Containing over 7,000 entries, this fully revised edition provides clear, up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of agricultural terms. Subjects covered include cultivation, machinery, livestock, crops, pesticides and herbicides, fertilizers, organic farming and veterinary science, as well as sales and commodities markets. Jargon-free definitions make this dictionary particularly suitable for students, new industry recruits and non-native English speakers.
Pesticides play an important role in controlling pests that carry diseases and threaten crop production. In recent years, however, there has been increased concern about the adverse impacts of pestici
Levine (retired professor of industrial relations, U. of Maryland) reviews the scope and nature of the pesticide dangers. Individual chapters explore pesticides in agriculture; pesticides in food; pes
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total
Despite a history of several decades of pesticide regulation, continuous innovation, and considerable practical experience with using pesticides in agriculture, the environmental impact of pesticide u
"Current Controversies: Pesticides ... explores a variety of issues related to pesticides, including whether they are negatively affecting human health, how they are interacting with the environment,
Chirality as an environmental phenomenon was dealt with in a thorough and interesting manner in a series of three symposia entitled "Modern Chiral Pesticides: Enantioselectivity and Its Consequences",
The impetus for this book came from numerous requests by public and private agencies and citizens for information regarding the human health effects of pes- ticide exposures. We have tried to compile
Explores the rapid exploitation of the catalytic action of light on certain chemicals in biological systems. Focuses on insecticides, followed by herbicides and fungicides. Useful for specialists in p
In this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds, and vectors of disease.Prior to 1900 only a few chem
Pesticides are used everywhere: in schools, homes, parks, and playgrounds, and especially in agriculturethe fruits and vegetables we eat carry the residue of one or more pesticides. In this riveting n
Since the publication of the original edition in 1982, pesticide-related poisonings, both single cases and epidemic-scale situations, have continued to occur unabated. This new edition of Pesticides a
