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Ethnobiology is a new discipline studying the knowledge and traditional practices of the indigenous and ethnic societies of world in conservation and use of biodiversity for human health and nutrition and using that knowledge for bioprospecting and biodevelopment. Diverse ethnic societies occupy a large areas on the earth especially those which are rich in biodiversity and there is an intimate relationship between the ethnic diversity and biological diversity. ...
This book deals with the applied microbiology of pollution and its control in connection with public health and hygiene. Each chapter includes a self contained review, fully updated and substantially enlarged with regard to the first edition, including a large number of recent references to primary sources of information. The book covers a wide range of subjects and includes practical aspects such as sewage treatment, and also aspects which at the present moment ...
This is a rare collection of selected pieces of prose including history, biography, fiction, essays and literary criticism. It deals with a wide range of interesting, stimulating, educative and informative prose pieces. Though most of the pieces of prose presented here were written in the beginning of the 19 century, they still retain their flavour and values which are worth clinging to in a human society. One can see a filigree of life and its fascinating facets ...
In the coming decades and by the year 2020, there will be an extra. 1.5. billion people to be fed. This is another challenge, and as great as it was faced 40-50 years ago which necessitated the first green revolution. This came as a 'mixed blessing' for mankind. If the increasing threat of soil degradation, food contamination, crop genetic erosion and food shortages in world has to be avoided, there has to be a pragmatic changes in the farming policies and ...