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Pesticide risk assessment in rice paddies theory and practice /

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Rice is cultivated throughout the world under submerged conditions. The high water requirements and the heavy pesticide load used in rice paddies worldwide have resulted in contamination of associated surface water, such as streams, ditches, rivers and lakes. The uniform risk assessment approach whi...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Capri, Ettore, Karpouzas, Dimitrios
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2007.
Subjects:
Pesticides > Risk assessment.
Rice > Irrigation.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects.
Pesticides > Évaluation du risque.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects
Pesticides > Risk assessment
Rice > Irrigation
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Proposed Contents
  • Chapter 1: Agronomic, pesticide and water management in rice paddies (A. Ferrero).
  • Chapter 2: Regulatory Aspects of pesticide risk assessment (A. Craven).
  • Chapter 3: Water resource contamination in paddy areas (E. Capri).
  • Chapter 4: Ecotoxicological aspects of pesticide risk assessment in rice (J.V. Tarazona).
  • Chapter 5: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddies: the lower-tier analysis (R. Jackson, S. Cervelli).
  • Chapter 6: Higher tier exposure assessment in rice paddy areas a European perspective (D.G. Karpouzas, Z. Miao).
  • Chapter 7: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddy areas an Asian perspective (H. Watanabe, J. Tournebitze).
  • Chapter 8: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddy areas an American perspective (A. Ritter).
  • Chapter 9. Socio-economic assessment of the risk-benefit relationship in rice-cultivating countries(G. Canali).