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Agriculture and the environment / Noel Uri.

Title
Agriculture and the environment / Noel Uri.
Author
Uri, Noel D.
Publication
New York : Novinka, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Nova Science Publishers
  • Nova Science Publishers.
Description
x, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Agriculture > Environmental aspects > United States
  • Agricultural chemicals > Environmental aspects > United States
  • Agricultural conservation > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction and overview -- Ch. 2. Agricultural chemical use -- Ch. 3. The economic and environmental implications of alternative production practices -- Ch. 4. The influence of government policy on the choice of production practices and chemical use -- Ch. 5. Government policy and the development and use of biopesticides -- Ch. 6. The changing pattern of soil erosion in the United States -- Ch. 7. Perceptions versus reality : the case of no till farming -- Ch. 8. The use of conservation practices in agriculture in the United States -- Ch. 9. The impact of energy on the adoption of conservation tillage in the United States -- Ch. 10. The environmental consequences of the conservation tillage adoption decision in agriculture in the United States.
ISBN
1594547068
LCCN
^^2006299043
OCLC
  • 68904832
  • SCSB-9904402
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library