Horticulture: Plants for People and Places

The trilogy 'Horticulture: Plants for People and Places' encapsulates and explains the fundamentals of what the disciplines of 'horticulture' and 'horticultural science' embrace and encompass currently. Those outside these disciplines, and not infrequently some inside them, find difficulty in understanding and explaining the broad-church which is horticulture and horticultural science.

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The trilogy ‘Horticulture: Plants for People and Places’ encapsulates and explains the fundamentals of what the disciplines of ‘horticulture’ and ‘horticultural science’ embrace and encompass currently. Those outside these disciplines, and not infrequently some inside them, find difficulty in understanding and explaining the broad-church which is horticulture and horticultural science.

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“The 39 chapters of the trilogy, written by 108 authors in total, are grouped as Production Horticulture (Volume 1), Environmental Horticulture (Volume 2) and Social Horticulture (Volume 3). … The editors as well as the authors of all the chapters have produced a triad of books that for many years will keep its value as a standard work on horticulture in its broadest sense.” (Robert J. Bogers, Chronica Horticulturae, Vol. 55 (1), 2015)

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"The 39 chapters of the trilogy, written by 108 authors in total, are grouped as Production Horticulture (Volume 1), Environmental Horticulture (Volume 2) and Social Horticulture (Volume 3). ... The editors as well as the authors of all the chapters have produced a triad of books that for many years will keep its value as a standard work on horticulture in its broadest sense." (Robert J. Bogers, Chronica Horticulturae, Vol. 55 (1), 2015)

Product details

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2013
• EAN: 9789401786409
• ISBN: 978-94-0-178640-9
• No. of pages: 750
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 245 mm x 71 mm
• Weight: 2502 g
• Illustrations: 750 p. 323 illus., 234 illus. in color. 3 volume-set.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology; B, Business, Sociology, Society & social sciences, Business and Management, Environment, Business & management, biotechnology, Social Sciences, The environment, Agriculture, Business and Management, general, Social Sciences, general, Food Science, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Management science, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Food—Biotechnology, Food & beverage technology, Agronomy;Environment;Horticulture;Production;Science;Society