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Author Conway, Gordon R

Title Unwelcome Harvest : Agriculture and pollution
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (677 pages)
Series Natural Resource Management Set
Natural Resource Management Set
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
Pollution -- Physiological effect.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Agricultural pollution -- Health aspects
Pollution -- Physiological effect
Form Electronic book
Author Pretty, Jules N
ISBN 9781134063581
113406358X