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Preface Studies of the behavior and effects of pesticides in the environment have been conducted for decades and have been the subject of numerous symposia at American Chemical Society meetings. Originally most of this work focused on agricultural settings, but in the past three decades there has been increasing interest also in non-agricultural uses of pesticides. In the past few years, increasing attention has been paid to uses in residential settings. This ACS Symposium Series volume consists of 13 book chapters from authors making presentations at two symposia at the American Chemical Society 246th National Meeting and Exposition in September 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana. All deal with agricultural and non-agricultural uses of pesticides. Ten of these book chapters are from authors making presentations at the symposium entitled Assessing Potential Ecological and Human Health Effects from Fertilizer and Pesticide Use in Urban Environments, while the remaining three are from modeling papers from the symposium entitled Environmental Fate, Transport, and Modeling of Agriculturally Related Chemicals. The book chapters cover a number of different topics related to non-agricultural uses of pesticides, including: transport mechanisms associated with residential applications and associated modeling of these processes; modeling of storm water discharges from residential subdivisions; bioassessments performed on urban streams; monitoring of large rivers receiving water from urban areas; residues entering POTW (publicly owned treatment works, i.e., sewage treatment plants); analytical methods; and aspects related to the regulation of non-agricultural uses of pesticides. The three papers dealing with modeling of agricultural uses of pesticides consider screening assessments for considering potential movement to ground water, the sensitivity of model parameters used in assessing potential movement to surface water, and refined assessments for surface water catchments We thank the AGRO Division of the American Chemical Society for including these two symposia in their 2014 fall meeting. We also thank the authors for the careful preparation of the book chapters and their cooperation with the review process. As a result, we believe that this ACS Symposium provides useful information on recent developments in a number of areas related to describing the behavior and effects of pesticides in urban and agricultural settings. Russell L. Jones Bayer CropScience 2 T. W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, United States ix Jones et al.; Describing the Behavior and Effects of Pesticides in Urban and Agricultural Settings ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2014.
Mah Shamim Office of Pesticide Programs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, United States
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Scott H. Jackson BASF 26 Davis Drive Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, United States
x Jones et al.; Describing the Behavior and Effects of Pesticides in Urban and Agricultural Settings ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2014.
