Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture - The Making of Science Careers in North America, 1885-1985 (Hardcover)

This volume examines the expanded governmental funding of scientific research and technological development for the institutional and intellectual organization of life sciences in the 20th century. It studies the history of natural historical investigations of insects in the light of the growing institutional organization of the agricultural sciences in the United States and Canada, exploring how this context has shaped the emergence of economic entomology and ecology - two quite different but related disciplines. 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" strategy in the 1950s to their final establishment of "integrated pest management" in the context of "big biology" during the 1970s.

General

Imprint:	Harwood-Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Paolo Palladino
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-3-7186-5907-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Radio & television industry
LSN:	3-7186-5907-7
Barcode:	9783718659074

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