust -- The Energy Costs of Swimming -- General considerations -- Specific considerations -- ’Sensible’ Swim Strategies and Costs of Transport -- Cruising speed and integrating speed with the cost of transport, -- and beyond -- CHAPTER 7. HOT PENGUINS ̶ COLD WATER -- Resting and Floating Penguins -- The Metabolic Rate of Floating Penguins -- Patterns of Heat Loss to the Sea -- Overall Body Insulation/Conductance -- The Nature of Penguin Insulation -- Active Penguins -- Activity Produces Heat -- Greater Depths Impose a Higher Heat Tax -- Consuming Prey Imposes a Heat Tax -- Embracing The Fish in the Fish-bird -- CHAPTER 8. FISH-BIRDS – THE INSIDE STORY -- Diving Physiology -- Surface issues – Uptake of oxygen -- Oxygen Management Underwater -- Role of the Air Spaces -- Gas Exchange to Body Tissues -- The Aerobic Dive Limit and Beyond -- The Importance of Size in Dive Performance -- Duration -- Depth -- Penguins Under Pressure – Beating the Squeeze and the Bends -- Barotrauma -- Beating the Bends -- A Gut Reaction in Fish-Birds -- Gastric Emptying -- Rotting Food -- The Eyes Have It -- SECTION IV – THE SOFTWARE OF FISH-BIRDS -- CHAPTER 9. EMBRACING THE DEPTHS - THE PENGUIN DIVE -- Submergence -- The time underwater – basic dive descriptors -- Dive profiles -- Dive distance-depth profiles -- Dive aspect ratios -- Horizontal dive directionality/tortuosity -- The Multifunctionality of Dives -- Basic dive types -- T-dives for travelling -- V-dives (water column assessment) -- P-dives (parabolic – prospecting with no prey capture) -- Po-dives (parabolic dives with circular trajectory) -- U-dives (depth-directed prospecting) -- W-dives/Up-dives (U-dives with prey pursuit) -- Depth Duration Effects Over Multiple Dives -- CHAPTER 10. FISH-BIRD STRATEGIES ̶ THE SEARCH FOR FICKLE PREY -- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions – How Fish-Birds Search for Prey -- Heading in the Right Direction -- Dealing with Prey Patchiness -- In-depth Considerations: -- Time-based efficiency -- Energy-based efficiency -- Superficial Considerations: Surface Pauses and Inspired Tactics -- Being Picky about Food -- Fish-Birds and Smart Strategies -- CHAPTER 11. THE FINAL SECONDS – HOW FISH-BIRDS CAPTURE PREY -- Prey Acquisition, a Departure from the Dive ‘Norm’ -- Performance Metrics for Prey Capture -- Catching Solitary Prey -- Changing buoyancy with depth affects prey capture strategies -- Prey pursuit against interfaces -- Exploiting Aggregated Prey -- Crustaceans -- Fish -- Non-corralling feeding behavior -- Clarity on Limitations of Penguin Vision -- SECTION V – PENGUINS IN A FICKLE ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 12. TURNING THE TABLES – FISH-BIRDS ON THE MENU -- Basic Law of the Sea: Big Fish Eat Little Fish -- Seals as Predators -- Seals’ hunting behavior -- Penguins avoiding seals -- Fur Seals as Predators -- Sea Lions as Predators -- Killer Whales as Predators -- Sharks as Predators -- CHAPTER 13. PENGUINS ADJUSTING TO A CHANGING OCEAN -- Penguins Have Always Been Challenged by a Changing Ocean -- Prehistoric response to a changing ocean -- Possible prehistoric changes to penguins’ food web -- The Anthropocene: How will Penguins Cope, Now Also Dealing with Humans? -- Response to long-term climate change -- Response to short-term ocean climate variation -- Response to marine pollution -- CHAPTER 14. NOT FORGETTING ̶ -- The Social Side - Behavior and Communication at Sea -- Penguin flock fusion/cohesion -- Penguin flock fission/fragmentation -- Navigation -- Long range -- Medium to short-range -- Understanding the Daily ‘Wash’ -- Air flux in diving penguins, an aspect of ‘washing’ -- Are Auks Really ‘Northern Penguins’? -- Research Tags – the Flip Side for Evolutionarily-Honed Fish-Birds -- SECTION VI -- CHAPTER 15. PENGUINS ̶ WHY THE HYPE? -- Sources of Hype -- Us -- Many people -- Researchers -- The Transition -- The fascination of species -- Beyond the transition -- Role in Ecosystems -- Biomimicry -- Our Last Word.