Agriculture, hydrology, and water quality / edited by P.M. Haygarth and S.C. Jarvis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haygarth, P. M.

Jarvis, S. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural pollution--Environmental aspects.

Agricultural pollution.

Hydrology.

Water quality.

Water--Pollution.

Water.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, ; New York : CABI, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text is a collection of reviews of global problems of diffuse water pollution from agriculture, which affects the water quality of rivers, lakes, resevoirs and the oceans. It is aimed at researchers and advanced level students as a reference book.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on Terminology and Abbreviations; Introduction: an Interdisciplinary Approach for Agriculture, Hydrology and Water Quality; Section 1 Agriculture: Potential Sources of Water Pollution; Introduction: Agriculture as a Potential Source of Water Pollution; 1 Nitrogen; 2 Phosphorus; 3 Manures; 4 Pesticides and Persistent Organic Pollutants; 5 Heavy Metals; 6 Human Enteric Pathogens; 7 Sediment; 8 Nutrient Balances; Section 2 Hydrology: the Carrier and Transport of Water Pollution; Introduction: Modelling Hydrological and Nutrient Transport Processes

9 Hydrological Source Management of Pollutants at the Soil Profile Scale10 Hydrological Mobilization of Pollutants at the Field/Slope Scale; 11 Modelling Hydrological Mobilization of Nutrient Pollutants at the Catchment Scale; 12 Pollutant-Sediment Interactions: Sorption, Reactivity and Transport of Phosphorus; 13 Quantifying Sediment and Nutrient Pathways within Danish Agricultural Catchments; 14 Development of Geographical Information Systems for Assessing Hydrological Aspects of Diffuse Nutrient and Sediment Transfer from Agriculture; 15 Wetlands as Regulators of Pollutant Transport

Section 3 Water Quality: Impacts and Case Studies from Around the WorldIntroduction: Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quality Around the World; 16 Solutions to Nutrient Management Problems in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, USA; 17 Nutrient and Pesticide Transfer from Agricultural Soils to Water in New Zealand; 18 Land, Water and People: Complex Interactions in the Murrumbidgee River Catchment, New South Wales, Australia; 19 Managing the Effects of Agriculture on Water Quality in Northern Ireland; 20 Conflicts and Problems with Water Quality in the Upper Catchment of the Manyame River, Zimbabwe

21 Dryland Salinization: a Challenge for Land and Water Management in the Australian Landscape22 Quantifying Nutrient Limiting Conditions in Temperate River Systems; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-82960-5

9786610829606

0-85199-771-6

OCLC:

476061187