Urban Pest Control

Author : Partho Dhang
Publisher : CABI
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781800622920

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Urban Pest Management by Partho Dhang Pdf

The management and control of pests in the urban environment in the 21st Century faces many challenges. Pest populations adapt to changing conditions brought about by environmental changes caused by global warming, human population growth, and increased pollution. Urban pests are able to expand their ranges, densities, and habitats, sometimes causing large-scale damage and disease. This book provides collective insights from academic and industry experts on perspectives concerning urban pest management and regulatory innovations arising from the rapid onset of recent environmental challenges. Chapter topics address pest biology, advances in urban pest management practices, emerging urban pest control developments, new technologies, and regulations. The book describes new methods of pest control, their impacts on human health and the environment, and strategies for integrated management limiting the use of chemicals. It provides a practical resource for researchers and policy makers in pest management, urban health, medical entomology and environmental science.

Author : Gary W. Bennett,John M. Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : MINN:31951000333251Y

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Advances in Urban Pest Management by Gary W. Bennett,John M. Owens Pdf

Abstract: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices and strategies for pesticide applicators working in urban or heavily populated areas are presented in this reference book. Arthropod, weed, vertebrate, household and public health pest and wood destroying organism controls are covered. Comprehensive bibliographies by topic are cited at the end of each chapter.

Author : Ion Staunton,Phillip Hadlington,John Gerozisis
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781742247274

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Urban Pest Management in Australia by Ion Staunton,Phillip Hadlington,John Gerozisis Pdf

For 23 years and through four editions, Urban Pest Management in Australia has been the major reference work for Australian pest control operators. This fifth edition has been extensively revised to support the constantly evolving pest management industry. It features an accessible new format, fully updated chapters, additional colour plates and extra content, including a new section on putting pest control into practice. Ion Staunton draws on his 50 years of industry knowledge to bring Gerozisis and Hadlington’s pest management ‘bible’ to a new generation of technicians.

Author : Partho Dhang
Publisher : CABI
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786395146

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Urban Pest Control by Partho Dhang Pdf

This guide brings together the varied and multiple skills and activities required of pest control practitioners, including biology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, sales, logistics, legal and accounting, presented with a primary emphasis on pest organisms at its core. This book provides information and tips on all of these aspects and: explores the business of controlling pests (including trends in the industry, pest control tools, and sustainable pest control); covers biological information on each pest in addition to information on control and management, monitoring and follow-up; focusses particularly on globally significant pests with internationally-applicable use and guidance; and provides practical and hands-on experience, drawing on original case studies. This is a key resource for pest control practitioners, as well as in-house staff of companies or buildings involved in household or urban pest control. It is also a valuable reference for researchers, and sanitation and building managers.

Author : Partho Dhang
Publisher : CABI
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780642758

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Urban Insect Pests by Partho Dhang Pdf

A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies that look beyond products. From an environmental and health perspective, it is not always practical to spray chemicals indoors or in urban settings, so this work discusses sustainable control and best practice methods for managing insects that are vectors of disease, nuisance pests and the cause of structural damage.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Urban Pest Management
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:B4982898

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Urban Pest Management by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Urban Pest Management Pdf

Author : Xavier Bonnefoy,Helge Kampen,Kevin Sweeney
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289071888

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Public Health Significance of Urban Pests by Xavier Bonnefoy,Helge Kampen,Kevin Sweeney Pdf

The second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century witnessed important changes in ecology, climate and human behaviour that favoured the development of urban pests. Most alarmingly, urban planners now face the dramatic expansion of urban sprawl, in which city suburbs are growing into the natural habitats of ticks, rodents and other pests. Also, many city managers now erroneously assume that pest-borne diseases are relics of the past. All these changes make timely a new analysis of the direct and indirect effects of present-day urban pests on health. Such an analysis should lead to the development of strategies to manage them and reduce the risk of exposure. To this end, WHO invited international experts in various fields - pests, pest-related diseases and pest management - to provide evidence on which to base policies. These experts identified the public health risk posed by various pests and appropriate measures to prevent and control them. This book presents their conclusions and formulates policy options for all levels of decision-making to manage pests and pest-related diseases in the future. [Ed.]

