Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning, Adam M. Romero upends this narrative and provides a fascinating new history of pesticides in American industrial agriculture prior to World War II. Through impeccable archival research, Romero reveals the ways in which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American agriculture, especially in California, functioned less as a market for novel pest-killing chemical products and more as a sink for the accumulating toxic wastes of mining, oil production, and chemical manufacturing. Connecting farming ecosystems to technology and the economy, Romero provides an intriguing reconceptualization of pesticides that forces readers to rethink assumptions about food, industry, and the relationship between human and nonhuman environments.

Agricultural chemicals industry --- Pesticides --- Factory and trade waste --- Environmental aspects

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book reviews the occurrence and fate of pesticides in soils, their impact on soil quality and soil ecosystems, and it also provides a comprehensive overview of the latest prevention and remediation strategies of soil contamination. Chapters from expert contributors cover topics such as soil pollution monitoring, the role of dissolved organic matter on the environmental fate of pesticides in soils, the effects of pesticides on soil microbial communities, plant uptake of pesticides from soils, and nano-based pesticides. Particular attention is given to the latest physicochemical and biological technologies developed to immobilize or degrade pesticides, preventing soil and water pollution. Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, professionals, including environmental chemists, engineers, ecologists, and policy-makers responsible for soil management.

Pesticides. --- Economic poisons --- Agricultural chemicals --- Pests --- Poisons --- Control --- Equipment and supplies

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Agricultural chemicals. --- Agrichemicals --- Agrochemicals --- Farm chemicals --- Chemicals --- Farm supplies --- Bioremediació --- Química agrícola

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power. Hawaiʻi is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. While documentaries and popular news stories have profiled the biotech seed industry in Hawaiʻi, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility is the first book to detail the social and historical conditions by which the chemical-seed oligopoly came to occupy the most geographically isolated islands in the world and made the soils of Hawaiʻi the epicenter of agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology testing. Andrea Brower, an activist-scholar from Hawaiʻi, examines the consequences related to genetically engineered seed development for Hawaiʻi's people and the social movement that has risen in response. With insights beyond the islands, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility illuminates why visions for a radically better world must be expanded by intersectional and systemically oriented movements. "-- ""Details the social and historical conditions by which Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power"--Provided by the publisher"--

E-books --- Plantes transgeniques --- Semences --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Transgenic plants --- Seed industry and trade --- Industrie --- Hawaii.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Poisons. --- Agricultural chemicals --- Agrochemicals --- Food additives --- Food Additives --- Toilet preparations --- Cosmetics --- Toxiques. --- Produits chimiques agricoles --- Additifs alimentaires --- Produits de maquillage --- Toxicology. --- toxicity --- Toxicology --- Toxicologie. --- toxicity.