Maintaining soil health in dryland areas Robert McPhersonDrylands cover 40% of the global terrestrial space and are home for 2 billion people, often the most vulnerable. Land use is dominated by rangelands and much less by croplands, while barren areas with sparse vegetation mixed with rock outcrops are widespread. In spite of their hostile nature, drylands host 50% of global livestock and 30% of all present grown crops originate from them. This chapter addresses critical research issues needed to maintain
patterns of settlement and trade
Laura Peters considers canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated
This collective provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old
film and activism responsive to asylum seekers has played in the emergence of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life
Holland during the field seasons of 1973-1975 and 1989-1991
protecting non-target organisms
high-quality beef requires both good farming practices and additional measures targeted against specific hazards to human or animal health
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive
and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing
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The Culture of Photography in Public Space collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions
