Pesticides And The Environment

Author : A.G. Hornsby,R.Don Wauchope,A. Herner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461223160

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Pesticide Properties in the Environment by A.G. Hornsby,R.Don Wauchope,A. Herner Pdf

Identifying and remediating environmental contamination is a complex and very expensive problem worldwide. Pollution of soil and water by pesticides is a significant issue that persists for years after the pesticide application ceases. Pesticide Properties in the Environment is a unique database compiled from extensive literature searches. It presents data on hundreds of pesticides, including their common, commercial, and scientific names, their chemical formulas, and their environmental properties including water solubility, field half-life, sorption coefficient, and vapor pressure. All data is carefully cited to original references, and is presented both in printed form and as an electronic database. Pesticide Properties in the Environment will be invaluable for environmental scientists, engineers, and consultants, as well as soil scientists and water quality specialists.

Author : Hamir S. Rathore,Leo M.L. Nollet
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439836255

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Pesticides by Hamir S. Rathore,Leo M.L. Nollet Pdf

Pesticides play an important role in controlling pests that carry diseases and threaten crop production. In recent years, however, there has been increased concern about the adverse impacts of pesticides and their degradation products on public health and the environment. A considerable amount of work is being done to develop nonchemical methods of

Author : Willis B. Wheeler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780824743727

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Pesticides in Agriculture and the Environment by Willis B. Wheeler Pdf

Discussing the range of effects of pesticides on food and human safety, water quality, wildlife, and pest management, this book explores the agricultural, economic, and regulatory factors that affect pesticide use. It examines crop and pest ecology, integrated pest management principles, and emerging analytical tools to improve the efficacy and cost-efficiency of pest control. Expert contributions describe the current status of pesticides issues and those related to pest management. The book summarizes advances and trends in the crop protection industry, such as integrated pest management, hybrid seed and generic pesticide production, improved pesticide formulations, and plant biotechnology.

Author : Pardeep Singh,Suruchi Singh,Mika Sillanpaa
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323904902

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Pesticides in the Natural Environment by Pardeep Singh,Suruchi Singh,Mika Sillanpaa Pdf

Pesticides in the Natural Environment: Sources, Health Risks, and Remediation presents the direct and indirect impacts of the use of pesticides on the environment, human health, and agriculture. The book explores sustainable alternatives to pesticide use, along with policies for regulations and remediation techniques. Bridging the gap between regulations and the tangible environmental threat, the book proposes practical solutions while also providing important context on the hazards of pesticides. It highlights the influence on climate change, offering a holistic perspective for researchers in environmental science, policymakers, and land managers.The book introduces pesticides and their applications, then goes on to cover their impact on various ecosystems in the natural environment. Health risks are covered, followed by various remediation techniques, such as biological processes, phytoremediation, and chemical treatments. Describes the impact of pesticides on the environment, human health and the food chain as well as regulations and policies to address the impact Presents remediation strategies and techniques for pesticides in a variety of ecosystems, along with potential alternatives Includes case studies to illustrate the proper management of pesticides and intervention

Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141994000

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Pdf

Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.

Author : Shahamat U. Khan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483257068

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Pesticides in the Soil Environment by Shahamat U. Khan Pdf

Fundamental Aspects of Pollution Control and Environmental Science, 5: Pesticides in the Soil Environment focuses on the effects of pesticide use on the quality of soil. The manuscript first offers information on the classification of pesticides and physicochemical processes affecting pesticides in soil. Topics include herbicides, fungicides, movement in soil, chemical conversion and degradation, and photodecomposition. The text then elaborates on microbial processes affecting pesticides in soil, including fumigants, fungicides, and insecticides. The text examines the occurrence and persistence of pesticide residues in soil and minimizing pesticide residues in soil. Discussions focus on persistence, bound residues, plant uptake, short residual residues, and eliminating pesticide residues. The text is a dependable reference for readers interested in the effects of pesticide use on the quality of soil.

Author : Hwei-Hsien Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Pesticides
ISBN : 089118791X

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Pesticides in the Soil Environment by Hwei-Hsien Cheng Pdf

Pesticides in the soil environment - an overview. Pesticide sources to the soil and principles of spray physics. The retention processes: mechanisms. Sorption estimates for modeling. Abiotic transformations in water, sediments, and soil. Biological transformation processes of pesticides. Volatilization and vapor transport processes. Organic chemical transport to Groundwater. Movement of pesticides into surface waters. Modeling pesticide fate in soils. Efficacy of soil-applied pesticides. Impact of pesticides on the environment. Risk/benefit and regulations. Chemical index.

Author : David Pimentel,Hugh Lehman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780412035814

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The Pesticide Question by David Pimentel,Hugh Lehman Pdf

Pesticides have contributed impressively to our present-day agricultural productivity, but at the same time they are at the center of serious concerns about safety, health, and the environment. Increasingly, the public wonders whether the benefits of pesticides - `the perfect red apple' - outweigh the costs of environmental pollution, human illness, and the destruction of animals and our habitat. Scientists and government officials are suspected of promoting commercial interests rather than protecting human welfare.

