Urban pest management : an environmental perspective /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Insect pests > Control > Environmental aspects.; Urban pests > Control > Environmental aspects.; Laws and Regulations.; Integrated Pest Management.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Pesticides and Drugs; Chemistry and Formulation, (New March 2000); Repellents and Attractants.; Wood Properties, Damage and Preservation.; Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Culicidae.; Insects.; Isoptera.; Baits.; Chemical control.; Disease vectors.; Formulations.; Innovation adoption.; Insect growth regulators.; Insect pests.; Integrated control.; Integrated pest management.; Natural products.; Pest control.; Pesticides.; Pheromones.; Regulations.; Urban environment.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.