Insects, Experts, and the Insecticide Crisis: The Quest for New Pest Management Strategies - Couverture souple
Synopsis
I • The Insecticide Crisis.- 1 A New Technology.- The Introduction of Insecticides.- The Discovery of DDT.- Impact of the New Insecticides.- Insect Control and the Apple Industry.- Concluding Remarks.- Reference Notes.- 2 Crisis.- Hazards to Humans and Other Species.- Resistance.- The Destruction of Natural Enemies.- Cotton: The Crisis in Microcosm.- The Insecticide Crisis in the Policy Arena.- Reference Notes.- II • A Search for Alternatives.- 3 Strategies I: Integrated Pest Management.- Huffaker and the Huffaker Project.- The Intellectual Traditions.- Classical Biological Control.- Ecologists Armed with Chemicals.- Launching the Huffaker Project.- The Significance of the Huffaker Project.- Reference Notes.- 4 Strategies II: Total Population Management.- An Alternative Research Strategy.- Edward Fred Knipling.- Ushering in the New Insecticides.- Sterile Males: A Fruitful Innovation.- Changing Research Directions.- Scientific Prelude to the Pilot Boll Weevil Eradication Experiment.- The Pilot Boll Weevil Eradication Experiment.- The Novelty of Total Population Management.- Reference Notes.- 5 Traumas.- The Pilot Boll Weevil Eradication Experiment.- Design.- Results.- The Trial Boll Weevil Eradication Program.- The Huffaker Project.- Concluding Remarks.- Appendix: Technical Guidance Committee, Pilot Boll Weevil Eradication Experiment.- Reference Notes.- III • Entomology in its Cultural Context.- 6 A Conceptual Framework.- Entomology is Both Science and Technology.- The Confounding of Scientific and Technological Expertise in Entomology.- Knowledge in Entomology.- Paradigms Refined.- Summary Remarks.- Reference Notes.- 7 The Philosophical Foundations.- Presuppositions.- Entomological Thought and General Intellectual Trends.- Naturalism and Humanism in Entomology.- Concepts.- Pest.- Control and Economic Threshold.- Environmental Quality.- Ecosystem.- Integrated Control.- Concluding Remarks.- Reference Notes.- 8 Revolutionary Farmers.- Agricultural Revolution: The Perceptions and Causes.- Attitudes toward Labor.- Sociopolitical Origins of Agricultural Science and Technology.- Agricultural Revolution: The Course of Events.- 1861-1914.- 1914-1954.- 1954-Present.- Concluding Remarks.- Reference Notes.- 9 Entomologists and the Revolution.- Entomology and Professionalism.- Capturing the Agricultural Market.- Entomology as an Academic Discipline.- Entomologists and the Agricultural Revolution.- The Shaping of Entomological Expertise.- Economic Entomologists and Basic Science.- Entomologists and the Chemical Industry.- Concluding Remarks.- Reference Notes.- 10 Entomology and Agricultural Production.- Insect Control and Agricultural Production.- Compatibility of Technology and Production.- Chemical Control.- Total Population Management.- Integrated Pest Management.- Concluding Remarks.- Reference Notes.
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