Soil Pollution - An Emerging Threat to Agriculture

The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity. The book highlights their interactions with soil constituents, their toxicity to agro-ecosystem & human health, methodologies of toxicity assessment along with remed...

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Main Authors: Saha, Jayanta K., Selladurai, Rajendiran (Author), Coumar, M. Vassanda (Author), Dotaniya, M.L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity. The book highlights their interactions with soil constituents, their toxicity to agro-ecosystem & human health, methodologies of toxicity assessment along with remediation technologies for the polluted land by citing case studies. It gives special emphasis on scenario of soil pollution threats in developing countries and ways to counteract these in low cost ways which have so far been ignored. It also explicitly highlights the need for soil protection policy and identifies its key considerations after analyzing basic functions of soil and the types of threats perceived. This book will be a useful resource for graduate students and researchers in the field of environmental and agricultural sciences, as well as for personnel involved in environmental impact assessment and policy making
Physical Description:XXII, 386 p. 36 illus., 29 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9789811042744