1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910700836003321

Autore

Koleski Katherine

Titolo

Backgrounder [[electronic resource] ] : China in Latin America / / by Katherine Koleski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, , [2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (18 pages) : color illustrations, color map

Soggetti

Investments, Chinese - Latin America

China Foreign relations Latin America

Latin America Foreign relations China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 27, 2011."

Title from title screen (viewed on June 29, 2012).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910446318703321

Titolo

Areawide pest management : theory and implementation / / edited by Opender Koul, Gerrit Cuperus and Norman Elliott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Pub., c2008

ISBN

1-281-24443-0

9786611244439

1-84593-373-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (614 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KoulOpender

CuperusGerrit W

ElliottNorman

Disciplina

632/.9

Soggetti

Pests - Integrated control

Pests - Control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Preface; 1. General Introduction to Areawide Pest Management; 2. History and Ecological Basis for Areawide Pest Management; 3. Establishing Inter-agency, Multidisciplinary Areawide Pest Management Programmes; 4. Dispersal and Migration of Insects and Their Importance in Pest Management; 5. A Landscape Perspective in Managing Vegetation for Beneficial Plant-Pest-Natural Enemy Interactions: a Foundation for Areawide Pest Management; 6. Social and Economic Aspects of Areawide Pest Management; 7. Environmental Monitoring in Areawide Pest Management

8. The Role of Databases in Areawide Pest Management9. Codling Moth Areawide Integrated Pest Management; 10. Corn Rootworm Areawide Pest Management in the Midwestern USA; 11. Grape Areawide Pest Management in Italy; 12. Stored-grain Insect Areawide Integrated Pest Management; 13. Aphid Alert: How it Came to be, What it Achieved and Why it Proved Unsustainable; 14. Areawide Suppression of Fire Ants; 15. Salt Cedar Areawide Pest Management in the Western USA; Colour Plates; 16. The Hawaii Fruit Fly Areawide Pest Management Programme



17. Areawide Pest Management for Non-rice Food Crops in South-east Asia18. Areawide Rice Insect Pest Management: a Perspective of Experiences in Asia; 19. Areawide Pest Management of Cereal Aphids in Dryland Wheat Systems of the Great Plains, USA; 20. Boll Weevil Eradication: an Areawide Pest Management Effort; 21. Current Approaches to Areawide Integrated Pest Management: Obstacles and Future Directions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Pest management has long been a problem for farmers worldwide and new techniques are continually being developed to reduce the adverse effects of pest populations. With a discussion of areawide pest management, this book explores the theoretical development and implementation of techniques from a worldwide perspective.