1 Man Pests and the Evolution of Ipm: an Introduction. - 2 Human-Managed Environments as Systems within the Biosphere. - The Biosphere. - Communities and Ecosystems. - Human-Managed Ecosystems. - 3 What is a Pest?. - Economic Loss is Primarily a Function of Population Density. - Placing Pests on the Food Chain. - Kinds of Pests 45 Entomophobia. - 4 A History of Pest Control. - Early Pest ControlFrom Prehistoric Times to the Renaissance. - The Renaissance and the Agricultural Revolution. - The Early Twentieth Century. - After World War IIThe Revolutionizing of Pest Control by DDT and Other Synthetic Organic Pesticides. - The Development of Integrated Pest Management. - 5 The Cost of Pest Control: Economic Social and Environmental. - The Private Economics of Pest Management. - Conflicts of Interest in Ecosystem Management. - The Societal Implications of Pest Management Decisions. - Environmental Quality 98 Hazard to Health. - 6 The Philosophy of Integrated Pest Management: The Strategy of the Future. - A Guide for Setting Up an Integrated Pest Management Program. - 7 Practical Procedures: Ipm Monitoring Decision-Making and the Tools and Techniques of the Integrated Pest Manager. - Monitoring and Sampling; Data Collection: Reading the Pulse of the Ecosystem. - Control Action Levels and Other Decision-Making Guides. - Integrated Pest Management Options. - 8 Case Histories in Integrated Pest Management. - Alfalfa in California. - Integrated Pest Management in Apples in Nova Scotia. - Integrated Pest Management in North Carolina Flue-Cured Tobacco. - Integrated Pest Management in Cotton in the San Joaquin Valley of California. - Integrated Pest Management of Mosquitoes in a California Salt Marsh. - Integrated Pest Management of Urban Street Tree Pests. - Integrated Pest Management in Citrus inthe San Joaquin Valley of California. - Integrated Pest Management in Pears. - 9 The Integrated Pest Management Specialist. - 10 The Future of Integrated Pest Management. Language: English