Abstract
The impacts of air pollution have long been recognised as an issue of concern both in North America and western Europe, where research has provided extensive information on the responses of a number of crop species and air pollutants. National crop loss assessments clearly show that, although pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and fluorides may have significant local impacts on crop production, the air pollutant which is most important in terms of regional or national economic impacts on agriculture is ozone. This is because ozone may be found in high concentrations over large agricultural regions and even in remote rural areas (UK PORG, 1993).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ashmore, M.R. 1991. Air pollution and agriculture. Outlook on Agriculture 20:139–144.
Ashmore, M.R. & Wilson, R.B. 1993. Critical Levels of Air Pollutants for Europe. Department of the Environment, London.
Bell, J.N.B. 2000. Effects of Air Pollution on Herbivorous Insects. In Yunus, M., Singh, N. & De Kok, L.J. (eds) Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation & Eco- conservation: 41–52. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordecht.
Bell, J.N.B., McNeill, S., Houlden, G., Brown, V.C. & Mansfield, P.J. 1993. Atmospheric change: effects on pests and diseases. Parasitology 106: S11–S24.
Benkovitz, C.M., Dignon, J., Pacyna, J., Scholtz, T., Tarrason, L., Voldner, E. & Graedel, T.E. 1999. Global gridded inventories of anthropogenic emissions of sulfur and nitrogen. Journal of Geophysics Research 105:204–215.
Chameides, W.L., Kasibhatia, P.S., Yienger, J. & Levy, H. II. 1994. Growth of continental-scale metro-agro-plexes, regional ozone pollution, and world food production. Science 264:74–77.
Farag, S.A., Rizk, H.F.S., El-Bahnasaway, R.M. & Meleigy, M.I. 1993. The effect of pesticides on surface ozone concentrations. International Journal of Environmental Education & Information 12:217–224.
Foell, W., Green, C., Amman, M., Bhattacharya, S., Carmichael, G., Chadwick, M., Cinderby, S., Haugland, T., Hettelingh, J.-P., Hordijk, L., Shah, J., Shrestha, R., Streets, D. & Zhao, D. 1995. Energy use, emissions, and air pollution reduction strategies in Asia. Water Air & Soil Pollution 85:2277–2282.
Galloway, J.N., Schlesinger, W.H., Levy, H. II, Michaels, A. & Schnoor, J.L. 1995. Nitrogen fixation: anthropogenic enhancement-environmental response. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 9:235–252.
Hassan, I.A., Ashmore, M.R. & Bell, J.N.B. 1995. Effect of ozone on radish and turnip under Egyptian field conditions. Environmental Pollution 89: 107–114.
Kirchoff, V.W.J.H., Marinho, E.V.A., Dias, P.L.S., Pereira, E.B., Calheiros, R., Andre, R. & Volpe, C. 1991. Enhancements of CO and ozone from burning in sugar cane fields. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 12: 87–102.
Kirchoff, V.W.J.H., Nakamura, Y., Marinho, E.V.A. & Mariano, M.M. 1992. Excess ozone production in Amazonia from large-scale burnings. Journal of Atmospheric & Terrestrial Physics 54:583–588.
Laguette Rey, H.D., de Bauer, L.I., Shibata, J.K. & Mendoza, N.M. 1986. Impacto de los oxidante ambtales en el cultivito de frijol, en Montecillos, estado de Mexico. Centro de Fitopathologia 66:83–95.
Lee, D.S., Kohler, I., Grobler, E., Rohrer, F., Sausen, R., Gallardo-Klenner, L., Olivier, G.J., Dentener, E.J. & Bouwan, A.F. 1997. Estimations of global NOx emissions and their uncertainties. Atmospheric Environment 31:1735–1749.
Mage, D., Ozolins, G., Peterson, P., Webster, A., Orthofer, R., Vandeweerd, V. & Gwynne, M. 1996. Urban air pollution in megacities of the world. Atmospheric Environment 30:681–686.
Miller, P., de Bauer, L.I., Nolasco, A.Q. & Tejeda, T.H. 1994. Comparisons of ozone exposure characteristics in forested areas near Mexico City and Los Angeles. Atmospheric Environment 28:141–148.
UK PORG 1993. Ozone in the United Kingdom. Department of the Environment, London.
WHO/UNEP 1992. Urban Air Pollution in the Megacities of the World. World Health Organisation and United Nations Environment Programme. Blackwell, Oxford.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2000 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ashmore, M.R., Bell, J.N.B., Marshall, F.M., Milne, E. (2000). Air Pollution Impacts on Agriculture — A Global Issue?. In: Yunus, M., Singh, N., de Kok, L.J. (eds) Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9532-2_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9532-2_3
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-90-481-5503-3
Online ISBN: 978-94-015-9532-2
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive