Pesticides

Contemporary Roles in Agriculture, Health, and Environment

T. J. Sheets, David Pimentel (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2011 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
Humana Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-4612-6244-2 (ISBN)

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Chemical pesticides continue as a point of major controversy in our society. Increasingly stringent regulatory actions on the part of state and federal agencies, exemplified by the RPAR (Rebuttable Presump tion Against Registration) program of the Environmental Protection Agency, are supported by environmental groups and are generally op posed or viewed with skepticism by agriculturalists. The energy crisis invokes other questions on benefits of pesticides versus nonchemical controls and effects on labor utilization. As DDT and other persistent pesticides have been phased out, the more labile, short-lived chemicals have filled the voids in pest management systems; and effects on nontarget species appear to have declined in recent years as the shift occurred. However, nagging ques tions of the hazard to man and other nontarget species from long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides are frequently raised; and recent suggestions that certain well-known and long-used chemicals cause cancer, increase sterility, and initiate or augment other deleterious effects in test animals have instilled a sense of caution and raised con cern about the continued availability of some pesticides previously considered safe. So the facade of concern and confusion continues. This book is an outgrowth of a symposium at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February, 1978. An introduction has been added, and some of the papers have been modified since presentation.

1. The Role of Pesticides in Increasing Agricultural Production.- 2. The Role of Pesticides in Stabilizing Agricultural Production.- 3. Socioeconomic Impacts of Changes in Pesticide Usage.- 4. Pesticides and Energy Utilization.- 5. Nontarget Effects of Pesticides in the Environment.- 6. Pesticides and Human Health.- 7. A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Pesticide Use in U.S. Food Production.- 8. Role of Pesticides in Pest Management.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.10.2011
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Issues in Science and Society
Zusatzinfo	XII, 186 p.
Verlagsort	Totowa, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-4612-6244-5 / 1461262445
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-6244-2 / 9781461262442
Zustand	Neuware