Author : Graham Matthews
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118976012

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Pesticides by Graham Matthews Pdf

Crop protection continues to be an important component of modern farming to maintain food production to feed an expanding human population, but considerable changes have occurred in the regulation of pesticides in Europe in the last decade. The aim has been to reduce their impact on people and the environment. This has resulted in a major reduction in the number of chemicals approved for application on crops. In other parts of the world, a continuing expansion in the growing of genetically modified crops has also changed the pattern of pesticide use. In this second edition, Graham Matthews, updates how pesticides are registered and applied and the techniques used to mitigate their effects in the environment. Information on operator safety, protection of workers in crops treated with pesticides and spray drift affecting those who live in farming areas is also discussed. By bringing together the most recent research on pesticides in a single volume, this book provides a vital up to date resource for agricultural scientists, agronomists, plant scientists, plant pathologists, entomologists, environmental scientists, public health personnel, toxicologists and others working in the agrochemical industry and governments. It should assist development of improvements in harmonising regulation of pesticides in countries with limited resources for registration of pesticides.

Author : Marcelo L. Larramendy,Sonia Soloneski
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781839626470

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Pesticides by Marcelo L. Larramendy,Sonia Soloneski Pdf

The book, "Pesticides - Use and Misuse and their Impact in the Environment", contains relevant information on diverse pesticides encountered in both anthropogenic and natural environments. This book provides valuable information about the toxicity of several agrochemicals that can negatively influence the health of humans and ecosystems.

Author : Prabhu L. Pingali,Pierre A. Roger
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792395218

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Impact of Pesticides on Farmer Health and the Rice Environment by Prabhu L. Pingali,Pierre A. Roger Pdf

The book covers the various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behavior, degradation, and impacts in wetland ricefields, and presents the results of surveys conducted in the Philippines and Thailand. It includes both bibliographic reviews and selected aspects of the experimental results of a research project on pesticide impacts in wetland ricefields. The first phase of the `Pesticide Impact' project was developed in the Philippines from 1989 to 1991. It was a multidisciplinary/collaborative approach involving scientists from IRRI, NRI (England), ORSTOM (France), UPLB (Philippines) who studied the effects of pesticides on the environment and on farmers' health, and the economical aspects of their use.

Author : G. R. Stephenson,Keith R. Solomon
Publisher : Young Writers
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Pesticides
ISBN : 0980884705

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Pesticides and the Environment by G. R. Stephenson,Keith R. Solomon Pdf

Author : Graham Matthews
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781405172981

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Pesticides by Graham Matthews Pdf

Over the last five decades pesticides have undoubtedly helped toincrease agricultural production and control vectors of disease,however the environmental impact of long term agro-chemical use hasbeen cause for concern along with the effects on human health. In Pesticides, Graham Matthews begins by looking at thedevelopmental history of pesticides, and how crop protection wasachieved before they were in use, how pesticides are registered foruse and what happens to pesticides in food and the environment.Pesticide application and operator safety is investigated and thefuture of pesticides in light of the development of geneticallymodified crops is explored. Provides commercially important information for theagro-chemical industry Addresses all aspects of public concern relating to humanhealth and the environment, including spray drift, bystander,resident and worker exposure Looks at the future of pesticides in light of the increasingprevalence of genetically modified crops Collecting together the most recent research in the area in asingle volume, this book is a vital resource for agriculturalscientists, agronomists, plant scientists, plant pathologists,entomologists, environmental scientists, public health personnel,toxicologists, crop protection personnel and all those involved inthe agrochemical industry and government pesticide registration andlegislation.

Author : Sonia Soloneski
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789535112174

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Pesticides by Sonia Soloneski Pdf

The edited book Pesticides - Toxic Aspects contains an overview of attractive researchers of pesticide toxicology that covers the hazardous effects of common chemical pesticide agents employed every day in our agricultural practices. The combination of experimental and theoretical pesticide investigations of current interest will make this book of significance to researchers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students who make use of those different investigations to understand the toxic aspects of pesticides. We hope that this book will continue to meet the expectations and needs of all interested in different aspects of pesticide toxicity.

Author : C. Edwards
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461589426

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Environmental Pollution by Pesticides by C. Edwards Pdf

The persistent organic pesticides have saved millions of lives by controlling human disease vectors and by greatly increasing the yields of agricultural crops. However, in recent years man has become ever more conscious of the way in which his environment is becoming increasingly polluted by chemicals that may harm plants, animals or even himself. Amongst these chemicals the organochlorine insecticides have been well to the fore as a major cause of anxiety to ecologists, not only because they persist so long, but also because of the readiness with which they are taken up into the bodies of living organisms, especially the fatty tissues of both animals and humans. The extent and seriousness of the potential hazards due to these chemicals still remains to be fully defined. Our information on the occur rence of residues in the various parts of the environment is very uneven and localized. For instance, whereas we have a great deal of data on residues in North America, we know virtually nothing about the extent of pesticide contamination in Africa, South America and much of Asia, although large amounts of organochlorine insecticides have been used in these areas.