Agriculture and the environment

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Agriculture and the environment

editor, John Gareth Jones

(Ellis Horwood series in environmental management, science, and technology)

E. Horwood, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Providing a comprehensive spread of views from farmers, regulators and environmental managers, this book is pertinent to the increasing concern over diffuse pollutant sources (mainly from farming) to water bodies and the environment.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1: the farmer's need for agricultural chemicals
  • prevention of water pollution in manufacture and use of agrochemicals
  • agricultural utilization of sewage sludge. Part 2: contamination of groundwaters from farming activities
  • farm waste pollution
  • farm waste and nitrate pollution
  • the impact of intensive dairy farming on river quality - the Eastern Cleddau catchment study. Part 3: the agricultural requirement for water, with particular reference to irrigation
  • water requirements for fish farming
  • pollution from fish farms
  • water protection and protection zones. Part 4: land drainage - agricultural benefits and environmental impacts
  • sympathetic approaches to river engineering
  • set aside and extensification of agricultural production implications and opportunities for nature conservation and the river engineer.

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