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Full Title

Pest and Vector Control 1st Edition

Author(s)

H. F. van Emden, M. W. Service

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780511162350, 9780521811958, 9780521010832, 9781280956072

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

As ravagers of crops and carriers of diseases affecting plants, humans and animals, insects present a challenge to a growing human population. In Pest and Vector Control, first published in 2004, Professors van Emden and Service describe the available options for meeting this challenge, discussing their relative advantages, disadvantages and future potential. Methods such as chemical and biological control, host tolerance and resistance are discussed integrating (often for the first time) information and experience from the agricultural and medical/veterinary fields. Chemical control is seen as a major component of insect control, both now and in the future, but this is balanced with an extensive account of associated problems, especially the development of pesticide-tolerant populations.