Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, Richard J. Jackson 2011 Ten years ago the editors of this book confronted a striking revelation: the manner in which we design and build our communities—where we spend virtually our entire lives—has profound impacts on our physical, mental, social, environmental, and economic well-being.
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Stéphane Bellon • Servane Penvern Editors 2014 Europe has been the pacesetter for organic farming for 40 years. The fact that between 10 and 20 % of the farms and the agricultural land area have become certified organic in a few leading countries has attracted the attention of the scientific community and of policy makers. […]
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T.K. Lim 2014 Volume 7, Flowers This book continues as volume 7 of a multicompendium on Edible Medicinal and Non- Medicinal Plants. It covers plants with edible flowers whose floral parts including the stalk and flower nectar are eaten as conventional or functional food, as spice, and may provide a source of food colourant, additive […]
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Gonghuan Yang • Dafang Zhuang Editors 2014 The Atlas of the Huai River Basin Water Environment: Digestive Cancer Mortality is one outcome of the “ Evaluation of the Correlation between Cancer and the Huai River Water Environment ”, a study conducted under the Eleventh Five-Year Science and Technology Support Program. The atlas is an important […]
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Annemarie Surlykke • Paul E. Nachtigall Richard R. Fay • Arthur N. Popper Editors 2014 The following preface is the one that we published in Volume 1 of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research back in 1992. As anyone reading the original preface, or the many users of the series, will note, we have far […]
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