edited by W. B. Wheeler

Exploring the agricultural, economic, and regulatory factors that affect pesticide use, this reference examines crop and pest ecology, integrated pest management principles, and emerging analytical tools to improve the efficacy and cost-efficiency of pest control.

Summarizes advances and trends in the crop protection industry—detailing hybrid seed and generic pesticide production, sophisticated mechanization, improved pesticide formulations, and plant biotechnology.

Pesticides in Agriculture and the Environment offers:

• a step-by-step presentation of health risk assessment
• useful techniques to identify safety hazards, assess the dose–response relationship, and characterize the ecological risks of pesticide compounds
• recent strategies to screen, predict, and control environmental impact and transport processes, such as dissipation, leaching, and degradation

and covers:

• the effects of pesticide resistance, such as economic failure, crop displacement, and chemical overuse
• the development of safe and effective pesticides for agricultural commodities
• the major components of twelve worldwide multiresidue methods

Discussing the range of effects of pesticides on food and human safety, water quality, wildlife, and pest management, Pesticides in Agriculture and the Environment is an illuminating and timely guide for entomologists, plant pathologists, weed specialists, agriculturists, toxicologists, ecologists, environmental scientists, biotechnologists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

1. Three Decades of Federal Integrated Pest Management Policy
2. Biological Control
3. Economic Issues of Agricultural Pesticide Use and Policy in the United States
4. Risk Assessment
5. Environmental Fate of Pesticides
6. Pesticide Residue Procedures for Raw Agricultural Commodities: An International View
7. Pest Management Issues on Minor Crops
8. Arthropod Resistance to Pesticides: Status and Overview
9. New Technologies for the Delivery of Pesticides in Agriculture
10. Evolution of the Crop Protection Industry

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