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Horticulture: Principles and Practical Applications

Science & Math

Poincelot, Raymond P.

Technology

Pearson College Div

This comprehensive introduction to the emerging discipline of sustainable horticulture provides readers with the foundations of horticultural science that underlie all forms of horticulture from conventional through sustainable to organic. The book leads readers through practices and production, and provides the necessary information to support a more sustainable and environmentally friendly horticulture. The volume explains moving to sustainability, provides an introduction to horticultural science and horticultural practices including plant propagation, crop breeding, biotechnology, energy sustainability and sustaining soil, water and environment, home horticulture basics, integrated pest management and an introduction to horticultural crops. For horticultural professionals, policy makers, consumers and future farmers.

POINCELOT: SUSTAINABLE HORTICULT _c

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Pearson

People-Plant Relationships: Setting Research Priorities

Presenting the latest research on cross-cultural people-plant relationships, this volume conveys the psychological, physiological, and social responses to plants and the significant role these responses play in improved physical and mental health. With chapters written by field experts, it identifies research priorities and methodologies and outlines the steps for developing a research agenda to aid horticulturalists in their work with social scientists to gain a better understanding of people-plant relationships. This resource covers a wide array of topics including home horticulture and Lyme disease, indoor plants and pollution reduction, and plants and therapy.

Politics & Social Sciences

Flagler, Joel

Social Sciences

CRC-Press

Gardening Indoors with House Plants

Emmaus, PA Rodale Press

Explains why digging is unnecessary for a healthy garden, describes alternative tools and techniques, and discusses transplants, mulches, fertilizers, watering systems, and pest protection

No-Dig, No-Weed Gardening

Rodale Pr

Many modern agroecosystems are unstable as a consequence of constant human intervention in crop systems which ignore ecological principles. Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems explores entomological aspects of agriculture and analyzes the ecological basis for the maintenance of biodiversity in agriculture. Assembling a wide variety of information on the subject of agricultural diversity for pest suppression, Altieri clearly presents the information and research to expand your understanding of basic principles of pest management. This enables you to devise practical strategies for your specific pest management needs. Altieri describes the theory and practice of enhancing biological pest control in agricultural systems by managing vegetational diversity in the forms of multiple cropping, cover cropping, rotations, and other spatial and temporal designs. Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems stresses the importance of assessing each situation separately and developing long-term vegetation management strategies with regard to socioeconomic and cultural factors. It focuses on the ways in which biodiversity can contribute to the design of pest-stable agroecosystems. Altieri includes studies on intercropping, cover cropping, weed management, and crop-field border vegetation manipulation and covers the effects of these diverse systems on pest population density and the mechanisms underlying pest reduction in polycultures.As an amazing amount of research on biodiversity has emerged during the past 15 years, Altieri addresses important topics of concern to those involved in agriculture, such as : 
<ul>
<li> ecological theory and pest management </li>
<li> the role of plant diversity on the biology of beneficial insects </li>
<li> insect regulation in diverse agroecosystems </li>
<li> manipulation of plant diversity in agroecosystems </li>
<li> ecological and socioeconomic implicationsThe author's considerable theoretical and practical background from years of research and implementation work in California and Latin America will benefit all who read Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems. Private consultants (IPM practitioners), researchers, university students, and farmers interested in IPM, pest control, and biological control will find much of value in book's coverage of entomology, insect ecology, biological control, and vegetation management.</li>
</ul>

Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems

Altieri, Miguel A.

Biological Sciences

The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture

Explore the benefits of and necessity for sustainable agriculture!Here is an easy-to-read, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. It is the first book to synthesize the goals of sustainable agriculture into eight comprehensive steps. The Next Green Revolution presents a convincing critique of our current agricultural system and an introduction to an alternative system which gives more consideration to future generations. Interwoven through the book are Dr. Horne's reflections on social justice, quality of life, and how farmers and rural communities are inextricably linked.The Next Green Revolution draws on the unique perspective of Dr. James E. Horne, President of a leading nonprofit agriculture organization, the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture. It is inspired by his experience as a traditional agriculturalist and educator coming to grips with the failings of the conventional system and searching for an alternative. Writing in the first person, he describes growing up in a sharecropper family in Oklahoma, running his own ranch, and consulting with farmers as an agricultural economist. He shares what he learned as the Kerr Center experimented with new “sustainable” approaches to old problems on the Center's ranch/farm, and his experiences working with the USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. With The Next Green Revolution, you will explore: 
<ul>
<li> the major problems of contemporary industrial agriculture </li>
<li> definitions of sustainable agriculture </li>
<li> the historical roots of sustainable agriculture </li>
<li> the politics of sustainable agriculture </li>
<li> sustainable agriculture practices </li>
<li> changes needed to encourage a sustainable agriculture</li>
</ul>and the eight steps to sustainable agriculture, which address: <ul>
<li> soil health and erosion </li>
<li> water quality and use </li>
<li> organic waste management </li>
<li> crop and livestock adaptation </li>
<li> biodiversity </li>
<li> environmentally benign pest management </li>
<li> energy use </li>
<li> farm diversification </li>
<li> profitability</li>
</ul>The Next Green Revolution is a well-researched introduction to the field, written with a minimum of jargon.

The Next Green Revolution

Horne, Jim

Mcdermott, Maura

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