Nitrate, agriculture, and the environment

Nitrate, agriculture, and the environment /

"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 idea that nitrate is a threat to health has been d...

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Main Author: Addiscott, T. M. (Tom M.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : CABI Pub., 2005
Subjects:
Nitrogen fertilizers.
Nitrogen fertilizers > Environmental aspects.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Dependence on nitrogen
  • 2. chemistry and physics of nitrate
  • 3. biology of nitrate
  • 4. Nitrogen fertilizer
  • 5. Losses of nitrogen from arable land
  • 6. Losses of nitrogen from grassland
  • 7. Nitrate in fresh water and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere / T.M. Addiscott, Arthur J. Gold and Candace A. Oviatt
  • 8. Nitrate in coastal waters / Candace A. Oviatt and Arthur J. Gold
  • 9. Nitrate and health / T.M. Addiscott and Nigel Benjamin
  • 10. politics and economics of nitrate
  • 11. Nitrate in Africa : the 'western hegemony' / T.M. Addiscott and Ken Giller
  • 12. Risk
  • 13. Coming to terms with nitrate : public attitudes to science
  • 14. Coming to terms with nitrate : land use.

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