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I Climate Change and the Ocean -- 1 Introduction to Climate Change -- 2 Warming, Acidification and Deoxygenation of the Ocean -- 3 Blue Carbon -- 4 Fishes and Carbon -- 5 Whales and Climate -- Part II Fisheries and Food from the Ocean -- 6 State of the World’s Fisheries—Legal Overfishing -- 7 Fish Crimes (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing) -- 8 Aquaculture: Farming Food from the Sea -- 9 Shark Fishing and Shark Finning -- 10 The Move to Sustainable Seafood -- Part III Ocean Pollution -- 11 Plastic and the Ocean -- 12 Shipping and the Ocean -- 13 Oil Spills -- 14 Ocean Noise Pollution -- Part IV Threatened and at Risk Ocean Habitats -- 15 The Deep Sea -- 16 Coral Reefs -- 17 Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: Our Last Great Wilderness -- 18 Top of theWorld—The Arctic Ocean -- 19 Coastal Habitats -- Part V How We Manage the World’s Oceans -- 20 Ocean Governance -- 21 Marine Protected Areas -- 22 Ensuring a Sustainable and Equitable Blue Economy -- 23 Leveraging Innovation for Ocean Conservation -- Part VI Humans and the Ocean -- 24 Oceans and Communities -- 25 Tourism and the Ocean -- 26 The Aquarium Trade -- 27 Marine Animal Welfare: A Growing Concern -- 28 Ocean and Human Health -- Part VII Diversity and Inclusion in the Ocean Space -- 29 Gender and the Ocean: Marine Resources and Spaces for All -- 30 Racial-Gender Disparities, and the Impacts of Coloniality in Ocean Science on BIPOC Women -- 31 Lived Experiences: Editors’ Note -- Part VIII Inspiring Voices -- 32 Inspiring Voices: Inka Cresswell, Jamila Janna, Merrisa Naidoo, Louisa Ponnampalam, Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy, Jo Ruxton MBE, Marilyn Slett, Patima Tungpuchayakul -- Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Food Microbiology Laboratory Safety and Notebook Record -- Staining Technology and Bright-field Microscope Use -- Enumeration of Bacteria in Broth Suspension by Spread and Pour Plating -- Isolation of Foodborne pathogens on Selective, Differentiate and Enrich Medium by Streak-plating -- Enumeration of Aerobic plate counts, Coliforms and Escherichia coli of Organic Fruit Juice on Petri-film -- Enumeration and identification of Staphylococcus aureus in Chicken Salads -- Enumeration and identification Listeria monocytogenes on ready-to-eat (RTE) frankfurters -- Isolation and identification of Salmonella and Campylobacter spp. on broiler carcasses -- Thermal inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Non-intact reconstructed beef patties -- Thermal inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in mechanically tenderized beef steaks and color measurements -- Evaluate antimicrobial activity of chlorine water on apples and measurement of free chlorine concentrations -- Evaluate cross-contamination of Salmonella on tomatoes in wash water using most probable number (MPN) technique -- Cultivation of Anaerobic Bacteria in Canned Food -- Observation and enumeration of Molds from Spoiled Bread -- DNA Extraction and Purity Determination of Foodborne Pathogens -- Practice of Multiplex PCR to identify bacteria in bacterial solutions -- PCR Identification of Listeria monocytogenes in Deli Meat -- Cheese Making and Characterization -- Wine and Sauerkraut Making and Characterization -- Introduction of oral presentation and job interview preparation -- Appendix- Samples of Food Microbiology Lab Course Syllabus. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Alkaline Extraction–Isoelectric Precipitation of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 2. Air Classification of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 3. Barometric Membrane Technologies for Plant Protein Purification -- Chapter 4. Electro-Activation as Emerging Technology for Proteins Extraction from Plant Materials: Theory and Applications -- Chapter 5. Emerging Solvent Extraction Technologies for Plant Protein Extraction: Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction; Deep Eutectic Solvent; Subcritical Water Extraction -- Chapter 6. Enzyme-Assisted Extraction of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 7. High Pressure for Plant Protein Extraction -- Chapter 8. High Voltage Electrical Treatments as an Eco-Efficient Approach for Plant Proteins Processing -- Chapter 9. Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 10. Micellar Precipitation and Reverse Micelle Extraction of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 11. Application of Ultrasound Technology in Plant-Based Proteins: Improving Extraction, Physicochemical, Functional, and Nutritional Properties -- Chapter 12. Impact of Green Extraction Technologies on Plant Protein Content and Quality -- Chapter 13. Effects of Extraction Technologies on the Functionalities and Applications of Plant Proteins.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface -- How we got here, and where we need to go: The bitter fight about meat and climate -- The consequences for climate of meat consumption -- The Limits of Vegetarianism -- The Benefits of Modern Efficiency -- The Limits of Efficiency -- The Miracle of Grass -- The limits of grass -- Lightening our Carbon Hoofprint -- Policy Pathways -- Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Food Additives: Importance, Classification, and Adverse Reactions in Humans. -- Natural Antioxidants -- Natural Antimicrobials -- Natural Colorants -- Natural Sweeteners -- Vegetal and Microbial Sources of Natural Additives and their Food Applications -- Utilization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Source of Natural Food Additives -- Preservation of Natural Food Additives -- Effect of Thermal Treatments on the Properties of Natural Food Additives -- Effect of Nonthermal Treatments on the Properties of Natural Food Additives -- Toxicological Aspects of Natural Food Additives -- Consumer Attitudes Toward Natural Food Additives -- Regulation of Natural Food Additives.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. The fundamentals of bread making: the science of fermentation -- Chapter 2. Traditional breads from the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) -- Chapter 3. Traditional breads in Bulgaria -- Chapter 4. Traditional Croatian breads, the “Peka” -- Chapter 5. Traditional breads from Cyprus, the “Arkatena” -- Chapter 6. Traditional breads from France -- Chapter 7. Traditional breads from Germany -- Chapter 8. Traditional Greek fermented bread, the “Eftazymo” -- Chapter 9. Traditional Hungarian sourdough -- Chapter 10. Traditional Irish breads, the “dulse bread” and the “Barnbrack bread or Bairín Breac” -- Chapter 11. Traditional Italian breads -- Chapter 12. Traditional Latvian sourdough rye bread -- Chapter 13. Traditional breads from Malta, the “Il-Hobza Maltija” -- Chapter 14. Traditional Norwegian breads -- Chapter 15. Traditional Polish Breads -- Chapter 16. Traditional Portuguese breads, the “Broa” and the “Pão de Gimonde” -- Chapter 17. Traditional Festive Romanian Easter Bread, the “Pasca” -- Chapter 18. Traditional Serbian bread, the “CIPOVKA” -- Chapter 19. Traditional breads from Spain -- Chapter 20. Traditional Turkish breads, the “Tandir Ekmeği’” -- Chapter 21. Traditional Ukranian bread making.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: INTRODUCTION: THE REEF PHENOMENON -- INTO THE INTIMACY OF CORALS, BUILDERS OF THE SEA -- 1 TAXONOMIC AFFILIATION -- 1.1 Systematic classification of cnidarians -- 1.2 Scleractinians -- 2 MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY -- 2.1 Polyp anatomy -- 2.2 Reproduction -- 2.2.1 Sexual reproduction -- 2.2.2 Asexual reproduction -- 2.3 Anatomy of calcareous skeletons -- 2.4 Coral colonies -- 2.4.1 Corallite arrangement -- 2.4.2 Colony morphology -- 3 SYMBIOSIS -- 4 BIOMINERALIZATION -- 4.1 Calicoderm and biomineralization -- 4.2 Skeletons and biomineralization -- 4.3 Interface between calicoderm and skeleton -- 4.4 Principles of calcification -- 5 NUTRITION -- 5.1 Prey capture -- 5.2 Food -- 5.3 Autotrophy -- THE MODERN TIMES -- 1 BIOZONATION -- 2 REEF MORPHOTYPES -- 2.1 Fringing reefs -- 2.2 Barrier reefs -- 2.3 Atolls -- 2.4 Bank reefs -- 2.5 High carbonate islands -- 3 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION -- 3.1 Ecological control -- 3.2 Tectonic control -- 3.3 Eustatic control -- 3.4 Topographic control -- 4 REEF GROWTH -- 4.1 Vertical growth strategies -- 4.1.1 Controlling factors -- 4.1.2 Give-up growth -- 4.1.3 Keep-up growth -- 