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arable land in proportion to the pesticide mass discharged annually in a spring at minimum total transport cost. The approach … was applied to the Luxembourg Sandstone, a fractured-rock aquifer supplying half of the drinking water for Luxembourg …, using the herbicide atrazine. Predictions of the recharge areas were most robust in situations of strong competition by …
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By linking provincial pesticide usage reports from several Chinese statistical yearbooks (1998-2011) with the Chinese … between people who drink surface water and ground water in regions with different intensities of rice pesticide use before and …% increase in rice pesticide use unfavorably alters a key medical disability index (Activities of Daily Living or ADL) by 1% for …
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Groundwater pollution has increased in recent years due to the intensification of agricultural and livestock activities … polyurethane foam (PF) followed by a cork filter (CF) for removing nitrates, pesticides (atrazine and bromacil), and antibiotics … (sulfamethoxazole and sulfacetamide) from groundwater. Gene-based metataxonomic assessment showed that whereas green algae where most …
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The present study explores the impacts of pesticide usage and burned biomass on the ecological footprints in OECD … heteroskesedasticity and autocorrelation. In both estimations, the results find that pesticide usage and burned biomass have positive and … significant impacts on the ecological footprints of OECD countries but in particular pesticide usage has stronger effect in …
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The distinctive nature of environmental quality problems in agriculture — an industry based on the extraction of highly variable natural resources under stochastic conditions — has important implications for policy design. First, we examine the source of environmental quality problems and...
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farmers where approved. For the last two decades, an important matter of debate has been their impact on pesticide use …
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Genetically modified (GM) herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops have been largely adopted where they have been authorized. Nevertheless, they are fiercely criticized by some, notably because of the herbicide use associated with them. However, how much herbicide is applied to GMHT crops compared to...
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