Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture: The Making of Science Careers in North America, 1885-1985Routledge, 2013 M05 13 - 208 pages 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. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 Entomology in the United States | 21 |
Chapter 2 Entomology in Canada | 47 |
Chapter 3 Biological Control in the United States and Canada | 75 |
Chapter 4 Biological Control Integrated Control and Ecological Theory | 103 |
Chapter 5 Environmentalism and Entomological Research 19601975 | 127 |
Chapter 6 Ecological Modeling and Integrated Pest Management | 153 |
Conclusion | 179 |
Index | 197 |
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