4.1.4 Catch-up mode -- 4.2 Lateral growth -- 5 MORPHO-SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES -- 5.1 Bioconstruction -- 5.2 Erosion -- 5.3 Bioaccumulation -- 5.4 Cementation -- 6 INTERNAL STRUCTURE -- 6.1 Nature and distribution of facies -- 6.1.1 Framework facies -- 6.1.2 Detrital facies -- 6.1.3 Facies distribution and hydrodynamics -- 6.2 The different structural models -- 7 A BRIEF HISTORY OF REEF DEVELOPMENT -- 7.1 The climatic context -- 7.2 History of reef development since the last deglaciation -- 7.3 Reef history throughout the Pleistocene -- 8 RECORD OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES -- 8.1 Record at the coral colony scale -- 8.1.1 Temperature -- 8.1.2 Salinometry -- 8.1.3 Rainfall -- 8.1.4 pH measurement -- 8.1.5 Photometry -- 8.1.6 Current measurement -- 8.2 Record at the scale of a reef edifice -- 8.2.1 Reef flats and micro-atolls -- 8.2.2 Arrangement of coral communities -- 8.2.3 Arrangement of reef edifices -- THE LONG MARCH OF CORALS -- 1 THE TIME OF THE ORIGINS -- 1.1 Early Earth and the first traces of life -- 1.2 Evolution of the atmosphere -- 1.3 Geochemical model of the early ocean -- 1.4 Emergence of biomineralization -- 1.5 The early calcifying organisms and cnidarians -- 1.6 The earliest corals -- 1.7 The appearance of scleractinian corals -- 2 THE TIME OF DIVERSIFICATION -- 2.1 Coral-algae symbiosis -- 2.1.1 Acquiring photosymbiosis -- 2.1.2 Evidence of photosymbiosis -- 2.1.3 Symbiosis and coloniality -- 2.2 A brief history of coral and reef building -- 2.2.1 Paleozoic times -- 2.2.2 Mesozoic times -- 2.2.3 Cenozoic times -- THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE REEF PHENOMENON -- 1 CAUSES -- 1.1 Causal relationships -- 1.2 Gas emissions and volcanic products -- 1.3 Methane emissions -- 1.4 Thermogenic gases -- 1.5 The fall of celestial bodies -- 1.6 Behaviour of organisms facing environmental disturbances -- 1.7 Disturbances induced by CO2 and ocean acidification -- 1.8 Thermal shocks -- 1.9 Disturbances induced by ocean deoxygenation -- 2 THE MAIN BIOLOGICAL CRISES -- 2.1 The Cambrian crises -- 2.2 The major crisis of the Ordovician end -- 2.3 The minor crises of the Silurian -- 2.4 The successive crises of the Devonian -- 2.5 The Permian crises -- 2.6 The Triassic crises -- 2.7 The lower Jurassic crisis -- 2.8 The Jurassic–Cretaceous transition (J–K) -- 2.9 The Cretaceous–Paleogene crisis -- 2.10 The Paleocene–Eocene crisis -- 2.11 The Eocene–Oligocene transition -- 2.12 The Oligocene end to the Plio-Quaternary -- 3 THE RESPONSE OF CORALS AND REEFS TO CRISES: FROM EXTINCTION TO RECOVERY -- 3.1 At the Ordovician end -- 3.2 During the Silurian -- 3.3 During the Devonian -- 3.4 At the Permian -- 3.5 At the Permian–Triassic boundary -- 3.6 From the middle to the end of the Triassic -- 3.7 During the Jurassic -- 3.8 From the upper Jurassic to the lower Cretaceous -- 3.9 At the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) transition -- 3.10 From the Paleocene to the Eocene -- 3.11 From the Oligocene to the Miocene -- 3.12 During the Plio-Quaternary -- 4 CONCLUSIONS -- CORAL REEFS IN THE FACE OF THEIR FATE -- 1 DISRUPTIVE AGENTS IN ACTION -- 1.1 Carbon dioxide and rising surface water temperatures -- 1.2 Carbon dioxide and its effects on the carbonate cycle -- 1.3 Carbon dioxide and ocean acidification -- 1.4 The other disruptive agents -- 2 THE RESPONSE OF CORALS AND CORAL REEFS -- 2.1 Temperature rise of surface waters -- 2.2 To acidification -- 2.3 To other disruptive agents -- 3 THE EVOLUTION OF CORAL ISLETS -- 3.1 The modes of low-lying island formation -- 3.2 Future evolution of low-lying islands: maintenance, reduction, or destruction? -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDICE.