Decision Tools for Pest Management
Published in November 1993
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-0-85198-783-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85198-783-5 (9780851987835)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Philsophy, concepts and techniques, G.A. Norton; descriptive techniques, G.A. Norton and J.D. Mumford; decision analysis techniques, G.A. Norton and J.D. mumford; workshop techniques, G.A. Norton and J.D. Mumford; survey and knowledge acquisition techniques, J.D. Mumford and G.A. Norton; introduction to pest models, G.A. Norton et al; analytical models, T.H. Jones; simulation models, J. Holt and G.A. Norton; rule-based models, J. Holt and R.K. Day; modelling with spreadsheets, J.D. Mumford and J. Holt; expert systems, J.D. Mumford and G.A. Norton; pest management games, J.D. Mumford; database systems, J.D. Knight and R.K. Day; geographic information systems, D.L. Johnson; information retrieval for pest management, C.J. Hamilton; decision tools for biological control, J.K. Waage and N.D. Barlow; decision tools for extension, C. Garforth.