Publisher's Synopsis
While the philosophy and ideas of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) are now widely accepted in the political and scientific arena, its practical implementation has proved more difficult to achieve. One approach to this challenge may be to focus more on individual specific problems and use current techniques to tackle them. This is the problem-based approach adopted by this book, which uses an interdisciplinary perspective encompassing the political, social and economic dimensions of pest problems, as well as their agronomic, ecological and technological features. Rather than providing comprehensive literature reviews, the authors provide a working manual covering problem-definition tools, computer tools (including modelling and database or information systems) and implementation tools.
