Overview
- Provides an overview of the One Health implications of agrochemical use
- Presents viable knowledge and evidence-based sustainable alternatives to chemical use in agriculture
- Covers the multidimensional issues of agrochemical use thus focusing on SDGs 3, 12 and 15
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity (SDEB, volume 34)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biodiversity and Human Health Impacts of Agrochemicals
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Food Production, Safety, Security, Sovereignty and the Economic Implications of Agrochemical Use
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About this book
This book focuses on the United Nations SDG 3, SDG 12, and SDG 15. The book covers the full range of issues associated with agrochemical use from a One Health standpoint to promote a cleaner and safer alternative that leaves little to no negative legacy on Earth’s natural, social, and economic systems. The main focus of the book is to address the biodiversity and human health, food security, and socio-environmental implications of agrochemical use in food production. It deals with the need to move away from the use of harmful chemicals in agriculture. The threat to key aspects of One Health will be used as evidence in support of the need to transition to safer and cleaner food production systems as well as the social, economic, health, and environmental viability of sustainable alternatives.
One Health is the innovative convergence approach that encourages collaborative, cross-sectoral, and transdisciplinary methods to monitor, assess, report, and implement sharedhuman health, biodiversity, and environmental challenges and goals such as agrochemical use. Conventional agrochemicals are chemicals used to protect plants, improve crop yield and manage agricultural fields but also have a negative legacy on Earth’s systems.
This book is of interest and useful to agricultural trainees and trainers, soil, food and agricultural institutes, food and soil systems specialists, biodiversity and environmental managers, activists, practitioners, and students. It is also a useful read for conservationists and industries interested in promoting organic agriculture for a sustainable community, regional and global development.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Matthew Chidozie Ogwu is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Ecology and Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University, USA. He is an interdisciplinary academic with transdisciplinary skills and diverse convergence research interests (One Health and Eco Health) pertinent to the assessment of coupled human and natural as well as socio-ecological systems and has numerous awards, research grants, and scholarships to his name. Dr. Ogwu serves on the board of and as a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals. He continues to volunteer his time and skills to promote sustainable development.
Dr. Sylvester Chibueze Izah is a lecturer at Bayelsa Medical University in Yenagoa, Nigeria, where he also serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Planning, Research, and Innovations. Dr. Izah is a licensed Environmental Health Specialist in Nigeria. He is a multidisciplinary academic with multifaceted abilities relevant to SustainableHuman-Environmental Health Interactions (covering air, soil, and water quality; toxicology; hygiene and sanitation; food science; waste management; biodiversity and their sustainability and risk assessment).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: One Health Implications of Agrochemicals and their Sustainable Alternatives
Editors: Matthew Chidozie Ogwu, Sylvester Chibueze Izah
Series Title: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3439-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3438-6Published: 04 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3441-6Due: 10 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-3439-3Published: 03 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2352-474X
Series E-ISSN: 2352-4758
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 826
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Agricultural Ethics, Agriculture