The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment (3-Volume Set)

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Richard W. Hazlett

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Offers comprehensive coverage, through a collection of peer-reviewed articles, that spans both time (the early history of human settlements to the near future), and space (from regional to global perspectives)
Builds important bridges between science, scholarship, and practice, and integrates hard sciences with social sciences and culture, an interdisciplinary approach that is essential for grasping this theme and for promoting better environmental stewardship
Includes a wide range of scholarly international voices on a field of study much in need of deeper consideration and synthesis, given current environmental trends

Through a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment presents an authoritative overview of the role and impacts of agriculture on the natural and human environments, from its origins historically to current praxis and outlooks. It examines the major themes of global and regional environmental change, the evolution of agriculture, historical styles of agriculture, famine, agricultural pollutants, research needs in agriculture, and the future of agriculture. The collection includes expert perspectives on specific important crops, soil science, land abuse and stewardship, methods of irrigation, experimental agricultures, patterns of farming, history and agro-archaeology, current agricultural trends, and contemporary public policy. It is curated by an international panel of scholars led by Editor in Chief Richard W. Hazlett, along with Associate Editors Peter Bogucki, Marc Los Huertos, Attila Nemes, and Giuseppe Provenzano.

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Index

Index:

List of Articles

History of Agriculture
The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
William Ruddiman
Nomadism
Philip Carl Salzman
Hunter-Gatherer Economies in the Old World and New World
Christian Morgan, Shannon Tushingham, Raven Garvey, Loukas Barton, and Robert Bettinger
Geography and Chronology of the Transition to Agriculture
Peter Bogucki
Ancient and Traditional Agriculture, Pastoralism, and Agricultural Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew B. Smith
Barley in Archaeology and Early History
Simone Riehl
Prehistoric and Traditional Agriculture in Lowland Mesoamerica
Clarissa Cagnato
Agricultural Origins and their Consequences in Southwestern Asia
Alan Simmons
Agriculture in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant
John M. Marston
Human Environmental Interrelationships and the Origins of Agriculture in Egypt and Sudan
Simon Holdaway and Rebecca Phillipps
Agricultural Dispersals in Mediterranean and Temperate Europe
Aurélie Salavert
The Agriculture of Early India
Charlene Murphy and Dorian Q. Fuller
Early History of Animal Domestication in Southwest Asia
Benjamin S. Arbuckle
Agricultural Practices and Environmental Impacts of Aztec and Pre-Aztec Central Mexico
Deborah L. Nichols
Ancient and Traditional Agriculture in South America: Tropical Lowlands
Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Eduardo Neves, Charles R. Clement, Helena Lima, Claide Moraes, and Gilton Mendes
Indigenous American Agricultural Contributions to Modern Global Food Systems
Marcia C. Bruno
Origin and Development of Agriculture in New Guinea, Island Melanesia and Polynesia
Tim Denham
Agricultural Innovation and Dispersal in Eastern North America
Kandace D. Hollenbach and Stephen B. Carmody
Indigenous Polynesian Agriculture in Hawai'i
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln and Peter Vitousek
Evolution of Agricultural Practices and the Transformation of the English Landscape
Tom Williamson
From the Plow and Harness to Precision Farming in the North American Great Plains
David E. Clay, Sharon A. Clay, Thomas DeSutter, and Cheryl Reese
History of Agriculture in the United States
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Soil Nature, Abuse, and Stewardship
Soils, Science, Society, and the Environment
Colin Robins
Soil Resources, the Delivery of Ecosystem Services and Value
David A. Robinson, Fiona Seaton, Katrina Sharps, Amy Thomas, Francis Parry Roberts, Martine van der Ploeg, Laurence Jones, Jannes Stolte, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Paula Harrison, and Bridget Emmett
Soil Tilth and Management
Lars J. Munkholm, Mansonia Pulido-Moncada, and Peter Bilson Obour
Soil Sediment Loading and Related Environmental Impacts from Farms
Vito Ferro
Measuring Soil Loss and Subsequent Nutrient and Organic Matter Loss on Farmlands
Vito Ferro and Vincenzo Bagarello
Effective Practices in Mitigating Soil Erosion from Fields
Vincenzo Bagarello
Soil Quality as Affected by Intensive Versus Conservative Agricultural Managements
Luigi Badalucco
Soil Salinization
Pichu Rengasamy
Classification and Mitigation of Soil Salinization
Tibor Tóth
Causes of Soil Salinization, Sodification, and Alkalinization
Elisabeth N. Bui

