The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I Ecological Science and Policy as Applied to Pests and Pesticides: Ecological science; Ecologically related management tools; The ecology of pests. Part II Agriculture and Pesticides: The agricultural revolution and farm policy; The history of the control of pests. Part III The Ecology Impacts of Pesticides: The ecological impacts of pesticide use; The legacy of past pesticide use: one example. Part IV The Legal Response to Pesticides: The evolution of domestic law: FIFRA; Other domestic laws that address the ecological impacts of pesticides; The special case of genetically modified crops; The failure of US law to address the ecological considerations of pesticide use; The conflict between pesticide law and wildlife protection law; International perspectives on pesticide law and ecology; Ecologically based pest management; Legal and policy proposals to achieve ecologically based pest management; Index.