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Nitrate, Agriculture and the Environment
Edited by T Addiscott
CABI
July 2005
Paperback 304 pp ISBN 0851999131
£29.50
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This book addresses the widespread public concern about the effects of nitrate derived from farming,
on water quality and public health. It begins by examining the reasons for nitrogen fertilizer use and how
nitrate escapes from arable and grassland systems. The book then moves on to discuss ecological changes
in coastal and estuarine water caused by nitrate, and the threat to the ozone layer caused by nitrous oxide.
It also reviews the existing research on the effects of nitrate on health. The book builds on Farming, Fertilizers
and the Nitrate Problem (CABI, 1991) by Addiscott, Whitmore and Powlson, and has been revised to take
account of new developments and to bring out more clearly the role of politicians and economists in the 'nitrate
problem'. It concludes that there are wide discrepancies between public perceptions and reality.
Readership: Advanced students in soil, crop, environmental and pollution sciences.
Contents
- Dependance on Nitrogen
- The Chemistry and Physics of Nitrate
- The Biology of Nitrate
- Nitrogen Fertilizer
- Losses of Nitrogen from Arable Land
- Losses of Nitrogen from Grassland
- Nitrate in Freshwater and Nitrous Oxide in the Atmosphere, A J Gold, University Rhode Island, Kingston, USA and C A Oviatt, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, USA
- Nitrate in Coastal Waters, A J Gold and C A Oviatt
- Nitrate and Health, N Benjamin, Peninsular Medical School, Plymouth, UK
- The Politics and Economics of Nitrate
- Nitrate in Africa: The 'Western Hegemony', K Giller, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
- Coming to Terms with Nitrate: Public Attitudes to Science
- Coming to Terms with Nitrate: Land Use
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