Full title: Environmental impacts of modern agriculture / editors, R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison.

Author/creator: Hester, R. E. (Ronald E.), Harrison, Roy M., 1948-.

Call Numbers: G 2014/4142

Record Identifier: 74Vvj0ekRMLy

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xvii, 174 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm., 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 agriculture with the need for food security -- Positive and negative impacts of agricultural production of liquid biofuels.

Publishers: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2012.

Notes: Issues in environmental science and technology ; 34. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 630.286

MMS ID: 991015289279702626