Overview
- Use and benefit of pesticides in agricultural pest control
- Hazards and problems with the use of pesticides
- Crop production without the use of pesticides, organic agriculture
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book deals with the present state and problems of integrated pest management as relating to stakeholder acceptance of IPM and how integrated pest management can become a sustainable practice. The discussions include using less pesticides and the possibility of eliminating pesticides from agricultural practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Pimentel is a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. His Ph.D. is from Cornell University. His research spans the fields of energy, ecological and economic aspects of pest control, biological control, biotechnology, sustainable agriculture, land and water conservation, and environmental policy. Pimentel has published over 700 scientific papers and 40 books and has served on many national and government committees including the National Academy of Sciences; President’s Science Advisory Council; U.S Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress; and the U.S. State Department.
Rajinder Peshin is an associate professor at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, India. His Ph.D. is from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. His research expertise is diffusion and evaluation issues associated with sustainable agriculture research and development programs. Peshin has developed an empirical model for predicting the adoptability of agricultural technologies when put to trial at farmers’ fields, and an evaluation methodology for integrated pest management programs. He has published more than 50 scientific papers and chapters of books, and has authored three books. He has also edited two books on integrated pest management, published by Springer in 2009.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrated Pest Management
Book Subtitle: Pesticide Problems, Vol.3
Editors: David Pimentel, Rajinder Peshin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7796-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7795-8Published: 30 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0022-9Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7796-5Published: 10 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 474
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entomology, Agriculture, Plant Pathology, Sustainable Development