Editorial: Environmental impacts of pesticides: Environmental fate, ecotoxicology, risk assessment, and remediation

Pyrethroid Insecticides: Use, Environmental Fate, and Ecotoxicology

There was little public concern over potential nontarget effects of pesticides until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (Delaplane, 2000; Moore et al., 2009). Organochlorine insecticides (such as DDT) had been used intensively and were credited for many of the problems highlighted by Carson. Because of their accumulation in the environment and reproductive toxicity in people,...

Pesticides: Environmental Impacts and Management Strategies

Increase in food production is the prime-most objective of all countries, as world population is expected to grow to nearly 10 billion by 2050. Based on evidence, world population is increasing by an estimated 97 million per year (Saravi and Shokrzadeh, 2011). The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has in-fact issued a sobering forecast that world food production nee...

Environmental Risk Assessment of pesticide use based on the modelling of the environmental fate of pesticides in soil

Based on laboratory and field experiments the environmental fate of four selected pesticides (Dimethoate, Fenvalerate, Malathion, and Metalaxyl) in the Jhikhu-Khola watershed, Nepal was investigated, both on soils representative for irrigated (khet) and rainfed (bari) conditions. The degradation, sorption, and transport behaviour were described with deterministic mathematical models. Based on t...

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Hexachlorobutadiene – Sources , environmental fate and risk characterisation