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The exams for Agriculture are available all the way back to 1993 for most academic years.
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New Titles at Badham and Camden Libraries
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Adaptive environmental management : a practitioner's guide - Catherine Allan, George H. Stankey
Call Number: Badham 333.7 1058
Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of 'integrated natural resource management'. It is defined by learning from past management actions to use the gained experience for future planning and management. However, adaptive management has proved difficult to achieve in practice. With a view to facilitating better practice, this new handbook combines the latest in adaptive management theory with detailed case studies, to provide managers with ready access to relevant information. Case studies are drawn from a number of fields, including wilderness, marine fisheries, sustainable farming, freshwater rivers, watersheds, forests, biodiversity and pests. They also cover a variety of scales, from individual farms, through regional projects, to state-wide decision making, and come from across the world, including examples from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe and South Africa. While the book is designed primarily for practitioners and policy advisors in the fields of environmental and natural resource management, it will also provide a valuable reference for students and researchers with interests in environmental, natural resource and conservation management.
Agricultural development policy : concepts and experiences - Roger D. Norton.
Call Number: Badham 338.18 85
ISBN/ISSN: 9780199547951
Prepared under the aegis of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this text presents a fresh and comprehensive look at agricultural development policy. It provides a clear, systematic review of important classes of policy issues in developing countries and discusses the emerging international consensus on viable approaches to the issues.The text is unique in its coverage and depth and it: Summarises hundreds of references on agricultural development policies Cites policy experiences and applied studies in more than 70 countries Provides guidance for policy makers giving examples of successes and failures Reviews issues related to the formulation of strategies and the requirements for making them successful Develops the conceptual foundations and illustrates policies that have worked, and some that have not, with explanations Topics covered include agriculture's role in economic development, the objectives and strategies of agricultural policy, linkages between macroeconomic and agricultural policy, policies for the agricultural financial system and agricultural technology development.Upper level undergraduates taking courses in Economic Development and International Development and graduates taking courses in Agricultural Development, International and Economic Development, Natural Resource Management and specialised topics in agriculture will find this text of great interest. It also serves as a reference for professionals and researchers in the field of International Development.
A blueprint for a safer planet : how to manage climate change and create a new era of progress and prosperity - Nicholas Stern.
Call Number: Badham 338.927 79
Further substantial global warming is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use energy, organise transport and treat forests - will determine whether these risks become realities. * Stern's central theme is the economic management of investment and growth from the perspective of both adaptation and mitigation. * Although poor countries - the least responsible for climate change - will be hit earliest and hardest, all countries must adapt to the effects: hurricanes and storms hit New Orleans and Mumbai; flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; droughts occur in Australia and Darfur; and sea level rise will affect Florida and Bangladesh. * Action on Climate Change will require the greatest international collaboration the world has ever seen.
Color atlas of postharvest quality of fruits and vegetables - Maria Cecilia do Nascimento Nunes.
Call Number: Badham 634.046 8
From Agaricus bisporus (the cultivated white button mushroom) to Zea mays (sweet corn), and not overlooking more exotic fruits and vegetables, Nunes (food science and human nutrition, U. of Florida, Gainesville) provides a unique reference that shows how time-temperature conditions impact the postharvest visual and presumably nutritional qualities of selected local and "world wide classic" cultivars in real-life rather than under laboratory conditions. A maximum of six hours is said to have elapsed between the harvested produce grown under known conditions and this photographic study. For each fruit and vegetable, chapters include the scientific and common names, quality selection criteria, recommendations on optimum handling and storage, and color photographs showing the effects of different storage times and temperatures.
A day in the bush : bushwalks in and around Sydney - Les Higgins and Tony Rodd
Call Number: Badham 796.5109944 23
Sydney is blessed in being surrounded by bush - ringed on three sides by readily accessible national parks featuring a variety of habitats and attractions. This compact, family-oriented guide to bushwalking around Sydney is specially designed to fit neatly into your daypack. With detailed information on the natural history of the region you will feel like an instant expert. With thorough track notes on 45 different walks all taking a day or less, you will always know what features to look out for: and with a clear and accurate contour map delineating each route and the landscape traversed, you will find it extremely difficult to get lost.
Ecosystem engineers : plants to protists - Editor: Kim Cuddington
Call Number: Badham 634.0994 12
The concept of ecosystem engineering is a novel way of looking at species and their ecological interactions. It forces ecologists to recognize that species are not passive victims of environmental conditions, but may also actively influence and modify their physical environment. Moreover, it promises to provide conceptual links between physiological, population, community, ecosystem, and evolutionary ecology. However, from its inception, this concept has generated controversy that may lead some to conclude that it has nothing new to offer to ecology. This volume embraces that debate and simultaneously illustrates the value of the ecosystem engineering approach as a means of understanding ecological and evolutionary relationships.
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Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources TeamContact Info:
Lea Dawson (Thur, Fri)
Judy Reading (Tue, Wed)
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Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resources, Land & Water Science, Horticulture
Lea Dawson (Thur, Fri)
Judy Reading (Tue, Wed)
Badham Library
Ph: +61 2 9351 3629
Karen Black
Camden Library
Ph. +61 2 9351 1707
fafnr@library.usyd.edu.au
Send Email
Subjects:
Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resources, Land & Water Science, Horticulture
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