
Pesticides
Contemporary Roles in Agriculture, Health, and Environment
Humana Press Inc.
Published on 30. June 1979
Book
Hardback
XII, 186 pages
978-0-89603-005-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1979 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Totowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XII, 186 p.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89603-005-3 (9780896030053)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-6242-8
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Content
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.