| Modern Agriculture and the Environment: Proceedings of an International Conference, Held in Rehovot, Israel, 2-6 October 1994, Under the Auspices of t Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Rosen, David (Editor), Tel-Or, E. (Editor), Hadar, Y. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 940106279X ISBN-13: 9789401062794 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Chemistry - Industrial & Technical - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General |
| Dewey: 363.73 |
| Series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.04 lbs) 646 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume comprises the proceedings of the First International Rehovot Conference on Modem Agriculture and the Environment, held at the Rehovot Campus of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2-6 October 1994. The conference, first in a series intended to be convened in Rehovot at 4-5 year intervals to address various aspects of the interaction of agriculture and the environment, was initiated, organised and carried out under the auspices of the Faculty of Agriculture, the leading academic institution in agricultural and environmental studies in Israel. It featured four keynote addresses, 39 invited lectures, 40 submitted papers, and 62 posters. Of these, 51 articles, written by 122 contributing authors from 14 countries, were selected by the editors to be presented in this book. All through the twentieth century, and especially ever since the advent of the Green Revolution, modem agriCUlture has been striving to feed and clothe the ever- increasing multitudes of the human species through improved technology, relying heavily on tremendous inputs of fertilisers, pesticides, and various other agrochemicals. Undoubtedly, this has been a great blessing to mankind, and enormous strides have indeed been made in the never-ending struggle against starvation, but these have been achieved at a very steep price of increased environmental deterioration. In fact, modem agriculture has become one of the major factors contributing to the degradation of the world's fragile biosphere. |