Plant parasitic nematodes are major pests of agricultural crops and cause huge monetary losses.  Meer

There is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'. As a result, academics, government officials and industry leaders are calling for new approaches and fresh ideas.  Meer

Fully revised and in full colour, this third edition reflects on the impact of nematodes on food security and climate change interactions and includes a new chapter on nematode soil biodiversity in health.  Meer

�A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st century� Anna Jung, Director General, European Food Information Council �Professor Ragnar L�fstedt has once again produced a most interesting book on risk management and trust, well-based on theory and built on empirical findings� Mikael Karlsson, President, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation �Highlights the difficult balancing task facing risk regulators.  Meer

The way things flow: exploring the movement of bodies, data and goods. Mobility shapes society in countless ways.  Meer

In Public Influence, political scientist Mira Sucharov walks readers through the ins and outs of op-ed writing and social media engagement.  Meer

This accessible, beautifully illustrated guide gives you the tools to be confident in how to identify non-native invasive plants in Britain and Ireland.  Meer

The Network Society; the essential guide to the past, current consequences and future of digital communication, remaining an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society.  Meer

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism.  Meer

Part 1 of this volume reviews advances in research on key aspects of poultry behaviour and welfare monitoring. Part 2 discusses particular welfare issues affecting broilers and layers such as housing and environmental enrichment as well as problems such as injurious pecking and bone health.  Meer

The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century.  Meer