Preface

Organizing Committee; International Advisory Board; Sponsors

List of Contributors

SECTION 1: TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTALLY ACCEPTABLE PEST MANAGEMENT

1. Safer and more effective insecticides for the future

John E. Casida

Gary B. Quistad

2. From Homo economicus to Homo ecologicus: towards environmentally safe pest control

J.C. van Lenteren

3. Classical biological control: an environmental boon or bane?

David Rosen

4. Soil disinfestation: environmental problems and solutions

Jaacov Katan

5. Minimizing environmental damage originating from pesticide utilization: abiotic photochemical control and remediation

Nicola Senesi

Elisabetta Loffredo

6. Neem, eco-friendly, IPM-compatible plant-derived bioinsecticide: some new findings

K.R.S. Ascher

7. Utilization of scorpion insecticidal neurotoxins and baculoviruses of the design of novel selective biopesticides

Michael Gurevitz

Noam Zilberberg

Oren Froy

Daniel Urbach

Eliahu Zlotkin

Bruce D. Hammock

Rafael Herrmann

Haim Moskowitz

Nor Chejanovsky

8. Nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria as BTi toxin genes delivery system -- a biotechnological approach to control malaria mosquitoes

Sammy Boussiba

Wu Xiaoqiang

Arieh Zaritsky

9. Structure-function analysis of PBAN/MRCH: a basis for antagonist design

Miriam Altstein

Ezra Dunkelblum

Yoav Gazit

Orna Ben Aziz

Tal Gabay

Zvi Vogel

Jacob Barg

10. Estimation of metolachlor volatilization from agricultural fields using a micrometeorological approach

J.H. Prueger

J.L. Hatfield

T.J. Sauer

11. Titanium dioxide photocatalysis for the treatment of contaminated waters

Lea Muszkat

SECTION II: FERTILISERS IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

12. Site-oriented ecosystem management: precondition to reducing the contamination of waters and the atmosphere

R.E. Hantschel

F. Beese

13. Minimising surface and ground-water pollution from fertiliser application

Paolo Sequi

Roberto Indiati

14. Considerations in fertiliser application to prevent ground-water contamination

U. Kafkafi

15. Application of controlled release fertilisers in the Florida citrus industry

J.J. Ferguson

F.S. Davies

SECTION III: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF AQUACULTURE

16. Aquaculture and the environment: change and challenge

James F. Muir

17. Biological removal of inorganic nitrogen and organic matter in closed, intensive fish culture systems

Jaap van Rijn

18. Ultrastructure and cellular activity of fish skin in metal-polluted water

Y. Iger

M. Abraham

E. Kimmel

S.E. Wendelaar Bonga

SECTION IV: MODELLING OF AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION

19. Modelling pesticide transport in porous media

R.J. Wagenet

P.M. Tillotson

J.L. Hutson

20. Comparative ecosystem research as a basis for agro-ecological modelling

O.Franzle

21. Application of EPIC within an integrated modelling system to evaluate soil erosion in the Canadian Prairies

R.C. Izaurralde

P.W. Gassman

A. Bouzaher

J. Tajek

P.G. Laksminarayan

J. Dumanski

J.R. Kiniry

22. A model to predict the release rate of nitrogen from polymer-coated urea

Mingchu Zhang

M. Nyborg

R.C. Izaurralde

SECTION V: WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND IRRIGATION

23. Sewage sludge: land utilisation and the environment: toxic organic considerations

G.A. O'Connor

24. New technologies for disinfection of domestic effluents for agricultural reuse

A. Acher

E. Fischer

Y. Manor

25. Effects of irrigation with secondary sewage effluent on the transport of soil-borne pesticides

Ellen R. Graber

26. Early detection of irrigation environmental risks using monitoring manholes: a case study of the Southern Ukraine

M. Zilberbrand

27. Use of wastewater from livestock farms for irrigation in Yugoslavia

J, Milivojevic

M. Ljesevic

M. Nedic

SECTION VI: RECYCLING OF MUNICIPAL AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES

28. Composting and recycling of organic wastes

Yona Chen

Yossi Inbar

Benny Chefetz

Yitzhak Hadar

29. Impacts of compost quality on plant disease severity

H.A.J. Hoitink

M.E. Grebus

A.G. Stone

30. Suppressiveness of municipal solid waste composts to plant diseases induced by soilborne pathogens

C. Serra-Wittling

C. Alabouvette

S. Houot

F. Rouxel

31. On the agronomic use of municipal solid waste compost: principles and applications

Yoram Avnimelech

Malka Kochva

32. Chemical and electron spin resonance properties of municipal solid waste composts

J. Drozd

A. Jezierski

Y. Chen

33. Variations with pedoclimatic conditions of an anaerobically digested liquid sewage sludge C mineralisation and its N-NO3- availability

S. Houot

L. Cadot

V. Gnanalingam

34. Solid waste management in Israel

Yossi Inbar

Ilan Nissim

Dekel Amir-Shapira

SECTION VII: POLLUTION BY HEAVY METALS

35. Biofiltration of heavy metals by the aquatic fern Azolla

Elisha Tel-Or

Moti Sela

Shaul Ravid

36. Modelling the mobilising effect of olive mill wastewater on heavy metals adsorbed by a soil

L. Madrid

E. Diaz-Barrientos

37. Soil Microbial biomass as market of heavy metal contamination and bioavailability

L. Leita

G. Muhlbachova

C. Mondini

L. Marchiol

M. DeNobili

38. Copper and lead species in soil and their uptake by plants when applied as carbonates

Anna Chlopecka

39. Levels of copper, zinc and manganese in the vineyard soils of Dao wine region -- Portugal

R.S. Dias

J.C. Soveral-Dias

SECTION VIII: BIOREMEDIATION

40. Bioremediation in agriculture: dream or reality?

Y. Henis

41. Microbial transformation of pesticides in agricultural soil

D. Levanon

42. Biological atrazine destruction mediated by bacteria

Raphi T. Mandelbaum

Nir Shafir

Larissa Kautzki

43. Removal of lead from aqueous solutions by a Brevibacterium strain

V. Andreoni

M. Colombo

D. Di Simine

C. Finoli

G. Origgi

A. Vecchio

R. Carzaniga

44. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation by white rot fungi

M. Wolter

F. Zadrazil

R. Martens

M. Bahadir

45. Potential utilisation of phenoloxidases immobilised in organic gels for decontamination of polluted sites

C. Crecchio

P. Ruggiero

M.D.R. Pizzigallo

M. Curci

SECTION IX: ECONOMIC AND POLICY ASPECTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES

46. Economics and sustainable development

David Zilberman

47. Homogeneity and heterogeneity of bio-resources in economic models

Eithan Hochman

Eyal Brill

48. Problems and prospects in the political economy of trans-boundary water issues

Richard E. Just

John K. Horowitz

Sinaia Netanyahu

49. Australian decentralised water allocation

Norman J. Dudley

50. The practical impact of ecological chemical principles

F. Korte

51. Reuse of effluent: Israel as a model