Urban pest management : an environmental perspective /

This book, containing 15 chapters, aims to highlight approaches to urban pest (including mosquitoes and termites) prevention and control by the judicious use of pesticides. It discusses key strategies for minimizing pesticide use without compromising quality of pest control; foremost among these are...

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Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
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245 0 0 |a Urban pest management :  |b an environmental perspective /  |c edited by Partho Dhang, Independent Consultant, Manila, Philippines. 
264 # 1 |a Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :  |b CABI,  |c 2011. 
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505 0 # |a Insecticides as Urban Pollutants / Partho Dhang -- Emerging Urban Pests and Vector-borne Diseases in Brazil / Ana Eugênia de Carvalho Campos -- Mosquitoes : a Consequential Pest / Partho Dhang and Robert Kunst -- Environmentally Sound Bed Bug Management Solutions / Changlu Wang and Richard Cooper -- Digital Governance in Urban Entomology : an Innovative Approach / Naresh Duggal -- Community Integrated Pest Management with Special Reference to School Environments / Faith M. Oi -- Providing Integrated Pest Management to Multi-dwelling Low-income Housing / Sam Bryks -- Liquid Termiticides : their Role in Subterranean Termite Management / Xing Ping Hu -- Sustainable Termite Management Using an Integrated Pest Management Approach / Brian Forschler -- A Stand-alone Termite Management Technology in Australia / Steven Broadbent -- Encapsulation : an Effective Environmentally Friendly Technology for Delivery of Insecticides and Repellents / Janusz Swietoslawski, Pawel Swietoslawski, David Liszka and Aleksandra Gliniewicz -- Pheromones : a Resourceful Tool in Modern Urban Pest Management / Alain VanRyckeghem -- Insect Baits and Baiting : Novel Technology for Managing Urban Pests with Less Insecticide / Partho Dhang -- Present and Future Approaches to Urban Pest Management : a Global Pesticide Regulatory Perspective / Kevin Sweeney -- Effective Regulation in the Practice of Structural Pest Management / Steven Dwinell. 
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520 3 # |a This book, containing 15 chapters, aims to highlight approaches to urban pest (including mosquitoes and termites) prevention and control by the judicious use of pesticides. It discusses key strategies for minimizing pesticide use without compromising quality of pest control; foremost among these are strict adherence to the principles of integrated pest management, the adoption of novel technologies (such as use of growth regulators, baits, pheromones, natural products and encapsulated formulations) and enacting effective regulations. 
530 # # |a Also available in print format. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed August 7, 2013). 
650 # 0 |a Insect pests  |x Control  |x Environmental aspects. 
650 # 0 |a Urban pests  |x Control  |x Environmental aspects. 
650 # 4 |a Laws and Regulations. 
650 # 4 |a Integrated Pest Management. 
650 # 4 |a Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Pesticides and Drugs; Chemistry and Formulation, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Repellents and Attractants. 
650 # 4 |a Wood Properties, Damage and Preservation. 
650 # 4 |a Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000) 
650 # 7 |a Culicidae.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Insects.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Isoptera.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Baits.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Chemical control.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Disease vectors.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Formulations.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Innovation adoption.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Insect growth regulators.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Insect pests.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Integrated control.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Integrated pest management.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Natural products.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Pest control.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Pesticides.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Pheromones.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Regulations.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Urban environment.  |2 cabt 
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700 1 # |a Dhang, Partho,  |e editor of compilation. 
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