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Pesticides
Sheets, T.J.; Pimentel, David, Phd
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Description for Pesticides
Hardback. An examination of major elements of the strategies of integrated pest control such as: pesticide increased agricultural production; socioeconomics of pesticides; pesticide use cost/benefit ratios; and human health and pesticides. Series: Contemporary Issues in Science and Society. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RNP; TVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 465.
Chemical pesticides continue as a point of major controversy in our society. Increasingly stringent regulatory actions on the part of state and federal agencies, exemplified by the RPAR (Rebuttable Presump tion Against Registration) program of the Environmental Protection Agency, are supported by environmental groups and are generally op posed or viewed with skepticism by agriculturalists. The energy crisis invokes other questions on benefits of pesticides versus nonchemical controls and effects on labor utilization. As DDT and other persistent pesticides have been phased out, the more labile, short-lived chemicals have filled the voids in pest management systems; and effects on nontarget ... Read more
Chemical pesticides continue as a point of major controversy in our society. Increasingly stringent regulatory actions on the part of state and federal agencies, exemplified by the RPAR (Rebuttable Presump tion Against Registration) program of the Environmental Protection Agency, are supported by environmental groups and are generally op posed or viewed with skepticism by agriculturalists. The energy crisis invokes other questions on benefits of pesticides versus nonchemical controls and effects on labor utilization. As DDT and other persistent pesticides have been phased out, the more labile, short-lived chemicals have filled the voids in pest management systems; and effects on nontarget ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Issues in Science and Society
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
Totowa, NJ, United States
ISBN
9780896030053
SKU
V9780896030053
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