Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and Pollution - Softcover
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 buring off, all of which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global warming. This book, which focusses on the UK, the USA and Third World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture and pollution, it examines the facts and assesses the relative dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the effects of pollution on agriculture itself, crop yields are depressed and livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from all sources. The authors also offer solutions to these apparently overwhelming problems and describe existing technology which would allow us to deal with them.
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About the Author:
Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex, UK, and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. His works include The Earth Only Endures (2007), The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture (2005), The Pesticide Detox (2005), Agri-Culture (2002), The Living Land (1998), Regenerating Agriculture (1995), The Hidden Harvest (1992) and Unwelcome Harvest (1991).
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- PublisherEarthscan / James & James
- ISBN 10 1853830364
- ISBN 13 9781853830365
- BindingPaperback
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