Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture
The Making of Science Careers in North America, 1885-1985
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; 3;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 August 1996
- ISBN 9783718659074
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This study is facilitated by following economic entomologists' and ecologists' changing ideas about different pest control stategies, chiefly 'chemical', 'biological' and 'integrated' control.
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This study is facilitated by following economic entomologists' and ecologists' changing ideas about different pest control strategies, chiefly 'chemical', 'biological', and 'integrated' control. The author then follows the efforts of one specific group of entomologists, at the University of California, over three generations from their advocacy of 'biological' controls in the 1930s and 40s, through their shifting attention to the development of an 'integrated pest management' in the context of 'big biology' during the 1970s.
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INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Entomology in the United States; Chapter 2 Entomology in Canada; Chapter 3 Biological Control in the United States and Canada; Chapter 4 Biological Control, Integrated Control, and Ecological Theory; Chapter 5 Environmentalism and Entomological Research, 1960–1975; Chapter 6 Ecological Modeling and Integrated Pest Management; Conclusion; Index;
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