Plant Adaptation to Environmental Stress

Plant Adaptation to Environmental Stress
Author: L. Fowden
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1993-09-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Provides a broad coverage of how plants respond and adjust to both natural and anthrogenic environmental variables, and identifies unifying concepts spanning levels of organization from the subcellular to whole natural plant communities. Among the specific topics are climatic constraints on crop production, plants under salt and water stress, the effects of stress on the genome, and a dialectic approach to plant strategies. The 18 papers are from an October 1992 symposium (site not cited). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dereliction of Duty

Dereliction of Duty
Author: Robert Patterson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2012-01-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1596986786

Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson exposes the terrifying, behind-the-scenes story of the years when the most irresponsible President in our history had his finger on the nuclear trigger. Dereliction of Duty is the inside story of the damage Bill Clinton did to the U.S. military and how he compromised our national security. From his laughable salutes, to his arrogant, anti-military staffers, the message came through loud and clear: the Clinton Administration had nothing but contempt for America’s men and women in uniform. For two years, Patterson was the White House military aide who carried the “nuclear football,” which provides the President with remote nuclear strike capabilities. What he witnessed is shocking. Dereliction of Duty is the book every American concerned about our national security has been waiting for—written by a military man who was an eyewitness inside the Clinton White House, and who can no longer in good conscience keep silent.

Food loss estimation: SDG 12.3.1a data and modelling approach

Food loss estimation: SDG 12.3.1a data and modelling approach
Author: Taglioni, C.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9251385033

Food loss reduction is part of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 "Responsible Production and Consumption" in Target 12.3: "By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses". The SDG indicator monitoring food loss is under the custodianship of FAO, which developed an international food loss estimation model to report food losses and tackle scarce data availability and limited country-produced survey-based data. This paper presents first the resulting global food loss percentage for 2021, the percentages by SDG regions and food groups, describes available input data gathered from different sources (official, external databases and literature), and the methodology used to produce the estimates.

Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements and Landscapes of Salisbury Plain

Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements and Landscapes of Salisbury Plain
Author: Michael Fulford
Publisher: Wessex Archaeology Reports
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781874350422

This volume presents the results of a series of fieldwalking surveys and excavations of Iron Age and Romano-British sites in two areas of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Altogether some 18 new settlement sites were discovered of which 13 were Romano-British, three were predominantly Iron Age, and two produced evidence of Middle-Late Bronze Age occupation. Small-scale excavation was undertaken at eight enclosures and field systems, accompanied by targeted environmental sampling.An increase in enclosure through to the later Iron Age was revealed, when there was evidence for settlement abandonment followed by a further development of unenclosed settlement and the emergence of nucleated villages such as Chisenbury Warren in the Late Iron Age and through the Romano-British period.