Download or read book OECD Studies on Water Water Quality and Agriculture Meeting the Policy Challenge written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines linking policies and farm management to improve water quality.

Download or read book La gestion durable des ressources en eau en milieu agricole written by Roselyne Allemand and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De nombreuses mesures ont été mises en place en vue de modifier les pratiques agricoles liées à l'utilisation d'intrants. Elles risquent cependant de ne pas être suffisantes pour atteindre l'objectif de bonne qualité des eaux d'ici à 2015. Cette étude souligne que les mesures n'ont pas toujours d'effets significatifs sur la qualité de l'eau, met en relief les contradictions de ces mesures avec d'autres politiques publiques et propose des pistes de réflexion afin d'intégrer les contraintes environnementales dans le secteur agricole.

Download or read book A National Program of Research for Environmental Quality written by Joint Task Force of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Quality and Agriculture written by James Shortle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world’s most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending. Yet, significant water quality problems remain, and trends for some pollutants are in the wrong direction. This book addresses the economics of water pollution control and water pollution control policy in agriculture, with an aim towards providing students, environmental policy analysts, and other environmental professionals with economic concepts and tools essential to understanding the problem and crafting solutions that can be effective and efficient. The book will also examine existing policies and proposed reforms in the developed world. Although this book addresses and has a general applicability to major water pollutants from agriculture (e.g., pesticides, pharmaceuticals, sediments, nutrients), it will focus on the sediment and nutrient pollution problem. The economic and scientific foundations for pollution management are best developed for these pollutants, and they are currently the top priorities of policy makers. Accordingly, the authors provide both highly salient and informative cases for developing concepts and methods of general applicability, with high profile examples such as the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Erie, and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone in the US; the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe; and Lake Taupo in New Zealand.

Download or read book Overcoming Agricultural Pollution of Water written by Susanne M. Scheierling and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 269. Water problems are emerging as the most compelling set of issues facing agricultural production in the 1990s. To address the policy challenges posed by this dilemma, this study focuses on the experience of the Eu

Download or read book Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control written by J. S. Shortle and published by CABI. This book was released on 2001-09-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the environmental problems associated with agriculture, particularly the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and the disposal of animal waste. These have become major policy issues in many countries, with the main polluting effect being on water quality. As with other types of pollution, significant reductions in agriculture's contribution to water pollution requires the application of either enforceable regulatory approaches or changes in the economic environment, so that farmers adopt environmentally-friendly production practices. Providing a review and guide to the policy options and their economic administrative and political merits, the reader can develop an understanding of these options and their merits in the emerging policy context. The principal focus is on the developed world, particularly North America and Europe. The book is aimed at advanced students, researchers and professionals in agricultural economics and policy, and environmental and pollution sciences.

Download or read book OECD Studies on Water Water Quality and Agriculture Meeting the Policy Challenge written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines linking policies and farm management to improve water quality.

Download or read book Qualit de l eau en milieu rural written by Philippe Merot and published by Editions Quae. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage présente les savoirs et savoir-faire les plus récents sur la pollution de l'eau en milieu rural et la dynamique de restauration de sa qualité. Les travaux abordés se situent principalement en région d'élevage, dans l'arc atlantique et particulièrement en Bretagne. Quatre thèmes sont développés : - les indicateurs, y compris biologiques, et les méthodologies de suivi des évolutions de la qualité - les outils et techniques innovants pour mieux gérer la fertilisation, la protection des cultures et pour intégrer l'aménagement rural - la modélisation (effet du milieu, des pratiques, des aménagements, scénarios) - la mobilisation des acteurs Ce livre intéressera un large public : scientifiques, agents du développement, agriculteurs, agents de l'administration et des collectivités territoriales.

Download or read book Agriculture et environnement written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture written by Hiroshan Hettiarachchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad and global level description of the current status of wastewater use in agriculture and then brings the readers to various places in the MENA Region and Europe to explain how some countries and regions have addressed the challenges during implementation. On a global scale, over 20 million hectares of agricultural land are irrigated using wastewater. This is one good, and perhaps the most prominent, example of the safe use potential of wastewater. Water scarcity and the cost of energy and fertilisers are among the main factors driving millions of farmers and other entrepreneurs to make use of wastewater. In order to address the technical, institutional, and policy challenges of safe water reuse, developing countries and countries in transition need clear institutional arrangements and more skilled human resources, with a sound understanding of the opportunities and potential risks of wastewater use. Stakeholders in wastewater irrigation who need to implement from scratch or improve current conditions, find it difficult to gather the necessary information on practical implementation aspects. The main objective of this book is to bridge that gap.

