1st Edition
Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture The Making of Science Careers in North America, 1885-1985
By Paolo Palladino
Copyright 1996
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Entomology in the United States; Chapter 2 Entomology in Canada; Chapter 3 Biological Control in the United States and Canada; Chapter 4 Biological Control, Integrated Control, and Ecological Theory; Chapter 5 Environmentalism and Entomological Research, 1960–1975; Chapter 6 Ecological Modeling and Integrated Pest Management; Conclusion; Index;
Biography
Paolo Palladino is a Wellcome Lecturer in History of Medicine in the History Department at Lancaster University, UK.,
University of Lancaster, UK
