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Completely revised, updated and with four new chapters on sustainability, new technologies and the future of animal welfare, the third edition of this highly successful textbook remains essential reading for students of ethology and animal science.

Completely revised, updated and with four new chapters on sustainability, new technologies, precision farming and the future of animal welfare, the third edition of this highly successful textbook by an internationally recognised expert is for students of ethology and animal science.

This handbook is for journalists, researchers and policy makers working on science communication for water peace and cooperation. It features descriptions of activities (including action research, training modules, joint workshops, reporting grants, podcast and an online photo campaign) implemented by the Open Water Diplomacy project in the Nile basin.

Invasive species are of great environmental importance but no book before now has explored a key aspect: the nature of species interactions. This book looks at the theories, evidence and practicalities for managing invasions.

This book covers the advances in livestock mineral nutrition, updated with more illustrations and additional material on the relationship between livestock and man. Recent developments are discussed, such as increasing the 'mineral value' of feeds by the use of additives.

This book provides an in-depth examination of how and why tourists behave as they do, and how this is perceived by hosts and outside agencies, covering national characteristics of tourists from around the world, effects of everyday events and governmental and environmental factors, and tourists' consideration of sustainable principles.

This book is essential reading for all agronomy lecturers and students at universities and colleges. By bringing together recent research and practice it is also a valuable resource for researchers and advisors in this area, such as plant breeders, agronomists and pathologists.

The book gives the reader a bird's eye view of more than 350 of the best-known medicinal plants of the world and their uses, in a compact, colourful and scientifically accurate reference text.

This up-to-date, comprehensive book covers the practicalities of working with and studying soil and plant nematodes. Written by an international team of experts, it includes traditional and new methodologies, as well as sections on behavioural and physiological assays, and cytogenetic, biochemical and molecular biology techniques.

This book is a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which ecology is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced.

Elephant tourism is a growing attraction across Asia and Africa and is popular with many tourists. This book highlights the need for a comprehensive and rigorous focus on local solutions to improve the welfare of captive elephants and tourists' experiences of elephant tourism, which will be to the benefit of local communities.

Concise, readable and accessible, this text gives non-specialist veterinary professionals an introduction to ethics. It helps readers to think about, and discuss, ethical dilemmas and viewpoints faced by practitioners in their daily practice.

Destination research today has become increasingly fragmented as studies become more specialized. This book provides a systematic examination and combines spatial and organizational structure across destinations from the national to the local scale to produce a comprehensive understanding of destinations and a complete integrative framework of them.

This book contains a series of essays designed for graduate students and researchers on crucial issues in the relatively new field of urban ecology.

This thought-provoking book challenges the orthodoxy of tourism and development, highlights past and current events as well as the repercussions and further developments well into the future.

A new textbook showing beginners how to use the free programming language R for fundamental biostatistical analysis, graphical display, and experimental design. The book takes a simple step-by-step approach to give a good grounding in the use of R for undergraduate/beginning postgraduate biology students.

One Health has now expanded beyond discussion of emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus, this new edition includes more non-infectious disease issues and climate change discussion alongside revised case studies and expanded methodology chapters to draw out implications for practice.

Bringing together the latest research from leading experts, this book provides an indispensable reference on the health benefits of drinking tea. It examines the general health giving properties of tea before moving on to a detailed review of the evidence for the beneficial effects of tea on specific ailments.

The subjects of stress and animal welfare are currently attracting immense interest. This book brings together a range of perspectives from biomedical research (including human health and animal models of human stress) on stress and welfare, and assesses new approaches to conceptualising and alleviating stress.

Written by recognised postharvest experts, this book provides invaluable, up-to-date information for those working in the growing, packing, shipping and retail phases of the postharvest chain, getting fruit to the consumer. Essential for those in the Mediterranean region and countries that export and import these crops.

Biological diversity is essential for sustainability, and this book recounts the creation and development of the rare breed conservation movement. It addresses extinctions, endangered breeds, and safe-guarding genetic diversity while considering our future - challenged as it is by climate change, sustainability and feeding the world.

Riders can face a range of horse behavioural problems, which if left untreated could cause the horse-human relationship to break down. This book examines behavioural issues using academic research, offering practical solutions illustrated with photos and case studies. It covers over 30 major issues, including biting, kicking, shying and bolting.

This book focuses on the multiple and interconnected manifestations of violence that women/girls encounter in tourism consumption and production while seeking to open the debate on violence against sexual minorities (LGBT) and discussing men/boys as victims and perpetrators of GBV.

Written by one of the world's leading and most respected experts on butterfly ecology, behaviour and conservation, this book summarises in one place for the first time our knowledge of butterfly life history strategies, behaviour and systems. This book represents a major contribution to the field of butterfly biology and entomology in general.

The first of its kind, this book focuses exclusively on tourism development, planning and impacts in a wide number of Central and South America. It covers experiences, challenges, successful and unsuccessful stories, specific cases, and other tourism related issues of twelve countries in total.

This book is the first single author work to be published for more than thirty years that provides a broad, balanced review of our scientific knowledge of strawberries. This title covers aspects from taxonomy, ecology, morphology and genetics to environmental physiology, disease and pest control, fruit ripening, storage and processing.

Fully updated and revised, the fourth edition of this popular textbook provides a complete and comprehensive account of how to successfully breed horses. Beginning with a grounding in reproductive anatomy, it reviews endocrine control and selection for breeding mares and stallions, pregnancy, parturition and lactation.

This new, third edition has been thoroughly updated to include all the key principles, methodologies, approaches and practical examples of insect pest management in agricultural, post harvest and horticultural contexts, as well as looking at insects as vectors of disease from a medical and veterinary perspective.

New concepts and the latest developments in the industry are addressed in this second volume, following The Shrimp Book (NUP, 2010).

Phytosanitary risk management is essential to the global economy. This book is about managing phytosanitary risks of trade and non-trade issues and the fundamentals of how to manage those risks in an effective and efficient manner. It covers risk management models, best practice, phytosanitary measures and current risk management issues.