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface -- Microbiological safety and antimicrobial resistance in fresh produce production in Africa -- The current status of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes in African aquaculture -- Antibiotic resistance in food animals in Africa: Occurrence, human health risk, socio-economic impact, and mitigation measures -- The era of bacterial genomics in antibiotic research in Africa -- Insights Gained Through Genomics and Metagenomics Resistomes Studies in Africa -- Occurrence and health risks of antimicrobial resistance in African aquatic systems -- Antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in African coastal ecosystems -- Application of nanotechnology for the elimination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from wastewater -- Genetics of viral resistance: clinical relevance and role in future disease outbreaks -- Antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica in Africa -- Antimicrobial resistance patterns of ESKAPE pathogens in humans, animals, and the environment in Africa -- Informal settlements and slums: Sinks and sources of antibiotic resistance in Africa -- Antibiotic resistance pattern of bloodstream infections in neonates -- Natural products in combination with conventional antimicrobial agents – A potential solution to antimicrobial resistance -- Biocidal activity of plant extracts: the case of Algeria -- Interconnection between antibiotic resistance and disinfectant resistance -- Effects of disinfectant resistance in a post antibiotic era in animal production -- Antimicrobial Stewardship in Africa -- Occurrence, human exposure, and health risks of antibiotic resistance in the funeral industry: A Perspective -- Social structures and assemblages of AMR in African settings -- Bibliography -- Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Introduction: Sustainability and Foods- 2. Carbohydrates for Energy -- 3. Carbohydrates for Fibre -- 4. Protein -- 5. Lipids -- 6. Minerals -- 7. Water Soluble Vitamins -- 8. Fat Soluble Vitamins -- 9. Bioactives compounds from food and their applications in the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes -- 10. Understanding New Foods: Alternative Protein Sources -- 11. Understanding New Foods: Upcycling -- 12. Understanding New Foods: Development of Next Generation of Food Processing, Packaging, and Ingredients Technologies for Clean-Label Foods -- 13. Understanding New Foods: Water Quality.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Food Computing Research opportunities using AI and M -- Estimating the Risk of Diabetes Using Association Rule Mining Based on Clustering -- Digital Twins for Food Nutrition and Health Based on Cloud Communication -- Smart Healthcare Systems: An IoT with Fog Computing based Solution for Healthcare,- An Intelligent and Secure Real-time Environment Monitoring System for healthcare using IoT and Cloud Computing with the Mobile Application Support -- Efficient BREV Ensemble Framework: A Case Study of Breast Cancer Prediction,- Current and Future Trends of Cloud-based solutions for Healthcare,- Secure Authentication in IoT based healthcare management environment using integrated Fog computing enabled blockchain system -- SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 TWEETS USING VOTING ENSEMBLE-BASED MODEL -- Cloud and machine learning based solutions for healthcare and preventio -- Interoperable Cloud-Fog architecture in IoT-enabled Health Sector -- COVID-19 Wireless Self-Assessment Software for Rural Areas in Nigeria -- Efficient Fog-to-Cloud Internet-of-Medical-Things System.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. The Shrimps: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Structure and Function -- Chapter 3. The Families of Decapod Shrimps -- Chapter 4. Shrimp Hygiene: Antifouling Adaptations -- Chapter 5. Coloration, Color Change and Camouflage -- Chapter 6. Reproduction -- Chapter 7. Sexual Systems -- Chapter 8. Mating Systems -- Chapter 9. Life Histories -- Chapter 10. Symbioses -- Chapter 11. Fisheries and Aquaculture -- Chapter 12. Evolutionary History and Relationships of Shrimps.