Environmental impacts of modern agriculture / editors, R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
Environmental impacts of modern agriculture / editors, R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
Environmental impacts of modern agriculture / editors, R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2012.
Call Numbers
G 2014/4142
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xvii, 174 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Modern agriculture and implications for land use and management -- Impacts of agriculture upon soil quality -- Impacts of agriculture upon greenhouse gas budgets -- Impacts of agriculture on water-borne pathogens -- Pesticides in modern agriculture -- Balancing the environmental consequences of agri...
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2012.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2012.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
This volume of the Issues in Environmental Science and Technology series examines the factors currently affecting agriculture on a global scale. Land use, soil quality and the inherent production of greenhouse gases by agriculture each receive their own chapters. Further chapters present a historical and contemporary perspective to the use of pes...
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Environmental impacts of modern agriculture / editors, R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.
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Issues in environmental science and technology ; 34.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2012.
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G 2014/4142
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74Vvj0ekRMLy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvj0ekRMLy
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ISBN
1849733856 (hbk.)
9781849733854 (hbk.)
DDC
630.286
MMS ID
991015289279702626
