Nitrate, agriculture and the environment /

• Main Author: Addiscott, T. M. (Author)
• Other Authors: Gold, Arthur J., (Contributor), Oviatt, Candace A., (Contributor), Benjamin, Nigel, (Contributor), Giller, K. E. (Contributor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Nitrogen fertilizers.; Nitrogen fertilizers > Environmental aspects.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Input Utilization (Microeconomics); Marketing and Distribution.; Plant Production.; Soil Biology.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Soil Physics.; Fertilizers and other Amendments.; Water Resources.; Land Resources.; Grasslands and Rangelands.; Meteorology and Climate.; Pollution and Degradation.; Communication and Mass Media.; Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Human Health and the Environment.; Non-communicable Human Diseases and Injuries.; Human Toxicology and Poisoning, (New March 2000); Agriculture.; Air pollutants.; Air pollution.; Arable land.; Atmosphere.; Coastal water.; Communication.; Economics.; Environment.; Eutrophication.; Fresh water.; Grasslands.; Land use.; Leaching.; Methaemoglobinaemia.; Neoplasms.; Nitrate.; Nitrogen.; Nitrous oxide.; Political systems.; Politics.; Pollutants.; Public health.; Public opinion.; Risk.; Risk assessment.; Social participation.; Water pollution.; Water quality.; Electronic books.
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This book builds on Farming, Fertilizers and the Nitrate Problem (CABI, 1991) by Addiscott, Whitmore and Powlson, but has been restructured to take account of new developments and to bring out more clearly the role of politicians and economists in the nitrate problem. The book contains 14 chapters....

Table of Contents:

• Dependence on Nitrogen
• The Chemistry and Physics of Nitrate
• The Biology of Nitrate
• Nitrogen Fertilizer
• Losses of Nitrogen from Arable Land
• Losses of Nitrogen from Grassland
• Nitrate in Fresh Water and Nitrous Oxide in the Atmosphere / With a contribution from Arthur J. Gold and Candace A. Oviatt
• Nitrate in Coastal Waters / Contributed by Candace A. Oviatt and Arthur J. Gold
• Nitrate and Health / Based on material contributed by Nigel Benjamin
• The Politics and Economics of Nitrate
• Nitrate in Africa : The 'Western Hegemony' / With a contribution from Ken Giller
• Risk
• Coming to Terms with Nitrate : Public Attitudes to Science
• Coming to Terms with Nitrate: Land Use.