Management of Animal Waste: Environmental Health Problems and Technological Solutions / Edition 1

by Amer El-Ahraf, William V. Willis

Overview

Animal agriculture is a major industry in the United States and around the world. Like all major industries, animal operations generate a significant amount of waste by-products, by-products which represent serious potential environmental pollutants. This work is an attempt to help those concerned with animal waste management—agricultural economists and policy-makers, environmental and public health officers, farmers, and so on—deal with this critical issue by addressing the problems generated by animal waste within a comprehensive management approach. As animal production worldwide has taken on the characteristics of an industrial operation, the implications of large quantities of waste—disposal and/or refuse—must be analyzed in environmental, economic, and public health terms. This work provides such an analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275935290
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/14/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

AMER EL-AHRAF is Executive Vice President and Professor of Environmental Quality and Health at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and is the founding editor of California Jourbanal of Environmental Health. He is the past president of the National Environmental Health Association, founding chairman of International Forum of the Environmental Health Faculty, and recipient of the two most prestigious awards in the field, the 1992 Mangold Award and the 1993 Snyder Award.

WILLIAM V. WILLIS is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in analytical and environmental chemistry. His research interests include the development of chemical methods for pollutant analysis, and he has received many grants and contracts for environmental analysis and chemical research.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Major Environmental Health Concerns Associated with Animal Production
Visual Impact
Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Vectors of Disease
Public Attitudes
Traditional Technological Solutions
Economic Considerations
Traditional Techniques Used in Disposal and Utilization of Animal Waste
Innovative Technological Solutions
Use of Animal Waste as Substrate for Protein Synthesis by Microbes, Algae, and Insects
Recycling Animal Waste as Feed Ingredients for Farm Animals
Management and Regulatory Mechanisms
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: Animal waste is a quite specialized aspect of the environmental health sciences that is also of considerable importance to the agribusiness industry. This very specialized book examines health risks and problems associated with animal wastes and presents technological approaches to their management and control.
Purpose: Because this is a rather specialized area, this book attempts to present and analyze the current knowledge and research base to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the environmental risks associated with animal wastes. Research on potential control measures is also presented.
Audience: The book is written for several audiences. These include researchers, teachers, and students in the agricultural, environmental, and public health sciences.
Features: There are no illustrations and only a handful of tables. The table of contents and appearance are plain. The references, however, are extensive, exhaustive, and pertinent.
Assessment: This is a niche book that addresses a quite specialized area in a satisfactory manner. The book will be useful to selected audiences from the agricultural and environmental sciences. It will not be useful to many other audiences and would be best located in health science libraries associated with agricultural and environmental science departments in universities.

Doody's Review Service

3 Stars from Doody

Animal waste is a quite specialized aspect of the environmental health sciences that is also of considerable importance to the agribusiness industry. This very specialized book examines health risks and problems associated with animal wastes and presents technological approaches to their management and control. Because this is a rather specialized area, this book attempts to present and analyze the current knowledge and research base to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the environmental risks associated with animal wastes. Research on potential control measures is also presented. The book is written for several audiences. These include researchers, teachers, and students in the agricultural, environmental, and public health sciences. There are no illustrations and only a handful of tables. The table of contents and appearance are plain. The references, however, are extensive, exhaustive, and pertinent. This is a niche book that addresses a quite specialized area in a satisfactory manner. The book will be useful to selected audiences from the agricultural and environmental sciences. It will not be useful to many other audiences and would be best located in health science libraries associated with agricultural and environmental science departments in universities.

Bernard J. Turnock

Few people now remember that when the automobile replaced horses, it alleviated the number one pollution problem of American cities. As feedlots, dairies, and other animal production have taken on the concentration and intensification of industry, the resulting animal waste has kept step. Scholars of environmental quality and health and of analytical chemistry examine the range of problems caused by animal waste, and suggest innovative, often high-tech methods of reducing the impact without raising the cost of food or losing valuable resources. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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