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Modern Agriculture and the Environment

Proceedings of an International Conference, held in Rehovot, Israel, 2–6 October 1994, under the auspices of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. David Rosen
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  2. Elisha Tel-Or
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  3. Yitzhak Hadar
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  4. Yona Chen

    1. Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences (DPSS, volume 71)

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Table of contents (51 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Towards Environmentally Acceptable Pest Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Safer and more effective insecticides for the future

      • John E. Casida, Gary B. Quistad
      Pages 3-15

    3. From Homo economicus to Homo ecologicus: towards environmentally safe pest control

      • J. C. van Lenteren
      Pages 17-31

    4. Classical biological control: an environmental boon or bane?

      • David Rosen
      Pages 33-39

    5. Soil disinfestation: environmental problems and solutions

      • Jaacov Katan
      Pages 41-45

    6. Minimizing environmental damage originating from pesticide utilization: abiotic photochemical control and remediation

      • Nicola Senesi, Elisabetta Loffredo
      Pages 47-73

    7. Neem, eco-friendly, IPM-compatible plant-derived bioinsecticide: some new findings

      • K. R. S. Ascher
      Pages 75-79

    8. Utilization of scorpion insecticidal neurotoxins and baculoviruses for the design of novel selective biopesticides

      • Michael Gurevitz, Noam Zilberberg, Oren Froy, Daniel Urbach, Eliahu Zlotkin, Bruce D. Hammock et al.
      Pages 81-96

    9. Nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria as BTi toxin genes delivery system — a biotechnological approach to control malaria mosquitoes

      • Sammy Boussiba, Wu Xiaoqiang, Arieh Zaritsky
      Pages 97-109

    10. Structure-function analysis of PBAN/MRCH: a basis for antagonist design

      • Miriam Altstein, Ezra Dunkelblum, Yoav Gazit, Orna Ben Aziz, Tal Gabay, Zvi Vogel et al.
      Pages 111-118

    11. Estimation of metolachlor volatilization from agricultural fields using a micrometeorological approach

      • J. H. Prueger, J. L. Hatfield, T. J. Sauer
      Pages 119-125

    12. Titanium dioxide photocatalysis for the treatment of contaminated waters

      • Lea Muszkat
      Pages 127-132

  4. Environmental Aspects of Aquaculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Aquaculture and the environment: change and challenge

      • James F. Muir
      Pages 183-196
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About this book

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.

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`This wide coverage of different aspects of the environmental problems related to agriculture will be a valuable text for agriculturists, policy makers and environmentalists as well as for students and researchers dealing with soil productivity.'
Agrochimica, XLI:5 (1997)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

    Yona Chen

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