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9780851999135

Nitrate, Agriculture And The Environment

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  • ISBN13:

    9780851999135

  • ISBN10:

    0851999131

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-10-06
  • Publisher: Cab Intl

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Summary

There is widespread public concern about the effects of nitrate derived from farming on water quality and public health. But research on nitrate during the past decade has revealed wide discrepancies between public perceptions and reality. The main problems from nitrate are ecological changes in coastal and estuarine waters and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. This gas, largely derived from nitrate, is a threat to the ozone layer in the stratosphere and is also a greenhouse gas. 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'.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Preface ix
Dependence on Nitrogen
1(13)
The Chemistry and Physics of Nitrate
14(15)
The Biology of Nitrate
29(19)
Nitrogen Fertilizer
48(14)
Losses of Nitrogen from Arable Land
62(31)
Losses of Nitrogen from Grassland
93(17)
Nitrate in Fresh Water and Nitrous Oxide in the Atmosphere
110(17)
Arthur J. Gold
Candace A. Oviatt
Nitrate in Coastal Waters
127(18)
Candace A. Oviatt
Arthur J. Gold
Nitrate and Health
145(8)
Nigel Benjamin
The Politics and Economics of Nitrate
153(19)
Nitrate in Africa: The `Western Hegemony'
172(13)
Ken Giller
Risk
185(19)
Coming to Terms with Nitrate: Public Attitudes to Science
204(21)
Coming to Terms with Nitrate: Land Use
225(27)
References 252(17)
Index 269

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