Pesticides offers agricultural and plant scientists, entomologists, environmental scientists, biochemists and chemists, regulators, government departments, and libraries valuable insight into the realities of the current situation, workable strategies for pesticide use, and a glimpse of what the future might hold.

Pesticides features:

• analyzing of why pesticide use continues to be a problem
• identifying alternative strategies to circumvent the current problems of agricultural pesticide use
• exploring, from several perspectives, what the future of pesticide use in agriculture may be like

Contents

1. Questions Around the Persistence of the Pesticide Problem
2. An Agricultural Vision
3. The Authorisation of Pesticides in the Light of Sustainbility
4. Innovation in the Agrochemical Industry
5. Regulatory Science in an International Regime: An Institutional Analysis
6. Farmers' Agrochemical Use Deicisions and the Potential of Efficiency and Innovation Offsets
7. Variations in Agricultural Practice and Environmental Care
8. Assessing the Environmental Performance of Agricultural: Pesticide Use, Risk and Management Indicators
9. Intergrated Assessment of Pesticides: Methods for Predicting and Detecting Environmental Risks in a Safety Net
10. Site-Specific Pest Management
11. New Biotechnology, Crop Protection and Sustainable Development
12. European Food Industry Initatives Reducing Pesticide Use
13. Impact of International Policies and Agreements on The Development of Organic Farming
14. Integration: Learning to Solve the Pesticide Problem

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