Description
Book SynopsisThere is widespread public concern about the effects of nitrate derived from 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 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 account of new developments and to bring out more clearly the role of politicians and economists in the 'nitrate problem'.
Table of Contents1: Dependance on Nitrogen 2: The Chemistry and Physics of Nitrate 3: The Biology of Nitrate 4: Nitrogen Fertilizer 5: Losses of Nitrogen from Arable Land 6: Losses of Nitrogen from Grassland 7: 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 8: Nitrate in Coastal Waters, A J Gold and C A Oviatt 9: Nitrate and Health, N Benjamin, Peninsular Medical School, Plymouth, UK 10: The Politics and Economics of Nitrate 11: Nitrate in Africa: The 'Western Hegemony', K Giller, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands 12: Risk 13: Coming to Terms with Nitrate: Public Attitudes to Science 14: Coming to Terms with Nitrate: Land Use"
