› › Contaminants In Agriculture

Contaminants in Agriculture

Author : M. Naeem

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 443 pages

File Size : 49,90 MB

Release : 2020-04-25

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 303041552X

Get eBook

Book Description

This comprehensive volume covers recent studies into agricultural problems caused by soil and water contamination. Considering the importance of agricultural crops to human health, the editors have focused on chapters detailing the negative impact of heavy metals, excessive chemical fertilizer use, nutrients, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, agricultural wastes and toxic pollutants, among others, on agricultural soil and crops. In addition, the chapters offer solutions to these negative impacts through various scientific approaches, including using biotechnology, nanotechnology, nutrient management strategies, biofertilizers, as well as potent PGRs and elicitors. This book serves as a key source of information on scientific and engineered approaches and challenges for the bioremediation of agricultural contamination worldwide. This book should be helpful for research students, teachers, agriculturalists, agronomists, botanists, and plant growers, as well as in the fields of agriculture, agronomy, plant science, plant biology, and biotechnology, among others. It serves as an excellent reference on the current research and future directions of contaminants in agriculture from laboratory research to field application.



Analytical Methods for Agricultural Contaminants

Author : Britt Maestroni

Publisher : Academic Press

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 49,11 MB

Release : 2018-09-18

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0128159413

Get eBook

Book Description

Analytical Methods for Agricultural Contaminants provides proven laboratory practices and methods necessary to control contaminants and residues in food and water. This reference provides insight into good laboratory practices and examples of methods used in individual specialist laboratories, thus enabling stakeholders in the agri-food industry to appreciate the importance of proven, reliable data and the associated quality assurance approaches for end product testing for toxic levels of contaminants and contaminant residues in food. The book offers standard operating procedures and tools for researchers, practitioners and students to confidently engage in using research methods with the aim to control contaminants. Users in a laboratory setting will find this to be a practical and useful reference on how to detect and control agricultural contaminants for a safe food supply. - Provides coverage of risk assessment and effective testing technologies - Presents the most up-to-date information in research sample preparation and method validation to detect chemical residues - Includes examples of each method for practical application - Demonstrates proven, reliable research data and the associated quality assurance approaches for end product testing



Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 50

Author : Vipin Kumar Singh

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 413 pages

File Size : 21,33 MB

Release : 2021-03-12

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3030632490

Get eBook

Book Description

This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems. The contents of this volume will help the policy makers and environmental engineers in combating the continuously rising threats to cultivated ecosystems.



International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.

Page : 37 pages

File Size : 50,62 MB

Release : 2018-09-03

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9251091870

Get eBook

Book Description

The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.



Soil pollution: a hidden reality

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 23,51 MB

Release : 2018-04-30

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9251305056

Get eBook

Book Description

This document presents key messages and the state-of-the-art of soil pollution, its implications on food safety and human health. It aims to set the basis for further discussion during the forthcoming Global Symposium on Soil Pollution (GSOP18), to be held at FAO HQ from May 2nd to 4th 2018. The publication has been reviewed by the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil (ITPS) and contributing authors. It addresses scientific evidences on soil pollution and highlights the need to assess the extent of soil pollution globally in order to achieve food safety and sustainable development. This is linked to FAO’s strategic objectives, especially SO1, SO2, SO4 and SO5 because of the crucial role of soils to ensure effective nutrient cycling to produce nutritious and safe food, reduce atmospheric CO2 and N2O concentrations and thus mitigate climate change, develop sustainable soil management practices that enhance agricultural resilience to extreme climate events by reducing soil degradation processes. This document will be a reference material for those interested in learning more about sources and effects of soil pollution.



Agriculture--a River Runs Through it

Author : Paul D. Capel

Publisher : Geological Survey

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 39,18 MB

Release : 2017-12-22

Category : Science

ISBN : 9781411341821

Get eBook

Book Description

Format not distributed to depository libraries.



Pollution

Author : R M Harrison

Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry

Page : 617 pages

File Size : 16,75 MB

Release : 2007-10-31

Category : Science

ISBN : 1847551718

Get eBook

Book Description

Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control is the fourth edition of a best-selling introductory level book dealing with chemical and radioactive pollution in its broadest sense. The scope of the book ranges from the sources of pollutants and their environmental behaviour, to their effects on human and non-human receptors, to the technologies and strategies available for control. The fourth edition has been wholly revised and updated from the previous edition due to the rapid pace of developments in this field. Topics covered include chemical pollution of freshwater and marine environments, drinking water quality, water pollution biology, sewage and its treatment, toxic wastes, air pollution and atmospheric chemistry, control of pollutant emissions, land contamination, solid waste management, clean technologies, persistent organic pollutants in the environment, environmental radioactivity, health effects of environmental chemicals, legal control of pollution and integrated pollution control. There is a completely new chapter on Clean Technologies and Industrial Ecology, reflecting the growing importance of pollution prevention as opposed to end-of-pipe solutions. Whilst originally intended as an introductory reference work for professionals within the field, the book has been widely adopted for teaching purposes at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.



Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture

Author : Hiroshan Hettiarachchi

Publisher : Springer

Page : 182 pages

File Size : 38,19 MB

Release : 2018-03-09

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 331974268X

Get eBook

Book Description

This book offers a broad and global level description of the current status of wastewater use in agriculture and then brings the readers to various places in the MENA Region and Europe to explain how some countries and regions have addressed the challenges during implementation. On a global scale, over 20 million hectares of agricultural land are irrigated using wastewater. This is one good, and perhaps the most prominent, example of the safe use potential of wastewater. Water scarcity and the cost of energy and fertilisers are among the main factors driving millions of farmers and other entrepreneurs to make use of wastewater. In order to address the technical, institutional, and policy challenges of safe water reuse, developing countries and countries in transition need clear institutional arrangements and more skilled human resources, with a sound understanding of the opportunities and potential risks of wastewater use. Stakeholders in wastewater irrigation who need to implement from scratch or improve current conditions, find it difficult to gather the necessary information on practical implementation aspects. The main objective of this book is to bridge that gap.



Bioremediation of Agricultural Soils

Author : Juan C. Sanchez-Hernandez

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 227 pages

File Size : 42,47 MB

Release : 2019-03-14

Category : Science

ISBN : 1351793101

Get eBook

Book Description

The quality of agricultural soils are always under threat from chemical contaminants, which ultimately affect the productivity and safety of crops. Besides agrochemicals, a new generation of substances invades the soil through irrigation with reclaimed wastewater and pollutants of organic origin such as sewage sludge or cattle manure. Emerging pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and microplastics are now present in agricultural soils, but the understanding of their impact on soil quality is still limited. With focus on in situ bioremediation, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of the current biological methodologies for recovering polluted agricultural soils as well as monitoring the effectiveness of bioremediation.



Soil Pollution - An Emerging Threat to Agriculture

Author : Jayanta K. Saha

Publisher : Springer

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 31,94 MB

Release : 2017-04-05

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9811042748

Get eBook

Book Description

The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity. The book highlights their interactions with soil constituents, their toxicity to agro-ecosystem & human health, methodologies of toxicity assessment along with remediation technologies for the polluted land by citing case studies. It gives special emphasis on scenario of soil pollution threats in developing countries and ways to counteract these in low cost ways which have so far been ignored. It also explicitly highlights the need for soil protection policy and identifies its key considerations after analyzing basic functions of soil and the types of threats perceived. This book will be a useful resource for graduate students and researchers in the field of environmental and agricultural sciences, as well as for personnel involved in environmental impact assessment and policy making.