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Author Fedorov, L. A. (Lev Aleksandrovich)

Title Pesticides : the chemical weapon that kills life : the USSR's tragic experience / Lev A. Fedorov, Alexey V. Yablokov ; [translated by Lilia P. Poger]
Published Sofia : Pensoft, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (136 pages)
Series Pensoft environmental series ; no. 4
Pensoft environmental series ; no. 4.
Contents Ch. 1. Pesticides in the USSR -- Ch. 2. Pesticides in the environment -- Ch. 3. Pesticides, the state and humans -- Ch. 4. Pesticides and the natural environment -- Ch. 5. Pesticides and agriculture -- Ch. 6. Pesticides : lessons learned
Summary Experience of all former Soviet republics with the use of pesticides is imminent in order to properly understand the causes and effects of pesticide dissemination all over the globe. Never in any country has so much medical and biological research on the consequences of pesticide use been seen as in the USSR in the 1970's through 1980's. These data mostly remained secret until the 1990's. Part of this material is being presented here to the Western reader for the first time. Among the problems discussed, there are: regulation, control, and economic use of pesticides in USSR agriculture; air, water and soil contamination; transformation of pesticides in the environment and in food products; human and animal poisoning by different types of pesticide; morbidity and mortality associated with pesticides, genetic effects, and effects on reproduction, endocrine and other systems; bioaccumulation; pesticides as poisons for cultivated plants; pesticide resistance in target species; connection of chemical weaponry plants with pesticide production
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-136)
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Subject Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- Former Soviet republics
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Pesticides -- Environmental aspects
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Form Electronic book
Author I︠A︡blokov, A. V. (Alekseĭ Vladimirovich)
ISBN 9781435642751
1435642759
1281431451
9781281431455
6611431454
9786611431457
954642353X
9789546423535