Agricultural Chemicals and the Environment

Issues and Potential Solutions
Herausgeber: Hester, R E; Harrison, R M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Updated to include the latest in agricultural developments, including genetically modified crops, this book is ideal for students, academics, farmers, landowners and legislators.

Produktdetails

• Issues in Environmental Science and Technology
• Verlag: Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2 New edition
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781782626909
• ISBN-10: 1782626905
• Artikelnr.: 45057278

Autorenporträt

Roy Harrison OBE is Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Birmingham. In 2004 he was appointed OBE for services to environmental science. Professor Harrison's research interests lie in the field of environment and human health. His main specialism is in air pollution, from emissions through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations to exposure and effects on human health. Much of this work is designed to inform the development of policy. Ron Hester is an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of York. In addition to his research work on a wide range of applications of vibrational spectroscopy, he has been actively involved in environmental chemistry and was a founder member of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Environment Group. His current activities are mainly as an editor and as an external examiner and assessor on courses, individual promotions, and departmental/subject area evaluations both in the UK and abroad.

Inhaltsangabe

Integrating Technologies to Minimize Environmental Impacts
The Environmental Impact of Fertiliser Nutrients on Freshwater
Pesticides
Agroecology and Organic Farming as Approaches to Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Chemicals
Crop Biotechnology for Weed and Insect Control
Aquaculture
Horticulture