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I. Introduction -- An Introduction to Reservoir Ecotoxicology -- Part II. Environmental Characteristics in Reservoir Ecosystems -- Characterization of Reservoir Ecosystem -- Main Sources and Distribution of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Migration and Transformation of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Harmful Algal Bloom in the Reservoir -- Microplastics Pollution in the Reservoir: Occurrence, Extraction, and Characterization -- Distribution of Microorganisms in the Reservoir -- Part III. Study Methods of Ecotoxicology in the Reservoir -- Ecotoxicity Test Methods of Primary Producers in the Reservoir -- Ecotoxicology Methods of Reservoir Water Using Invertebrates -- Ecotoxicology Methods of Reservoir Water Using Fish -- Ecotoxicology Methodology of Sediment Toxicity in the Reservoir -- Mesocosm Study in the Reservoir Ecosystem -- Part IV. Ecotoxicological Effects and Mechanism of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Heavy Metals in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops) in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Microplastics in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of Plasticizers in the Reservoir -- Molecular Toxicity Mechanism of PPCPs in the Reservoir -- Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) of Pollutants in the Reservoir -- Invasive Alien Species Problem in the Reservoir -- Part V. Conclusions -- Final Thoughts and Concluding Remarks.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Introduction: The Relevance of Anthropogenic Factors to Coral Reef Conservation in the Coastal Areas of the East China Sea -- Chapter 2. Transitional Coral Ecosystem of Taiwan in the Era of Changing Climate -- Chapter 3. Dynamics of Coral Reef Communities in the Sekisei Lagoon, Japan, Following the Severe Mass Bleaching Event of 2016 -- Chapter 4. Succession and Emergence of Corals in High-Latitude (Temperate) Areas of Eastern Asia into the Future -- Chapter 5. Succession and Spread of Coral Diseases and Coral-Killing Sponges with Special Reference to Microbes in Southeast Asia and Adjacent Waters -- Chapter 6. Succession of Ocean Acidification and its Effects on Reef-Building Corals -- Chapter 7. Anthropogenic Stresses in Coral Reefs and Adjacent Ecosystems of the East China Sea -- Chapter 8. Development of a Compact Experimental System for Ecotoxicological Experiments on Acropora spp. -- Chapter 9. Effects of Anthropogenic Chemicals on Hermatypic Corals with Special Reference to Gene Expression -- Chapter 10. Perspective for the Conservation of Coral Reefs in the East China Sea.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: History of Sensory Analysis -- Psychological Considerations in Sensory Analysis -- Physiology of Sensory Perception -- Dairy Products Evaluation Competitions -- Fluid Milk and Cream Products -- Butter -- Creamed Cottage Cheese -- Yogurt -- Cheddar and Cheddar-Type Cheese -- Ice Cream and Related Products -- Concentrated and Dried Milk Products -- Pasteurized Process Cheese -- Sour Cream and Related Products -- Swiss Cheese and Related Products -- Mozzarella -- Latin American Cheeses -- Mold-ripened cheeses -- Goat and Sheep Cheeses -- Modern Sensory Practices.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I. Introduction and Description of Study Area -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Climate Changes Along the German Coast -- Chapter 3. Coastal Landscapes of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea -- Chapter 4. Geography and Study Sites -- Chapter 5. Climate and Weather Conditions Along the German Shores -- Chapter 6 -- Inundation Regimes of the German Coasts and the Impact of the Rising Sea Level -- Chapter 7. The Surface Salinity of the North Sea and Baltic Sea Area -- Chapter 8. Soils -- Part II. Historical and Future Changes of the Dune and Salt Marsh Fauna -- Chapter 9. General Aspects of Coastal Vegetation at the North Sea and the Baltic Sea -- Chapter 10. Predicting Plant Distribution Shifts -- Chapter 11. General Aspects of Coastal Carabid Beetle and Spider Fauna at the North Sea and the Baltic Sea -- Chapter 12. Changes of the Fauna of Digger Wasps and Bees (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the North Frisian Island of Sylt – Effects of Climate Change? -- Chapter 13. Historical Changes in the Carabid Beetle Fauna of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania -- Chapter 14. Distribution of Spiders and Carabid Beetles Along a Geographical Gradient -- Chapter 