Entomology, ecology and agriculture : the making of scientific careers in North America, 1885-1985

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Entomology, ecology and agriculture : the making of scientific careers in North America, 1885-1985

Paolo Palladino

(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige, v. 3)

Harwood Academic, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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