Main description:

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most global human enterprises, and as the world struggles with sustainable practices and policies, agricultural chemistry has a clear role to play. This book highlights the ways in which science in agriculture is helping to achieve global sustainability in the 21st century, and demonstrates that this science can and should be a leading contributor in discussion on environmental science and chemistry. The four drivers of this subject are presented, those being economic, environmental, regulatory and scientific, and help showcase agricultural chemistry as a dynamic subject that is contributing to this necessity of global sustainability in the 21st century.

Contents:

1.Criteria for Sustainable Agricultural Chemistry. 2. Agricultural chemistry in global sustainability. 3. Forces in agricultural chemistry and the need for circularity. 4. Life cycle assessment with circularity. 5. Use of natural resources affecting sustainability. 6. Use of natural resources affecting sustainability. 7. Unsustainable Agricultural Waste Streams. 8. Agricultural Chemistry in the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus. 9. Sustainable Intensive Agriculture. 10. Circularity - Environmental, Chemical, Agricultural. 11. Smart Agriculture through Agricultural Chemistry. 12. Crop Protection and Agricultural Green Chemistry. 13. Sustainable Agricultural Chemistry - The Biorefinery. 14. Epilogue - Building a Sustainable Agricultural Chemistry.