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Description for Agroforestry in Europe
Hardcover. This timely collection of research papers is augmented by detailed reviews of the main elements of European agroforestry and the issues that face it. The book provides an up-to-date and complete overview of agroforestry in Europe. Editor(s): Rigueiro-Rodriguez, Antonio; McAdam, Jim H.; Rosa Mosquera-Losada, Maria. Series: Advances in Agroforestry. Num Pages: 474 pages, 14 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; TVR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 858.
Agroforestry has come of age during the past three decades. The age-old practice of growing trees and crops and sometimes animals in interacting combinations – that has been ignored in the single-commodity-oriented agricultural and forestry development paradigms – has been brought into the realm of modern land-use. Today agroforestry is well on its way to becoming a specialized science at a level similar to those of crop science and forestry science. To most land-use experts, however, agroforestry has a tropical connotation. They consider agroforestry as something that can and can only be identified with the tropics. That is a wrong ... Read more
Agroforestry has come of age during the past three decades. The age-old practice of growing trees and crops and sometimes animals in interacting combinations – that has been ignored in the single-commodity-oriented agricultural and forestry development paradigms – has been brought into the realm of modern land-use. Today agroforestry is well on its way to becoming a specialized science at a level similar to those of crop science and forestry science. To most land-use experts, however, agroforestry has a tropical connotation. They consider agroforestry as something that can and can only be identified with the tropics. That is a wrong ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Agroforestry
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402082719
SKU
V9781402082719
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