TY - BOOK ID - 14301536 TI - Organic farming, pest control and remediation of soil pollutants PY - 2009 SN - 1402096534 9786612509209 1282509209 1402096542 PB - Dordrecht ; London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Natural pesticides. KW - Organic farming. KW - Soil remediation. KW - Sustainable agriculture. KW - Agriculture - General KW - Agriculture KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Low-input agriculture KW - Low-input sustainable agriculture KW - Lower input agriculture KW - Resource-efficient agriculture KW - Sustainable farming KW - Cleanup of contaminated soil KW - Remediation of contaminated soil KW - Soil cleanup KW - Soil contamination remediation KW - Ecological agriculture KW - Organic crops KW - Organic cultivation KW - Organic production of crops KW - Organiculture KW - Regenerative agriculture KW - Biological pesticides KW - Biopesticides KW - Natural pest control agents KW - Naturally occurring pesticides KW - Life sciences. KW - Agriculture. KW - Ecosystems. KW - Plant science. KW - Botany. KW - Climate change. KW - Soil science. KW - Soil conservation. KW - Sustainable development. KW - Life Sciences. KW - Sustainable Development. KW - Plant Sciences. KW - Climate Change. KW - Soil Science & Conservation. KW - Alternative agriculture KW - Soil protection KW - Soil pollution KW - Natural products KW - Pesticides KW - Organic agriculture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14301536 AB - Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations. Dr. ERIC LICHTFOUSE, born April 2, 1960, completed his Ph.D. in organic geochemistry in 1989 at Strasbourg University. After post-doctoral fellowships at Indiana University, USA and the KFA research center in Jülich, Germany, he became engaged as a soil scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in 1992. His study on soil organic matter and pollutants led in particular to the first determination of the dynamics of soil organic molecules in long-term maize field experiments using 13C labeling at natural abundance. In 2000 he founded the European Association of Environmental Chemistry (ACE) and in 2003 the Journal Environmental Chemistry Letters. He has co-edited the book Environmental Chemistry (Springer, 2005). He is currently working in Dijon for the INRA Department of Environment and Agronomy as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development. He is growing fruit trees and vegetables in his home backyard and travelling from home to work by bicycle. Eric Lichtfouse is also finisher of 10 ironman competitions, including the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii in 2006. ER -