- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Nature / Ecology
Full Description
Sustainability in agriculture and associated primary industries, which are both energy-intensive, is crucial for the development of any country. Increasing scarcity and resulting high fossil fuel prices combined with the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make the improvement of energy efficient farming and increased use of renewable energy essential.
This book provides a technological and scientific endeavor to assist society and farming communities in different regions and scales to improve their productivity and sustainability. To fulfill future needs of a modern sustainable agriculture, this book addresses highly actual topics providing innovative, effective and more sustainable solutions for agriculture by using sustainable, environmentally friendly, renewable energy sources and modern energy efficient, cost-improved technologies. The book highlights new areas of research, and further R&D needs. It helps to improve food security for the rapidly growing world population and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use in agriculture, which presently contributes 22% of the global carbon dioxide emissions. This book provides a source of information, stimuli and incentives for what and how new and energy efficient technologies can be applied as effective tools and solutions in agricultural production to satisfy the continually increasing demand for food and fibre in an economically sustainable way, while contributing to global climate change mitigation. It will be useful and inspiring to decision makers working in different authorities, professionals, agricultural engineers, researchers, and students concerned with agriculture and related primay industries, sustainable energy development and climate change mitigation projects.
Contents
Section 1: Introduction 1. Towards a sustainable energy technologies based agriculture
Section 2: Energy efficiency and management 2. Global energy resources, supply and demand, energy security and on-farm energy efficiency 3. Energy in crop production systems 4. The fossil energy use and CO2 emissions budget for Canadian agriculture 5. Energy efficiency technologies for sustainable agriculture and food processing 6. Energy-smart food - technologies, practices and policies 7. Energy, water and food: exploring links in irrigated cropping systems 8. Energy use and sustainability of intensive livestock production 9. Diesel engine as prime power for agriculture: emissions reduction for sustainable mechanization
Section 3: Biofuels:10. Biofuels from microalgae 11. Biodiesel emissions and performance 12. Biogas 13. Thermal gasification of waste biomass from agriculture production for energy purposes 14. An innovative perspective: Transition towards a bio-based economy
Section 4: Access to energy 15. Increasing energy access in rural areas of developing countries