Irrigation, Nutrient Management, and Nutrient Issues
Surface Irrigation
Luis S. Pereira and José M. Gonçalves
The Qanat System of Iran and the Maghreb
Ahmad Abbasnejad; Behnam Abbasnejad
Environmental Benefits and Concerns of Center Pivot Irrigation
Leonor Rodriguez Sinobas
Subsurface (Tile) Agricultural Drainage
Gary Sands, Srinivasulu Ale, Laura Christianson, and Nathan Utt
Well Construction, Cones of Depression and Groundwater Sharing Approaches
Fidel Ribera Urenda
Terracing: From Agriculture to Multiple Ecosystem Services
Paolo Socci, Alessandro Errico, Giulio Castelli, Daniele Penna, and Federico Preti
The Role of Cover Crops in Agriculture and their Environmental Significance
Helena Aronsson
Crop Rotations, Fallowing, and their Environmental Benefits
Muhammad Farooq, Ahmad Nawaz, and Faisal Nadeem
Industrial Fertilizers in Agriculture
Gregory L. Willoughby
Agricultural Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution in Surface Waters
Marianne Bechmann and Per Stålnacke

Selected Crops, Livestock, and Environmental Impacts of Their Production
Agricultural Energy Demand and Use
David Roland-Holst
Agricultural Subsidies and the Environment
Heather Williams
Cultivation and Impact of Wheat
Peter Shewry
Cultivation and Environmental Impact of Corn
Emerson Nafziger
Cultivation and Environmental Impacts of Rice
Reiner Wassmann
Tomatoes: A Model Crop of Solanaceous Plants
Autar Mattoo, Raheel Anwar, and Tahira Fatima
Citrus History, Taxonomy, Breeding, and Fruit Quality
Paolo Inglese; Giuseppe Sortino
Cultivation and Environmental Impact of Mushrooms
Shu Ting Chang; Solomon P. Wasser
Cultivation, Improvement, and Environmental Impacts of Tea
Mainaak Mukhopadhyay and Tapan Kumar Mondal
Environmental Impacts of Tropical Soybean and Palm Oil Crops
Kimberly M. Carlson and Rachael D. Garrett
Social and Environmental Implications of Plantation Agriculture in Malaysia and Indonesia
Jean-François Bissonnette and Rodolphe De Koninck
Environmental Impacts and Benefits of Agroforestry
Shibu Jose
Dairy, Science, Society, and the Environment
Christopher Lu
CAFOs: Farm Animals and Industrialized Livestock Production
James M. MacDonald
Agricultural Methanogenesis
Alexander N. Hristov

The Big Picture, and Toward a New Global Agriculture
An Image Reconnaissance: Agricultural Patterns and Related Environmental Impacts Viewed from Space
Richard W. Hazlett and Joshua Peck
Economics, Agriculture, and Famines
Noel Russell
Food Safety in a Global Economy: Policies and Concerns
Tomiko Yamaguchi and Shun-Nan Chiang
Sustainable Coffee Production
Sarada Krishnan
Organic Farming
Theodore J. K. Radovich
Ecological Farming and the Methods of Agroecology
Miguel A. Altieri
Agroecology
Juhn Helenius, Alexander Wezel, and Charles A. Francis
Biotechnology and Agriculture
David Still
Food Waste and Biomass Recovery
Wun Jern Ng, Keke Xiao, Vinay Kumar Tyagi, Chaozhi Pan, and Leong Soon Poh
Vermiculture in Greenhouse Plants, Field Crop Production and Hydroponics
Norman Q. Arancon; Zachary Solarte
Pros and Cons of GMO Crop Farming
Rene Van Acker, Motior Rahman, and S. Zahra H. Cici
Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Africa
Laura Pereira
Crop Production Resilience through Biodiversity for Adaptation to Climate Change
Charles A. Francis
Seed Banking as Future Insurance against Crop Collapses
Fiona Hay

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About the author

About the author:

Editor-in-chief: Richard W. Hazlett

Richard W. Hazlett is a geologist and environmental scientist whose professional work has included detailed field studies of active volcanoes (in Hawai'i, Italy, Central America, and the Aleutian Islands), and the establishment of the Environmental Analysis Program at Pomona College in California, where he also helped develop and manage the Pomona Organic Farm as a new teaching and learning resource. His popular works include the books "Roadside Geology of Hawai'i," "Volcanoes: Global Perspectives" (with co-author Jack Lockwood), and numerous national park publications. In the early 1990s, he also played a leading role in developing the 26-part Annenberg telecourse "Earth Revealed" for public television, broadcast internationally, and has led field trips for interested parties to study the volcanoes of southern Italy, Russia, and the Island of Hawai'i, where he presently resides. Recently, he played a key role as a geology team leader for the U.S. Geological Survey, closely monitoring and documenting the 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano.


