Windbreak Technology

Windbreak Technology
Author: J.R. Brandle
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0444600868

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the first International Symposium on Windbreak Technology, summarising the available worldwide literature on windbreaks and the response, both positive and negative, to wind protection. State-of-the-art information is presented on general design criteria, and principles of planting and establishment for a wide range of conditions and objectives. It provides descriptive information of tree and shrub species for arid, semi-arid, temperate and tropical areas, and their use in windbreaks.

An Introduction to Agroforestry

An Introduction to Agroforestry
Author: P. K. R. Nair
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1993-07-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780792321354

This college-level textbook summarizes the state of current knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of agroforestry. The book, organized into 25 chapters in six sections, reviews the developments in agroforestry during the past 15 years and describes the accomplishments in the application of biophysical (plant and soil related) and socioeconomic sciences to agroforestry. Although the major focus of the book is on the tropics, where the practice and potential of agroforestry are particularly promising, the developments in temperate zone agroforestry are also discussed. This text is recommended for students, teachers, and researchers in agroforestry, farming systems, and tropical land use.