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Urban Insect Pests: Sustainable Management Strategies
Partho Dhang
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Description for Urban Insect Pests: Sustainable Management Strategies
Hardcover. A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies. From an environmental and health perspective, it is not always practical to spray chemicals, so this work discusses sustainable control and best practice methods for managing insects. Editor(s): Dhang, Partho. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: TVP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 178 x 246 x 22. Weight in Grams: 762.
A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies that look beyond products. From an environmental and health perspective, it is not always practical to spray chemicals indoors or in urban settings, so this work discusses sustainable control and best practice methods for managing insects that are vectors of disease, nuisance pests and the cause of structural damage.
A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies that look beyond products. From an environmental and health perspective, it is not always practical to spray chemicals indoors or in urban settings, so this work discusses sustainable control and best practice methods for managing insects that are vectors of disease, nuisance pests and the cause of structural damage.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
CABI
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780642758
SKU
V9781780642758
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Partho Dhang
Partho Dhang received his PhD in Life Science from the University of Madras, India. His research interests are on insecticides, natural product chemistry, insect pheromones, biopesticides, and insecticide baits. Partho Dhang is a prolific writer and speaker in the International pest control market. He has spoken in many international conferences such as NPMA, ICUP, IRG, Pest Summit, FAOPMA, TRG, Rapid Conference etc. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in international journal of repute. He has edited and written four books on "Urban Pest Management" which are all published by CAB International. Presently Partho Dhang lives in Philippines and in India. Michael K. Rust is the Distinguished Professor of Graduate Division at the University of California. He has authored or co-authored ~200 papers dealing with urban insect pests and their control. He co-edited the seminal reference, Understanding and Controlling the German Cockroach (1995). Over the years, he has mentored 17 PhD and 14 MS students majoring in urban entomology. He has received numerous awards over the years including Distinguished Achievement Award in Urban Entomology, Entomology Society of America (1993), W.W. Woodworth Award, Pacific Branch of the Entomology Society of America (1994), Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (2001) and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002). His current research is focused on the interaction of sprays and baits to control German cockroaches.
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