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Author : Dana Cordell,Linköpings universitet. Institutionen för Tema
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Food security
ISBN : 9173934402
Author : Jim Elser,Phil Haygarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780197545317
Phosphorus is essential to the production of our food, and it also triggers algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and oceans when it slips through our hands. An understanding of this essential resource and how we have used and misused it over the years is crucial to the sustainability of our well-being on our planet. In this book, world authorities on phosphorus sustainability Jim Elser and Phil Haygarth explain this element's involvement in biology, human health and nutrition, food production, ecosystem function, and environmental sustainability. Phosphorus chronicles the sustainability challenges phosphorus both poses and solves in various contexts. The book begins with its discovery over 350 years ago, moving to its basic chemistry and the essential role it plays in all living things on Earth. Chapters go on to explain the rise in the usage of phosphorus in agriculture and how the increase in the mining of rock phosphate in the mid-20th century was essential for the Green Revolution. However, phosphorus emissions from human wastes and detergents triggered widespread algal blooms in the 1960s and 1970s. While such emissions have been brought under better control with wastewater treatment, diffuse emissions from farming continue to cause water quality degradation. The authors explain how these diffuse phosphorus emissions may worsen with climate change. In ten concise chapters, Elser and Haygarth offer engaging explanations of our historical use and abuse of phosphorus, including the phosphorus sustainability movement and new efforts to sustain food benefits of limited rock reserves following the phosphate rock price shock in 2007-2008. Highlighting new approaches for phosphorus, the two "Systems Innovators" turn toward the emerging set of sustainable phosphorus solutions necessary to achieve a sustainable "phosphoheaven" and avoid "phosphogeddon." The book provides an insider's take on this essential resource and why all of us need to wrestle with the wicked problems this element will cause, illuminate, or eliminate in years to come.
Author : Jim Elser,Phil Haygarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Phosphorus
ISBN : 9780199916917
Phosphorus knowing -- Phosphorus becoming -- Phosphorus living -- Phosphorus feeding -- Phosphorus growing -- Phosphorus polluting -- Phosphorus awakening -- Phosphorus reducing -- Phosphorus recycling -- Phosphorus sustaining -- Epilogue: Driving to San Diego.
Author : N. C. Datta
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 8173715300
Chemistry touches every aspects of our life, but we are largely ignorant of it. A general reader has access to many popular books in the various areas of physics and astornomy, but in the area of chemistry there is virtually no accessible material. One common perception is that chemistry is a difficult subject, which is partially true.
Author : Christian Schaum
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780408354
This comprehensive book provides an up-to-date and international approach that addresses the Motivations, Technologies and Assessment of the Elimination and Recovery of Phosphorus from Wastewater. This book is part of the Integrated Environmental Technology Series.
Author : Eduard Farber
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547133742
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "History of Phosphorus" by Eduard Farber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Fiona Erskine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1738512029
A fascinating mixture of detection, science and memoir beautifully written by a professional chemical engineer. A Literary Review crime book of the year.
Author : Roland W. Scholz,Amit H. Roy,Fridolin S. Brand,Deborah T. Hellums,Andrea E. Ulrich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400772502
This book describes a pathway for sustainable phosphorus management via the Global Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management project (Global TraPs). Global TraPs is a multi-stakeholder forum in which scientists from a variety of disciplines join with key actors in practice to jointly identify critical questions and to articulate what new knowledge, technologies and policy processes are needed to ensure that future phosphorus use is sustainable, improves food security and environmental quality and provides benefits for the poor. The book offers insight into economic scarcity and identifies options to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impacts of anthropogenic phosphorus flows at all stages of the supply and use chain.
Author : Arthur Dock Fon Toy,Edward N. Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016092200
Author : Katerina Martina Teaiwa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253014603
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this human and ecological calamity by weaving together memories, records, and images from displaced islanders, colonial administrators, and employees of the mining company. Her compelling narrative reminds us of what is at stake whenever the interests of industrial agriculture and indigenous minorities come into conflict. The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.
Author : Mikhail Butusov,Arne Jernelöv
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461468035
This book starts with depiction of the phosphorus role in life creation and evolution. Then it outlines in which vital processes different phosphates participate in life of all flora and fauna, from DNA molecules till body tissues. Crucial function of phosphates was noticed long ago, but only in XIX century discovery of mineral fertilizers made it possible to sustain the needs of growing global population, thus initiating a “green revolution”. Though, for many decades after it, the complexity of interactions “fertilizer-soil-plant roots” was underrated, causing massive damages, such as soil destruction and eutrophication of waters. Still, mining of exhausting natural phosphate reserves continued worldwide. Lessons of what happened in XIX century due to scarcity of phosphates were ignored. In the meantime, production of phosphates reached its peak few years ago. Immediate implementation of phosphate recycling technologies from municipal wastes can help avoid imminent global disaster.
Author : Orlando M. Gutiérrez,Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh,Rajnish Mehrotra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781493965663
This comprehensive reference covers the impact of dietary phosphorus in phosphorus physiology, public health and the pathogenesis of disease. Divided into three parts, the first section is an overview of the history of phosphorus and the regulation of phosphorus homeostasis. The second section focuses on specific matters related to phosphorus in the food supply. Clinical applications of the material presented in the preceding sections are pulled together in the third section - including the importance of both phosphorus excess and phosphorus deficiency for the pathogenesis of a wide variety of disease including kidney, cardiovascular, bone and oncologic diseases. Clinical Aspects of Natural and Added Phosphorus in Foods is an indispensable resource for understanding the growing importance of dietary phosphorus content in health and disease, enhancing patient care and moving forward the field of phosphorus science.
Author : Zed Rengel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813819891
Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems provides professionals, students, and policy makers with an in-depth view of various aspects of water and nutrient us in crop production. The book covers topics related to global economic, political, and social issues related to food production and distribution, describes various strategies and mechanisms that increase water and nutrient use efficiency, and review te curren situation and potential improvements in major food-producing systems on each continent. The book also deals with problems experienced by developed countries separtaely from problems facing developing countries. Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency emphasizes judicious water and nutrient management which is aimed at maximising water and nutrient utilisation in the agricultural landscape, and minimising undesirable nutrient losses to the environment.
Author : Philipp H. Pattberg,Fariborz Zelli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781782545798
The Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics surveys the broad range of environmental and sustainability challenges in the emerging Anthropocene and scrutinizes available concepts, methodological tools, theories and approaches, as well as overlaps with adjunct fields of study. This comprehensive reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains 68 entries on numerous aspects across 7 thematic areas, including concepts and definitions; theories and methods; actors; institutions; issue-areas; cross-cutting questions; and overlaps with non-environmental fields. With this broad approach, the volume seeks to provide a pluralistic knowledge base of the research and practice of global environmental governance and politics in times of increased complexity and contestation. Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, this Encyclopedia is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the politics of the environment, particularly students, teachers and researchers.
Author : Cyril G. Hopkins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312932920