Pest and Disease Management Handbook

Pest and Disease Management Handbook updates the 3rd editionof the Pest and Disease Control Handbook (1989). Thestructure of this important new book differs in several respects, acknowledging the advances that have been made in integrated cropmanagement and the trends towards the more rational use ofpesticides.

Fully revised and up-to-date, the book commences with a newintroductory chapter covering the principles of pest and diseasemanagement. Following chapters, each written by acknowledgedexperts in the field, cover a group of major temperate northernhemisphere crops. As well as comprehensive details of pest anddisease management strategies, each chapter also includes aclassification scheme for the cited pests and diseases.

This important publication is a vital tool for all thoseinvolved in the crop protection / agrochemical industry includingbusiness managers, entomologists, agricultural scientists, plantpathologists and those studying and teaching BASIS courses. As animportant reference guide for undergraduate and postgraduatestudents studying agricultural sciences, applied entomology andcrop protection, copies of the book should be available on theshelves of all research establishments and universities where thesesubjects are studied and taught.

Pest and Disease Management Handbook is published for theBritish Crop Protection Council (BCPC) by Blackwell Science. BCPCis a registered charity having the principal objective of promotingthe development, use and understanding of effective and sustainablecrop protection practice.

Dr David V Alford, based in Cambridge, UK, is a member of theBCPC board, with many years' experience working as a governmententomologist.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0632055030
• ISBN13: 9780632055036
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.5"