Management of Animal Waste: Environmental Health Problems and Technological Solutions [Hardcover]

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 managementagricultural economists and policy-makers, environmental and public health officers, farmers, and so ondeal 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 wastedisposal and/or refusemust be analyzed in environmental, economic, and public health terms. This work provides such an analysis.

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 ofCalifornia Journal 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.

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 UsedlCI