Around 2.5 million tons of pesticide are used every year. This volume outlines the techniques for reducing pesticide use internationally, through using integrated pesticide management, and from this to assess the environmental and economic benefits that such a reduction will bring.

Describes preventive aspects of pest management, including forecasting, modeling, conservation, monitoring, and scouting. This book explores effective, economical, and environmentally compatible pest management systems. It discusses various pesticide and biocide laws and regulations, and examines the human health impact and cost of pesticide use.

Chemical pesticides continue as a point of major controversy in our society. Increasingly stringent regulatory actions on the part of state and federal agencies, exemplified by the RPAR (Rebuttable Presump- tion Against Registration) program of the Environmental Protection Agency, are supported by environmental groups and are generally op- posed or viewed with skepticism by agriculturalists. The energy crisis invokes other questions on benefits of pesticides versus nonchemical controls and effects on labor utilization. As DDT and other persistent pesticides have been phased out, the more...

Since the publication of the first edition of Food, Energy, and Society, the world s natural resources have become even more diminished due to the rapid expansion of the global human population. We are faced with dwindling food supplies in certain geographic areas, increasing pressure on energy resources, and the imminent extinction of many threatened species. In light of these major issues, this third edition presents an updated and expanded analysis on the interdependency of food, energy, water, land, and biological resources.

Written by internationally renowned experts, the book...

With contributions from more than 200 esteemed international authorities and containing approximately 200 entries, the Encyclopedia of Pest Management, Volume II is a key reference for professionals in academia, industry, and government, as well as students at all levels. It is designed to be regularly consulted for immediate and precise information to guide students, scientists, workers, policy makers, and the public. Contributions address a wide spectrum of scientific and human topics, concepts, methodologies, strategies, solutions, questions, and dilemmas. It provides numerous references,...