Preface
Chapter 1. Hemp Production; Krystyna Żuk-Golaszewska and Janusz Golaszewski
Chapter 2. Traditional and New Applications of Hemp; Grégorio Crini, Eric Lichtfouse, Gilles Chanet and Nadia Morin-Crini
Chapter 3. Industrial Hemp in the USA: A Brief Synopsis; John H. Fike, Heather Darby, Burton L. Johnson, Larry Smart and David W. Williams
Chapter 4. Hemp Fibers in Serbia: Cultivation, Processing, and Applications; Biljana Pejic, Marija Vukčevic and Mirjana Kostic
Chapter 5. Physico-chemical Characterization and Development of Hemp Aggregates for Highly Insulating Construction Building Materials; Yunhong Jiang, Atif Hussain, Davoud M. Heidari, Michael Lawrence and Martin Ansell
Chapter 6. Modelling of the Hygrothermal Behaviour of Hemp Concrete; Yacine Aït Oumeziane, Florence Collet, Christophe Lanos and Bassam Moujalled
Chapter 7. Hempseed Protein: Processing and Functional Properties; Anne Pihlanto, Markus Nurmi and Sari Mäkinen
Chapter 8. Functional and Bioactive Properties of Hemp Proteins; Tamara Dapčevic-Hadnađev, Miroslav Hadnađev, Manda Dizdar and Natasa Jovanovic Ljeskovic
Chapter 9. Hemp Seed as a Source of Food Proteins; François Potina and Rémi Saurel
Chapter 10. Hemp Fibers for Wastewater Treatment; Lavinia Tofan, Carmen Paduraru and Carmen Teodosiu
About the Author: Dr. Grégorio Crini is environmental polymerist at University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon. His research activities focus on the design of novel polymer networks and the environmental aspects of polysaccharide chemistry. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and edited 12 books. He is a highly cited researcher with a total number of citations exceeding 10,000, h-index: 34.
Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.