15. Predicting Carabid Beetle Distribution Shifts -- Part III. Experimental Assessments of the Effects of Climate Change on Habitats and Their Organisms -- Chapter 16. Field Experiment: Effects of Increased Temperature on a Tidalic Fluvisol -- Chapter 17. Field Experiment: Effects of Microclimate Modification on Soil Organisms and Aggregate Formation in Dune Sand -- Chapter 18. Expected Vegetation Dynamics in Salt Marshes at the North Sea Coast Under Changed Inundation Conditions as an Effect of Climate Change -- Chapter 19. Effects of Sedimentation and Erosion on the Development of Vegetation -- Chapter 20. Tide Simulation Experiment -- Chapter 21. Storm Surges as Natural Experiments -- Part IV. De-Embankments and Its Effects on the Vegetation and Fauna -- Chapter 22. De-embankments at the North Sea and the Baltic Sea Coasts -- Chapter 23. Salt Marsh Restoration in a Summer Polder at the Wursten Coast -- Chapter 24. Estimated Future Effects of the Sea Level Rise Exemplified by the Wursten Coast -- Chapter 25. Restoration of Salt Meadows at the Baltic Sea Coast: The De-Embankment Experiment at Karrendorf Meadows -- Part V. Synthesis and Conclusions -- Chapter 26. Expert System: Plants -- Chapter 27. Expert System: Spiders and Carabid Beetles. Chapter 28. Consequences of Climate Change for Biota of the Coastal Salt Marshes and Dunes: Synthesis, Final Conclusions, and Ideas of Compensation.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part 1. Economic, Legal, and Technological Support of Quality Management and Sustainable Development in the Digital Agro-Industrial Complex -- Sustainable Development of Agro-industrial Complex and Food Security through Digital Agriculture: Contribution of Robots, Big Data, and AI -- State and Development of Cotton Production in Kyrgyzstan -- Model Lawmaking as a Condition for Stable Development of Beekeeping Activities in CIS Countries -- Algorithms and Tools of Digital Marketing for the Sustainable Development of Agricultural Tourism Businesses -- Digitalization as a Factor in Improving the Efficiency of Agricultural Production and Living Standards of the Rural Population in Russia -- Improvement of the Grain Quality Assessment System in context of the North Kazakhstan Region -- Agricultural Organizations as the Basis of the Production Segment of Sustainable Development of Social, Ecological, and Economic Systems -- Improvement of Agricultural Policy of Kazakhstan in Improving the Use of Labor Potential of Rural Areas -- Transformation of Purchasing Behavior in Choosing Meat and Meat Products as an Important Aspect in the Development of the AIC -- Part 2. Russian and International Agricultural Policies for Food Security -- Assessment of the Effectiveness of Dairy Farming -- The Role of Agricultural Protectionism in National Food Security.[ Some Aspects of Food Security in the Kyrgyz Republic -- Monitoring in the Agricultural Sector, Economic Indicators of the Agricultural Sector in Cyprus -- Foreign Economic Relations of the European Union Countries and Their Assessment in the Context of Implementing the New Common Agricultural Policy -- Development of Agricultural Cooperation as the Basis for Digitalization of the Agricultural Sector of the Kyrgyz Republic -- The Role and Place of Russia in the World Market of Meat and Meat Products -- Changes in Global Production and Trade of Major Tropical Fruits -- Factors and Trends in the Development of International Trade in Fruit and Berry Products.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Sex and Behavior -- Chapter 2. Genetic Tools to Investigate the Consequences of Sex -- Chapter 3. Skulls, Teeth, and Sex -- Chapter 4. Cetacean Evolution: Copulatory and Birthing Consequences of Pelvic and Hindlimb Reduction -- Chapter 5. Sexual Anatomy of Female Cetaceans: Art and Science Contribute Insights into Functionality -- Chapter 6. Interspecific Comparison of Reproductive Strategies -- Chapter 7. Non-Conceptive Sexual Behavior in Cetaceans: Comparison of Form and Function -- Chapter 8. Play, Sexual Display, or Just Boredom Relief? -- Chapter 9. Sexual Behaviors of Odontocetes in Managed Care -- Chapter 10. Infanticide