TY - BOOK AU - Bailey,Alastair ED - Ebooks Corporation. TI - Biopesticides: Pest Management and Regulation SN - 9781845935597 print U1 - 632.96 PY - 2010/// CY - Wallingford PB - CABI, KW - CONTROL BIOLOGICO DE PLAGAS KW - PLAGAS KW - PLAGAS AGRICOLAS N1 - Libro electronico adquirido a perpetuidad con la editorial CABI; Contenido: 1. Introduction; 2. Pests of Crops; 3. Pest Management with Biopesticides; 4. The Economics of Making the Switch in Technologies; 5. The Regulation of Biopesticides: an International Analysis; 6. Policy Networks, Change and Innovation; 7. Retail Governance; 8. Conclusions; Index N2 - Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. Chemical pesticide methods are becoming less readily available due to increasing resistance problems and the prohibition of some substances. This book addresses the challenges of insufficient information and imperfectly understood regulatory processes in using biopesticides. It takes an interdisciplinary approach providing internationally comparative analyses on the registration of biopesticides and debates future biopesticide practices UR - https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1079/9781845935597.0000 ER -