Titlebook: An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control; J. EILENBERG,H.M.T. HOKKANEN Book 2006 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 200

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SOCIOECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL,f opportunities for economic and societal analysis. While some applications are attractive even to big business (e.g., biopesticides based on .), and can be considered from a strictly economic point of view as any other saleable product, many others have no commercial value at all, but can provide h

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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL IN ORGANIC PRODUCTION: FIRST CHOICE OR LAST OPTION ?, taken for granted that all methods of biological control are acceptable or even a first choice in organic farming. In this chapter, we explore the attitude of organic farming towards methods of biological control. Although organic farming has become popular during the last decade, organic farms are

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FOOD CONSUMPTION, RISK PERCEPTION AND ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES,lly modified to be resistant to specific predators) available for the management of pests. According to Kogan (1998), within the integrated pest management framework, the selection and use of pest control tactics should take into account the interest of and impact on producers, society and the envir

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THE SOIL AS A RESERVOIR FOR ANTAGONISTS TO PLANT DISEASES,nvironment harbouring plant pathogenic nematodes, bacteria and fungi. The most common attitude is to try to eliminate the plant pathogenic organisms by biocidal treatments such as methyl bromide fumigation, which are dangerous for man and the environment. Beside this pathogen eradication strategy, a

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THE SOIL AS A RESERVOIR FOR NATURAL ENEMIES OF PEST INSECTS AND MITES WITH EMPHASIS ON FUNGI AND NEled organisms to large burrowing animals. As in above ground environments, there are well-defined food chains and competition for survival in the soil environment (Foth & Turk, 1990). Biotic and abiotic interactions in soil ecosystems may enhance or reduce populations of pest arthropods (defined her