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Biopesticides [recurso electrónico] : Pest Management and Regulation / Alastair Bailey ... [et al.].

Material type: TextPublisher: Wallingford : CABI, 2010Description: 238 p. : recurso en lineaISBN:
  • 9781845935597 print
  • 9781845935900 electronic bk.
Contained works:
  • Bailey, Alastair
  • Ebooks Corporation
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 632.96
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Contents:
Contenido: 1. Introduction; 2. Pests of Crops; 3. Pest Management with Biopesticides; 4. The Economics of Making the Switch in Technologies; 5. The Regulation of Biopesticides: an International Analysis; 6. Policy Networks, Change and Innovation; 7. Retail Governance; 8. Conclusions; Index
Abstract: Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. Chemical pesticide methods are becoming less readily available due to increasing resistance problems and the prohibition of some substances. This book addresses the challenges of insufficient information and imperfectly understood regulatory processes in using biopesticides. It takes an interdisciplinary approach providing internationally comparative analyses on the registration of biopesticides and debates future biopesticide practices.
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Contenido: 1. Introduction; 2. Pests of Crops; 3. Pest Management with Biopesticides; 4. The Economics of Making the Switch in Technologies; 5. The Regulation of Biopesticides: an International Analysis; 6. Policy Networks, Change and Innovation; 7. Retail Governance; 8. Conclusions; Index

Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. Chemical pesticide methods are becoming less readily available due to increasing resistance problems and the prohibition of some substances. This book addresses the challenges of insufficient information and imperfectly understood regulatory processes in using biopesticides. It takes an interdisciplinary approach providing internationally comparative analyses on the registration of biopesticides and debates future biopesticide practices.

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