Modelling the environmental impacts of agriculture, focusing on oil palm

Modelling the environmental impacts of agriculture, focusing on oil palmCultivation of crops affects the environment via flows of energy and materials. Impacts are felt in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, surrounding terrestrial ecosystems and the field itself. Models are useful tools for improving our understanding of the processes and predicting how they might be affected by changes in management. Current models range from simple indicators of risk or impact, based on empirical relationships, to dynamic process based

usually attributed to the Victorians

Red Sun is a two-hander

as well as for all readers of English poetry

everyday practice

This volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956

Genealogies of the West presents a new look at the West by tracing the still-recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges it faces

whether historically or in the present

the renewal of the story of Gallipoli by historians and film-makers (notably Peter Weir's 1981 film starring Mel Gibson) has profoundly altered the national sense of identity and society's perceptions of the armed forces

archaeological

An intensive urban survey sheds light on the city's 4th-century BCE fortifications and harbors

is an impressively layered and experimental book that follows the story of Édouard X

This chapter explores the current state of research