Download or read book L eau que nous sommes written by Pierre Rabhi and published by Presses du Châtelet. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un élément vital en périlQuoi de plus banal que d'énoncer que l'eau est à au coeur même de la vie - nous sommes constitués à 80 % d'eau ! Pourtant, cette incontestable vérité est trop souvent oubliée. La soixantaine de chercheurs, d'associations, d'agriculteurs, d'acteurs de la société civile interrogés ici ne cessent de le rappeler. Aujourd'hui, bien que nous parlions de biodiversité et de transition écologique, ceux qui disposent d'eau en abondance ont tendance à la banaliser... et par là même à la négliger. Et, par un usage irrationnel et irresponsable, nous sommes déjà en train de causer de lourds préjudices aux générations futures.Le plastique a envahi l'océan, les pesticides se retrouvent même dans le gras des baleines. L'océan, poumon de notre terre, est en danger, puisqu'il récupère toutes les pollutions terrestres. En France, la plupart de nos cours d'eau, et même les nappes phréatiques, sont pollués. Ce nouveau carnet d'alerte se propose d'enquêter sur cette large problématique, de l'agriculture, première source de pollution et première consommatrice d'eau dans le monde, à la gestion par des entreprises privées de ce bien commun. Sans oublier que 30% de la population mondiale n'a pas accès à l'eau potable...Comment gérer l'eau demain de façon plus écologique, équitable et locale ? L'eau nécessite plus que tout autre élément une gestion collective. Pierre Rabhi nous alerte : notre rapport à l'eau doit changer ; il est impératif que nous prenions conscience de sa valeur irremplaçable. L'eau, aujourd'hui polluée, gaspillée, source de toutes sortes de profits, pourrait très bien devenir, demain, l'une des solutions aux problèmes majeurs de notre société.

Download or read book L eau en milieu agricole written by Delphine Leenhardt and published by Quae. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’agriculture étant le premier usager de la ressource en eau, la durabilité de la gestion de l’eau en milieu rural est cruciale. En dépassant les approches sectorielles, l’ouvrage aborde la gestion de l’eau en milieu rural en termes d’objectifs et de démarches. Un panorama large des outils, des méthodes et des données actuellement disponibles est présenté et illustré par des exemples de mises en œuvre dans différents cas d’étude.

Download or read book Activit agricole et pollution de l eau written by Stéphane Pelzer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'activité agricole est, depuis toujours, une source de pollution pour l'eau. Ce lien s'est intensifié avec la mise en place d'une Politique agricole commune à l'échelle de l'Union européenne. En effet la Politique agricole commune s'est construite sur le productivisme en optimisant le rendement des terres, notamment par l'utilisation d'intrants chimiques et naturels, ce qui fut particulièrement préjudiciable pour la ressource hydrique.Cependant, un certain nombre de réformes ainsi qu'une législation et une fiscalité spécifiques se sont érigées dans le but de limiter les effets néfastes de l'agriculture sur la ressource hydrique ; or ces instruments juridiques et institutionnels se sont avérés peu efficaces. Dès lors, les pouvoirs publics se sont employés à responsabiliser les auteurs de telles pollutions à travers un régime de responsabilité approprié. En dépit de ces efforts, le caractère diffus de la pollution de l'eau a constitué un obstacle majeur à l'application d'un tel régime aux pollutions d'origine agricole.Aussi, les pouvoirs publics n'ont d'autre choix que celui de se tourner vers des instruments juridiques plus souples qui permettent d'associer le pollueur aux différentes mesures de lutte contre la pollution de l'eau, notamment à travers la participation et la contractualisation.

Download or read book Agriculture And Food written by A. K. Shrivastava and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discuss The Relationship Between Poverty And Natural Resource Degradations And The Ways That Are Needed To Make A Coordinated Attack In Law Degradation. Has Seven Chapters-Impact Of Pesticides A Human Health-Communicable Diseases-Population And Food Nutritional-Food And Environment Security-Water-Legal For Protection Of Environment-And Conditioning Of Environment.

Download or read book Theory Modeling and Experience in the Management of Nonpoint Source Pollution written by Clifford S. Russell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality. Since there is no `point', such as an outfall pipe, from which the pollution is being discharged and can be measured, pollution can reach the ambient environment without being monitored. Since management of air and water polution requires the definition and enforcement of limits on discharges or the imposition of fees on those discharges, inability to measure limits our ability to manage this environmental problem. This book presents a state-of-the-art review and discussion of economists' efforts to resolve this major problem and attempts to provide a way of working around it. The book sets forth the theoretical issues, modeling, and the actual programs set up to confront this issue.

Download or read book Integrated Land and Water Management for Food and Environmental Security written by and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nitrates agriculture eau written by R. Calvet and published by Editions Quae. This book was released on 1990 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions of this symposium on the relation agriculture-nitrogen-water deal with the economical aspects (cost evaluation and cost repartition), the quantitative approach of the nitrogen biochemical cycle, farming systems and nitrogen manegement, and land utilization, nitrogen management and water quality