PESTICIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT Impact, Assessment, and Remediation (Paperback)

Anket Sharma

ISBN 10: 032399427X / ISBN 13: 9780323994279

Edité par Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, Philadelphia, 2023

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Paperback. Pesticides in a Changing Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation covers compounds that repel, kill or to prevent any pest. On the basis of the target killed, pesticides are mainly classified as herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. The increased demand of food on account of population explosion has compelled man to use pesticides for better crop production. However, there are many negative impacts of these chemical agrochemicals like toxicity to non-target organisms and retention in bio-systems in the form of their residues, leading to harmful effects on the food chain and food web.This book will be an important source of information for researchers and academicians working in the field of pesticide pollution, its physiology and biochemistry, and development of pesticide remediation technologies. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titre: PESTICIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT Impact, Assessment, and Remediation (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, Philadelphia
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 032399427X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780323994279
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Pesticides in a Changing Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation covers compounds that repel, kill or to prevent any pest. On the basis of the target killed, pesticides are mainly classified as herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. The increased demand of food on account of population explosion has compelled man to use pesticides for better crop production. However, there are many negative impacts of these chemical agrochemicals like toxicity to non-target organisms and retention in bio-systems in the form of their residues, leading to harmful effects on the food chain and food web.

This book will be an important source of information for researchers and academicians working in the field of pesticide pollution, its physiology and biochemistry, and development of pesticide remediation technologies.

À propos des auteurs

Anket Sharma is currently working as a Visiting Research Scientist at University of Maryland, College Park, USA & as an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, China. Dr. Sharma has more than 100 research articles to his credit. Dr. Sharma Completed his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India.

Vinod Kumar currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Government Degree College, Ramban, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Dr. Kumar has more than 100 research articles and one patent in his credit. Dr. Kumar also edited one book of "Heavy Metals in the Environment: Impact, Assessment and Remediation" in Elsevier. He completed his Ph.D. from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India.