Pesticides and Pollution (Colllins New Naturalist Series) - Hardcover
Pesticides and Pollution examines the problems of pollution of air, land, river, and the sea, by herbicides, pesticides, sewage, industrial effluents, gases, radiation, leakages, over-drainage, mistakes and mismanagement, in Britain today. This edition is produced from an original copy by William Collins.
From an objective and scientific standpoint, Dr. Mellanby examines the problems of pollution of air, land, river, and the sea, by herbicides, pesticides, sewage, industrial effluents, gases, radiation, leakages, over-drainage, mistakes and mismanagement, in Britain to-day. He sets out to placate neither farmers nor naturalists, but to explain in each case what is happening, to point to both dangers and practical necessities, and to discuss what steps should be taken.
Dr. Mellanby is Director of the Nature Conservancy's Monks Wood Experimental Station, was head of the Entomology department at Rothamsted, and for many years before that did research in medical entomology both in Britain and the tropics.
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'Kenneth Mellanby has written a great book. It is calm, logical and dispassionate, but deeply moving and disturbing. When facts can be given with precision, he states them. If he can explain them, he does so: if he cannot, he says so. This book deals with an immense problem - man's pollution of the planet he lives on. It is written with immense understanding and immense fairness. It makes fascinating, absorbing reading.'
British Medical Journal
'Here at last we have a handbook that any emotionally inclined person should study before ranting about chemicals; a dispassionate, well-thought-out reference book. It enables us also to understand some of the problems underlying our survival.'
Country Life
'Dr. Mellanby has written a first-class book which is a delight to read.'
Annals of Applied Biology
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0002131773
- ISBN 13 9780002131773
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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PESTICIDES AND POLLUTION. By Kenneth Mellanby. New Naturalist No. 50.
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Book Description (Hardcover, 1970). (1967) 1972 2nd edition reprint. 8vo (150 x 223mm). Pp221. Colour & b/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Ex library, usual faults. Working copy in non-price clipped dust-wrapper. "From an objective and scientific standpoint, [the author] examines the problems of pollution of air, land, river, and sea, by herbicides, pesticides, sewage, industrial effluents, gases, radiation, leadkages, over-drainage, mistakes and mismanagement, in Britain to-day. He sets out to placate neither farmers nor naturalists, but to explain in each case what is happening, to point to both dangers and practical necessities, and to discuss what steps should be taken." Chapters include: Air pollution; Water pollution; radiation; Pollution of the ocean and the shore; Herbicides and weed control; fungicides; Insecticides and insect control; Substances used to control other invertebrate pests; The future - improvement or disaster? An appendix gives the composition of some chemicals mentioned in the text. Well worth a read, especially in the light of what has happened in the years since publication. . Seller Inventory # 50934
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