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Entomology and Agricultural Production

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Insects, Experts, and the Insecticide Crisis

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Abstract

Integrated pest management (IPM) and total population management (TPM) resulted from the convergence of a complex array of factors. Developments in each school of thought were prompted by a series of crises associated with insecticides (Chapter 2), were guided by the changing capital structure of agriculture (Chapter 8), and were aimed at maintaining for entomologists a degree of monopoly power over the expertise concerning insects and their control (Chapter 9). Yet the end products of these intellectual endeavors were markedly different. Why?

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Perkins, J.H. (1982). Entomology and Agricultural Production. In: Insects, Experts, and the Insecticide Crisis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3998-4_10

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