Contributors:

Behnam Abbasnejad
Shiraz University

Ahmad Abbasnejad
Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

Srinivasulu Ale
Texas A&M University

Miguel A. Altieri
University of California, Berkeley

Raheel Anwar
University of Agriculture Faisalabad

Norman Q. Arancon
University of Hawai'i at Hilo

Benjamin S. Arbuckle
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Helena Aronsson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Luigi Badalucco
University of Palermo

Vincenzo Bagarello
University of Palermo

Loukas Barton
University of Pittsburgh

Marianne Bechmann
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research

Robert Bettinger
University of California, Davis

Jean-François Bissonnette
University of Montreal

Peter Bogucki
Princeton University

Maria C. Bruno
Dickinson College

Elisabeth N. Bui
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Clarissa Cagnato
Université Paris Nanterre

Kimberly M. Carlson
University of Hawai'i

Stephen B. Carmody
Troy University

Giulio Castelli
University of Florence

Shu Ting Chang
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shun-Nan Chiang
University of California, Santa Cruz

Laura Christianson
University of Illinois

S. Zahra H. Cici
University of Guelph

David E. Clay
South Dakota State University

Sharon A. Clay
South Dakota State University

Charles R. Clement
National Institute of Amazonian Research

Rodolphe De Koninck
University of Montreal

Tim Denham
Australian National University

Thomas DeSutter
North Dakota State University

Bridget Emmett
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Alessandro Errico
University of Florence

Muhammad Farooq
University of Agriculture Faisalabad

Tahira Fatima
Purdue University

Vito Ferro
University of Palermo

Charles A. Francis
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dorian Q. Fuller
University College London

Rachael D. Garrett
Boston University

Raven Garvey
University of Michigan

José M. Gonçalves
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra

Paula Harrison
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Fiona Hay
Aarhus University

Richard W. Hazlett
University of Hawai'i at Hilo

Juha Helenius
University of Helsinki

Simon Holdaway
University of Auckland

Kandace D. Hollenbach
University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Alexander N. Hristov
Pennsylvania State University

Paolo Inglese
University of Palermo

Laurence Jones
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Shibu Jose
University of Missouri

Sarada Krishnan
Denver Botanic Gardens

Vinay Kumar Tyagi
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Poh Leong Soon
Nanyang Technological University

Helena Lima
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Noa Kekuewa Lincoln
University of Hawai'i M?noa

Christopher Lu
University of Hawai'i at Hilo

James M. MacDonald
United States Department of Agriculture

John M. Marston
Boston University

Autar Mattoo
United States Department of Agriculture

Gilton Mendes dos Santos
Federal University of Amazonas

Tapan Kumar Mondal
National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology

Claide Moraes
Federal University of Western Pará

Christopher Morgan
University of Nevada, Reno

Mainaak Mukhopadhyay
University of Kalyani

Lars J. Munkholm
Aarhus University

Charlene Murphy
University College London

Faisal Nadeem
University of Agriculture Faisalabad

Emerson Nafziger
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ahmad Nawaz
Bahauddin Zakariya University

Eduardo Neves
University of São Paulo

Wun Jern Ng
Nanyang Technological University

Deborah L. Nichols
Dartmouth College

Peter Bilson Obour
Aarhus University

Chaozhi Pan
Nanyang Technological University

Francis Parry Roberts
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Joshua Peck
United States Department of Agriculture

Daniele Penna
University of Florence

Laura Pereira
Stellenbosch University

Luis S. Pereira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia

Rebecca Phillipps
University of Auckland

Leong Soon Poh
Nanyang Technological University

Federico Preti
University of Florence

Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
University of Leicester

Mansonia Pulido-Moncada
Aarhus University

Theodore J. K. Radovich
University of Hawai'i

Motior Rahman
University of Guelph

Cheryl Reese
South Dakota State University

Pichu Rengasamy
University of Adelaide

Fidel Ribera Urenda
Fundación Centro Internacional de Hidrología Subterránea

Simone Riehl
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Colin Robins
Claremont McKenna College

David A. Robison
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Leonor Rodriguez Sinobas
Technical University of Madrid

David Roland-Holst
University of California, Berkeley

William Ruddiman
University of Virginia

Aurélie Salavert
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Philip Carl Salzman
McGill University

Gary Sands
University of Minnesota

Fiona Seaton
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Katrina Sharps
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Glenn H. Shepard Jr.
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Peter Shewry
Rothamsted Research

Alan Simmons
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Andrew B. Smith
University of Capetown

Paolo Socci
Fattoria Di Lamole

Zachary Solarte
University of Hawai'i at Hilo

Giuseppe Sortino
University of Palermo

Per Stålnacke
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research

David Still
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Jannes Stolte
Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research

Amy Thomas
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Tibor Tóth
Hungarian Academy of Science

Shannon Tushingham
Washington State University

Nathan Utt
University of Minnesota

Rene Van Acker
University of Guelph

Martine van de Ploeg
Wageningen University

Peter Vitousek
Stanford University

Solomon P. Wasser
University of Haifa

Reiner Wassmann
International Rice Research Institute

Alexander Wezel
ISARA Lyon

Heather Williams
Pomona College

Tom Williamson
University of East Anglia

Gregory L. Willoughby
Helena Chemical Company

Keke Xiao
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Tomiko Yamaguchi
International Christian University

Product details

ISBN : 9780190496616

Author:

Richard W. Hazlett

Pages: 1632 Pages

Format: Hardcover

Size: 178 x 254 mm

Pub date: Oct 2020

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