Nitrate, Agriculture and the Environment
By addebook • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Astronomy & Geography
Nitrate, Agriculture and the Environment
Nitrate, Agriculture and the Environment
By T. M. Addiscott
Publisher: CABI
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2005-10-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0851999131
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780851999135
Binding: Paperback
There is widespread public concern about the effects of nitrate derived from the use of fertilizers in 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 in fact 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 into account these new developments and to bring out more clearly the role of politics and economics in the “nitrate problem.”
Summary: Comprehensive overview that’s well written
Rating: 5
This book caught my attention because of its title and my interest in nitrogen and the soil environment. It provided a well written overview of environmental aspects of soil nitrogen that revolves around good science.
Must read for anyone involved with basic issues surrounding soil nitrates and water quality or concerns about NOx gas emissions.
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