Sustainable Pest Management by Thomas, Matthew; Dent, David;

Rövid leírás:

* Takes a fully integrated approach to the subject

* International examples

* Authors have wide range of experience looking at integrated pest management strategies;

* Draws conclusions for future strategies and research.

Hosszú leírás:

This ground?breaking new book examines why and how current approaches to integrated pest management (IPM) have become established and identifies factors that need to change if more effective and sustainable IPM is to be developed. Taking an integrative approach, the book looks firstly at principles of population and community ecology and how they can be applied to agro?ecosystems, and at what constitutes sustainability at an ecological level.

Consideration is then given to the economic and socio?political issues that act to shape production and IPM at the farm level and exploration is made of the incentives and conflicts that shape the decision making process amongst key stakeholders (researchers, farmers, consumers, industry personnel and policy makers).

Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction; Current status of pest management; Ecological sustainability; Economic sustainability; Political and social issues in sustainability; Integrating the elements of sustainability.