Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture (inbunden)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
1996-08-01
Förlag
Harwood-Academic Publishers
Medarbetare
Palladino, Paolo / Palladino, P.
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
238 x 160 x 17 mm
Vikt
504 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
vii, 201 p. ;
ISSN
1024-8048
ISBN
9783718659074

Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture

The Making of Science Careers in North America, 1885-1985

Inbunden,  Engelska, 1996-08-01
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This study is facilitated by following economic entomologists' and ecologists' changing ideas about different pest control strategies, chiefly 'chemical', 'biological', and 'integrated' control. The author then follows the efforts of one specific group of entomologists, at the University of California, over three generations from their advocacy of 'biological' controls in the 1930s and 40s, through their shifting attention to the development of an 'integrated pest management' in the context of 'big biology' during the 1970s.
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