Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases. There is an urgent need to make oil palm cultivation more efficient and environmentally sustainable. This collection reviews the key research addressing this challenge. Volume 1 begins by reviewing trends in production and key challenges facing the sector. Part 2 focusses on developments in understanding oil palm physiology, genetics and genetic diversity and their application to improved breeding techniques. The final part of the book discusses developments in cultivation practices. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, this collection will be a standard reference for researchers, oil palm growers, palm oil processors as well as government and non-governmental agencies responsible for more sustainable oil palm cultivation. Volume 1 is accompanied by Volume 2 which covers pests and diseases, quality and sustainability issues

Forests provide vital ecosystem services crucial to human well-being and sustainable development, and have an important role to play in achieving the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little attention, however, has yet focused on how efforts to achieve the SDGs will impact forests and forest-related livelihoods, and how these impacts may, in turn, enhance or undermine the contributions of forests to climate and development. This book discusses the conditions that influence how SDGs are implemented and prioritised, and provides a systematic, multidisciplinary global assessment of interlinkages among the SDGs and their targets, increasing understanding of potential synergies and unavoidable trade-offs between goals. Ideal for academic researchers, students and decision-makers interested in sustainable development in the context of forests, this book will provide invaluable knowledge for efforts undertaken to reach the SDGs. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Los lagos someros son ecosistemas acuaticos de gran diversidad biologica, que se encuentran en estrecha relacion con las actividades humanas. El aumento de los nutrientes en el lago, consecuencia de las actividades humanas en la cuenca es denominado eutrofizacion antropica. La eutrofizacion se refleja en cambios de la comunidad fitoplanctonica, como el desarrollo de floraciones toxicas frecuentemente asociadas al grupo de las cianobacterias, afectando negativamente la calidad de agua para multiples usos y servicios ecosistemicos. El estudio del fitoplancton y las caracteristicas ambientales que determinan su composicion y abundancia es de fundamental importancia para el conocimiento y manejo de lagos someros. En el presente trabajo se analizan los patrones de composicion y abundancia de fitoplancton asi como las principales variables ambientales asociadas en cinco lagos someros de Uruguay en un gradiente de estado trofico. Los lagos someros de Uruguay, son frecuentemente utilizados como fuente de agua potable, encontrandose en riesgo de deterioro ambiental debido al incremento en las demandas de agua y desarrollo urbanistico-industrial."