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Pesticides - the Chemical Weapon that Kills Life
The USSR'S Tragic Experience
L.A. Fedorov & A.V. Yablokov
Experience of all former Soviet republics with the use of pesticides is imminent in order to properly understand the causes and effects of pesticide dissemination all over the globe. Never in any country has so much medical and biological research on the consequences of pesticide use been seen as in the USSR in the 1970's through 1980's. These data mostly remained secret until the 1990's. Part of this material is being presented here to the Western reader for the first time.
Among the problems discussed, there are: regulation, control, and economic use of pesticides in USSR agriculture; air, water and soil contamination; transformation of pesticides in the environment and in food products; human and animal poisoning by different types of pesticide; morbidity and mortality associated with pesticides, genetic effects, and effects on reproduction, endocrine and other systems; bioaccumulation; pesticides as poisons for cultivated plants; pesticide resistance in target species; connection of chemical weaponry plants with pesticide production.
Fedorov, L.A., Yablokov, A.V., 2004. Pesticides - the Chemical Weapon that Kills Life. The USSR'S Tragic Experience. ISBN 9546422053, Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 165x240, tables, figures, bibliography. In English, 136 pp., hardback.
Price €URO 34.70
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The Environment and the Violations of Human Rights
Special Report of the Commissioner on Human Rights in the Russian Federation
O. Mironov
A document enlightening the present state of the most crucial environmental problems in Russia and their impact on the human rights. It deals with the scope of issues associated with analyzing the situation in the field of the environment, with the impact of the environment on the lives and health of mankind, with execution of rights of citizens for a better environment, and incorporates reccomendations directed towards perfecting the activities of the state in guaranteeing and protecting environmental and associated rights of the citizens. Among the problems discussed are: air pollution, water pollution, radioactive contamination, non-jonizing eradiation, creating of sanitary protective zones and others.
Mironov, OO., 2004. The Environment and the Violations of Human Rights. Special Report of the Commissioner on Human Rights in the Russian Federation. ISBN 9546422126, Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 140x225. In English, 95 pp., paperback.
Price €URO 18.80
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