and Sexual Conflict in Cetaceans -- Chapter 11. Drone Perspectives on Cetacean Mating and Sex -- Chapter 12. Inter- and Intrapopulation Variation in Bottlenose Dolphin Mating Strategies -- Chapter 13. Sex and Sexual Strategies in Deep-Diving Risso's Dolphins -- Chapter 14. Sociosexual Behavior of Nocturnally Foraging Dusky and Spinner Dolphins -- Chapter 15. Life History Parameters, Sociobiology, and Reproductive Strategies of Pilot Whales -- Chapter 16. Sex in Killer Whales: Behavior, Exogamy and the Evolution of Sexual Strategies in the Ocean’s Apex Predator -- Chapter 17. Beaked Whale Sexual Dimorphism, Mating Strategies, and Diversification -- Chapter 18. Sexual Behavior and Anatomy in Porpoises -- Chapter 19. Sperm Whale Reproductive Strategies: Current Knowledge and Future Directions -- Chapter 20. Reproductive Tactics in Baleen Whales -- Chapter 21. Gray Whale Sex, Reproductive Behavior, and Social Strategies -- Chapter 22. Bowhead Whale Reproductive Strategies -- Chapter 23. Right Whale Sexual Strategies and Behavior -- Chapter 24. Cetacean Sociality, Reproduction, and Conservation.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The importance of halal food and its legality in both Islamic and non-Islamic communities around the world -- Dilemma and Concepts of Halal-Safe Food -- Metrology's Importance and Application in the Halal Food Assurance System -- Concept and Significance of the Halal Traceability System -- Kosher and halal food dissimilarities and challenges in accessing international markets -- One Health- new approach towards halal food safety -- Laboratory Methods for authenticating conformity of Halal Foods -- Models for risk analysis applicable to Halal food products -- Halal and kosher slaughter procedures in livestock and poultry -- The origins, usage, and production methods of halal and kosher gelatin -- Fraud on Halal food: principles, quality challenges, and safety concerns -- Standards and their application to the production, manufacture, and storage of halal food -- Fermentation techniques used to enhance the quality of halal food products -- Principles and techniques of sensory evaluation for assessing the quality of halal foods -- Good practices: Conception and implementation through the Halal food supply chain -- Contamination of Halal Beef Carcasses by Bacteria Grow or Survive During Cold Storage -- Inherent and extrinsic factors related to the shelf life of halal food stuff -- Impact of fluctuating storage temperatures on the sensory and microbiological quality of halal beef products -- Food additives and their applications in the production of halal and kosher foods -- The origin of enzymes and their applications in the production of specific halal products -- Pesticides Maximum Residues Levels (MRLs) in Halal Food -- The prevalence of microorganisms and their impact on the wholesomeness of particular Nile fish and fish products -- Significant risk of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in certain halal foods -- Antimicrobial resistance: Challenges and Incidence in Various Halal Food Products -- Manufacturing Procedures for Controlling Harmful Microorganisms in Halal Chicken Meat Products -- Effects of heavy metal contamination on the safety of halal foodstuffs -- The incidence of aflatoxin in feedstuff and foodstuff and its significances on the wholsomnness of halal food -- Non-alcoholic drink safety and halal certification -- Production of Halal Meat Using HACCP System: Idea and Implementation. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Introduction to Wetlands -- Chapter 2. The Causal Factor Approach to Wetland Ecology -- Chapter 3. Duration of Flooding is the Most Important Causal Factor -- Chapter 4. Flood Pulses -- Chapter 5. Fertility -- Chapter 6. Natural Disturbance -- Chapter 7. Competition -- Chapter 8. Herbivory -- Chapter 9. Burial -- Chapter 10. Salinity -- Chapter 11. Roads -- Chapter 12. Coarse Woody Debris -- Chapter 13. Invasive Species are an Emerging Causal Factor -- Chapter 14. Human Population Size -- Chapter 15. The Global Context for Wetland Protection and Restoration -- Chapter 16. Some Review Questions for Managers.