Rational Environmental Management of Agrochemicals

Abstract

Overview 1. Achieving rational use of agrochemicals: Environmental chemistry in action Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment 2. Simple fugacity models of off-site exposure to agrochemicals 3. Pesticide risk indicators - Their role in minimising off-site impacts of pesticides on water quality. 4. Development of a decision-making tool to minimise environmental and public health risk of pesticide application 5. Evaluation of the standard quotient and EcoRR methodologies based on field monitoring from rice fields 6. Comparative hazard assessment of the substances used for production and control of coca and poppy in Colombia 7. Geographical extrapolation of pesticide environmental fate data: challenges, risks and opportunites 8. Rain simulation to estimate pesticide transport in runoff Monitoring 9. Progress in the development of biosensors for environmental and human monitoring of agrochemicals 10. Recombinant antibodies for agrochemicals - Evolutionary optimization 11. Non-competitive fluorescent immunoassay for the detection of the human urinary biomarker 3-phenoxybenzoic acid with bench top immunosensor KinExATM3000 12. Optical immunosensor and ELISA for the analysis of pyrethroids and DDT in environmental samples 13. Immunological determination of the pharmaceutical diclofenac in environmental and biological samples 14. A comprehensive approach to biological monitoring of pesticides in urine 15. Application of a cyclodiene-specific ELISA to residue monitoring in agricultural produce and the environment in Vietnam 16. Monitoring pesticides in the paddy field ecosystem of North-Eastern Thailand for environmental and health risks 17. Simultaneous measurement of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab and Cry3B proteins in corn extracts Risk Management and Remediation 18. Carbamate pesticides and their biological degradation - Prospects for enzymatic bioremediation 19. Anti-fungal antibodies in plant pathology 20. Pesticide risk reduction by management practices - An environmental case study of the Australian cotton industry 21. Lessons for achieving effective management from field research on agrochemicals 22. Minimising riverine impacts of endosulfan used in cotton farming - A science into practice environmental success story