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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Phosphorus
    sub title: An Element that could have been called Lucifer
  name:
    name part: Butusov, Mikhail.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Jernelöv, Arne.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 101 p. 27 illus., 17 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book starts with depiction of the phosphorus role in life creation and evolution. Then it outlines in which vital processes different phosphates participate in life of all flora and fauna, from DNA molecules till body tissues. Crucial function of phosphates was noticed long ago, but only in XIX century discovery of mineral fertilizers made it possible to sustain the needs of growing global population, thus initiating a “green revolution”. Though, for many decades after it, the complexity of interactions “fertilizer-soil-plant roots” was underrated, causing massive damages, such as soil destruction and eutrophication of waters. Still, mining of exhausting natural phosphate reserves continued worldwide. Lessons of what happened in XIX century due to scarcity of phosphates were ignored. In the meantime, production of phosphates reached its peak few years ago. Immediate implementation of phosphate recycling technologies from municipal wastes can help avoid imminent global disaster.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Role of Phosphorous in the Origin of Life and in Evolution -- Phosphorous in the Organic Life - Cells, Tissues, Organisms -- Phosphorous in Social Life -- Silent Underground Life -- Fertilizers - 100 Years of Supremacy -- Non-Fertilizer Uses of Phosphorous -- Eutrophication -- The Politics of P -- Peak Phosphorous -- Phosphate Recycling or Welcome from Lucifer?.
  note: by Mikhail Butusov, Arne Jernelöv.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Mineral resources
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry/Food Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Mineral Resources
  classification: GE195-199
  classification: GE196
  classification: 338.927
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science, 9
  identifier: 9781461468035
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6803-5
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    record creation date: 130327
    record change date: 20151031081044.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-6803-5