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Record Nr.

UNINA9910671450803321

Autore

Angelo Mary Jane

Titolo

Food, agriculture, and environmental law / / by Mary Jane Angelo, Jason J. Czarnezki, and WIlliam S. Eubanks II

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Environmental Law Institute, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-63459-126-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

344.73046

Soggetti

Environmental law - United States

Environmentalism - Social aspects - United States

Sustainable agriculture

Food

Agriculture and state - Environmental aspects - United States

Agricultural laws and legislation - Environmental aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

A brief history of U.S. agricultural policy and the farm bill -- An overview of the modern farm bill -- The environmental impacts of industrial fertilizers and pesticides -- Agricultural irrigation -- The industrialization of animal agriculture : connecting a model with its impacts on the environment -- Genetically modified organisms and the environment -- Environmental and climate impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution -- The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- Agriculture and the Clean Water Act -- Agriculture and the Clean Air Act -- Agriculture and the Endangered Species Act -- Agriculture, food, and the National Environmental Policy Act -- The food statutes -- Agriculture and ecosystem services : paying farmers to do the new right thing -- Achieving a sustainabile farm bill -- Registering transgenic crops pursuant to the Plant Protection Act -- The future of food eco-labeling : a comparative analysis -- Into the future : building a sustainable and resilient agricultural system for a



changing global environment.