Ecologically Based Integrated Pest Management (In 2 Volumes)

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The availability of modern tools and transgenic crop protection technology has opened new vistas in the vast field of pest management. All these issues form the focus of the book, where they have been discussed by eminent scientists who are authority in their respective fields. The book describes the science and art of integrated pest management. It contains 48 chapters grouped into six sections in two parts which include topics ranging from: Basic concepts; Impact on food security; Biorational strategies; Breeding for resistance; IPM in crops fruits vegetables; Future strategies and policy issues; IPR related issues.

It also gives detailed information on emerging strategies and problems such as the role of biotechnology and the implications of IPR issues. The roles of IPM in sustaining food productivity contribution of IPM in meeting economic environmental and social costs have been elaborated. The role of diagnostic tools weather forecasting transgenic plants biological control and new chemicals in future IPM programmes and strategies to meet the challenges of pest adaptation have been highlighted. The need for improved information transfer implementation and application of IPM has been discussed. Finally it is essential to know the status of IPM its future challenges and constraints which have been extensively elaborated in the last chapter of this book. The book intends to fill the gap by providing the critical analysis of different management strategies having bearing on agriculture sustainability and environmental protection. The compilation of this book is unique in the sense that it does not deal with the conventional way of discussing pest management with respect to particular crops or the regions. It emphasizes on the other hand an overview of the management strategies with critical evaluation of each in the larger context of ecologically based pest management.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Uma Shankar

Dr. Uma Shankar is a faculty in the department of Political science, Zakir Husian College, University of Delhi. He has been teaching International relations and Comparative Politics in this college for over thirteen years. He graduated from Patna University and after obtaining his Masters degree in Politics from School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he completed his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. Dr. Uma Shankar has been involved in Post-Graduate teaching programmes and research. The present book is the end product of almost twenty years of research though it has been marked with breaks in between. His research interests in Afghanistan were revived after the shocking of September 11, 2001, which once again brought Afghanistan on the center stage of the international politics. He has contributed research papers and participated in conferences and seminars on Afghanistan. He has published many research papers and articles ion International relations and foreign policy in reputed journals and periodicals. Strategic studies and intra-state conflicts are his areas of special interest. Dr. Uma Shankar is a severe critic of humanitarian interventions and installation if democracy in the Third World countries at the behest of foreign powers. However, he is in favour of a very limited role of the international community in providing internal security and state building in countries torn by civil wars and disintegrated states like Afghanistan. He argues that the strategy of International assistance should be in a manner that helps in rebuilding their state and serve the cause of larger peace, security and development.