Description |
1 online resource (677 pages) |
Series |
Natural Resource Management Set |
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Natural Resource Management Set
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Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Glossary for Units of Measurement; List of Tables, Boxes and Figures; Preface; 01-Introduction to Agriculture and Pollution; 02-Pesticides and the Environment; 03-Pesticides and Human Health; 04-Fertilizers and the Environment; 05-Fertilizers and Health; 06-Farm Wastes; 07-Agriculture as a Global Polluter; 08-The Impact of Air Pollution on Agriculture; 09-The Imapct of Land and Water Pollution on Agriculture; 10-The Control of Pollution; 11-Agriculture Without Pollution; Index |
Summary |
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the?blue-baby? syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and Third World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture and pollution |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Agricultural pollution -- Health aspects
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Pollution -- Physiological effect.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Agricultural pollution -- Health aspects
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Pollution -- Physiological effect
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Pretty, Jules N
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ISBN |
9781134063581 |
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113406358X |
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