Urban-Rural Dynamics: Transition Challenges and Opportunities examines interconnections between urban and rural areas through migration, economic linkages, and spatial transformation processes. The text blends theoretical perspectives with case studies tracing how education, employment, infrastructure, and social networks shape rural-urban transitions. Through systematic analysis, the material demonstrates how urbanization processes create both challenges and opportunities for rural and ur...

Territorial Transformation: Comparative Urban and Rural Studies explores key drivers of spatial change including globalization, technological innovation, demographic shifts, and environmental pressures reshaping territories. Through comparative analysis of urban and rural transformation processes, the text examines how economic restructuring, policy interventions, and social movements reconfigure spatial organization and territorial identities. The material demonstrates diverse transformat...

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current achievements and future possibilities for the application of epigenetic and epigenomic techniques to the improvement of crops. Creating crops more resilient to the stresses caused by climate change will be an important part of a climate-smart and sustainable agriculture strategy for the future. All critical environmental stressors are explored: temperature, salt, drought, pollutants, pests, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The exciting...

Genome editing offers a powerful tool to significantly accelerate crop-breeding programs in order to develop new and improved varieties. It allows precise modification of an organism's DNA sequence, often by creating targeted double-strand breaks at specific locations. The CRISPR-Cas system has emerged as the preferred method of gene editing and offers a powerful technology for crop improvement. The use of CRISPR in plant research has led to significant improvements in crop performance in ...

1-"She was not able to praise?" That's why she used the same old raga-"She made up her mind to curse Hindu Gods and Goddesses." As soon as the thought entered in her mind, Gautami acted on it. She was about to cry unnecessarily when another thought flashed in her mind with lightning speed. Maybe even God didn't feel like listening to abuses today? Or else her own soul was not able to see her God getting more ashamed. Maybe as a reaction to this, this thought has cropped up.....???T...

The book develops a practical understanding of the fundamental scientific principles and logic underlying the art of turf pitch preparation, measuring, analysing, and interpreting pitch surface behaviour. It’s an attempt to understand how the captains, players, coaches, curators, and groundsmen comprehend and analyse the cricket pitch behaviour (days before and during the matches) and whether the pitch behaviour can be standardised and quantified (through bench marking or forming a data-ba...

Describes the basics of ROS metabolism in plants and examines the broad range of ROS signaling mechanismsNew discoveries about the effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on plants have turned ROS from being considered a bane into a boon, because their roles have been discovered in many plant developmental processes as signaling molecules. This comprehensive book teaches about the role of ROS metabolism in plants and how they affect various developmental processes...

BENEFICIAL CHEMICAL ELEMENTS OF PLANTSUnderstand beneficial elements and their role in the future of botany and agricultureBeneficial elements are those which, while not essential to plant life, can provide stimulation and enhance plant growth. Properly harnessed, these elements can bolster plant growth in the face of environmental conditions—including drought, nutrient deficiency, and excessive soil salinity—and biotic stresses like pathog...

The rise of rapid and uncontrolled industrialization, its alarming levels of hazardous waste produced, and their negative contribution to the international environmental epidemic of global warming — in addition to the decrease in room to dispose of these wastes safely — have put the pressure for many engineers, researchers, and key decision-makers to find the answers to the constant tussle between progress and sustainability — and quickly.Environmental Geotechnology revisits existing conce...

Climate change has intensified in recent decades, which has affected crop production as well as facilitated the emergence of new diseases and insect pests, causing serious threats to agriculture. Farmers have mostly taken a crop-based approach to insect pest management (IPM); the authors of this new volume, however, take the unique approach that IPM based on specific cropping systems is more efficient, resulting in reduced cultivation costs, increased yield and profitability, and decreased...

A guide to the diversity of pesticides used in modern agricultural practices, and the relevant social and environmental issuesPesticides in Crop Production offers an important resource that explores pesticide action in plants; pesticide metabolism in soil microbes, plants and animals; bioaccumulation of pesticides and sensitiveness of microbiome towards pesticides. The authors explore pesticide risk assessment, the development of pesticide resistance in pe...

This book presents a thorough review of the state-of-knowledge and recent innovations in the synthesis of pure and improved grades of fly ash zeolites (FAZ). Addressing improvements to conventional methods, it also showcases a novel technique for the synthesis of high cation exchangers from fly ash and detailed characterization techniques for the products obtained. In addition, it examines in detail various areas of specific applications of fly ash zeolites.Over the years, several ...