Author : Dawn Day Biehler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295804866

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Pests in the City by Dawn Day Biehler Pdf

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space. Community activists and social reformers strived to control pests in cities such as Washington, DC, Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and Milwaukee, but such efforts fell short when authorities blamed families and neighborhood culture for infestations rather than attacking racial segregation or urban disinvestment. Pest-control campaigns tended to target public or private spaces, but pests and pesticides moved readily across the porous boundaries between homes and neighborhoods. This story of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats reveals that such creatures thrived on lax code enforcement and the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color. As Biehler shows, urban pests have remained a persistent problem at the intersection of public health, politics, and environmental justice, even amid promises of modernity and sustainability in American cities. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9PFxLY7K4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw

Author : Partho Dhang,Philip Koehler,Roberto Pereira,Daniel D. Dye II
Publisher : CABI
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781800620155

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Key Questions in Urban Pest Management by Partho Dhang,Philip Koehler,Roberto Pereira,Daniel D. Dye II Pdf

Urban pests are common all over the world. These include cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, ticks, fleas, ants, termites, rodents and others. These pests thrive in human structures, where there is food, warmth and places to hide. Urban pests are one of the leading causes of illnesses in humans due to allergies, bites, food contamination and phobias. They can also cause significant damage to property and structures. Knowledge and training in this field is vital for professional and trainee pest managers. This book is specifically intended to provide an aid to such candidates. The book contains 500 multiple-choice questions (and answers) grouped into major topic areas.

Author : John Gerozisis,Phillip W. Hadlington
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924076492275

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Urban Pest Control in Australia by John Gerozisis,Phillip W. Hadlington Pdf

Mice, rats, cockroaches, spiders, termites, flies, fleas, beetles and moths - in plague proportions and without adequate control would spread disease, destroy crops, and overwhelm civilisation. In the continuing battle, this manual and its predecessors have served as a standard reference and consulted by professional pest control operators throughout Australia for over 25 years. Now again extensively expanded and updated, this third edition of Urban Pest Control in Australia, in line with modern research trends, has adopted an integrated approach to the subject acknowledging that there are a wide variety of solutions to pest control problems, including the non-chemical one. While information on chemicals and pesticide applications has been brought right up-to-date, the authors have also stressed the environmental factors and paid particular attention to safety aspects. Over 200 black and white drawings and photographs have been included together with 80 photographs in full colour. Regarded as the authorative text in Australia, no pest control operator should be without a copy.

Author : Partho Dhang
Publisher : Cabi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Insect pests
ISBN : 1786395150

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Urban Pest Control by Partho Dhang Pdf

This guide brings together the varied and multiple skills and activities required of pest control practitioners, including biology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, sales, logistics, legal and accounting, presented with a primary emphasis on pest organisms at its core. This book provides information and tips on all of these aspects and explores the business of controlling pests (including trends in the industry, pest control tools, and sustainable pest control); covers biological information on each pest in addition to information on control and management, monitoring and follow-up; focuses particularly on globally significant pests with internationally-applicable use and guidance; and provides practical and hands-on experience, drawing on original case studies. This is a key resource for pest control practitioners, as well as in-house staff of companies or buildings involved in household or urban pest control. It is also a valuable reference for researchers, and sanitation and building managers.

Author : William Robinson
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000142808

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Urban Entomology by William Robinson Pdf

This is a comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of entomology in the human environment. There is particular emphasis on control and biology of pests. The book provides students of entomology with a clear theoretical and practical foundation in household and structural insect pests.;This book should be of interest to senior undergraduates and masters students in entomology; pest control workers; researchers in the pesticide industry.

Author : John H. Klotz
Publisher : UCANR Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ants
ISBN : 9781601076649

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Urban Pest Management of Ants in California by John H. Klotz Pdf

Author : John Gerozisis,Phillip W. Hadlington,Ion Staunton
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0868408948

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Urban Pest Management in Australia by John Gerozisis,Phillip W. Hadlington,Ion Staunton Pdf

"The first comprehensive layperson's guide to explain the latest termite detection and treatment techniques. In plain English the book tells homeowners what to look out for and how wood-eating pests are best prevented or treated. Importantly, it also explains exactly when you need a technician, what you can expect from them and how to understand and evaluate their quote or proposal."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Francis Eugene Wood
Publisher : Smashbooks
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Pesticides
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Urban Integrated Pest Management by Francis Eugene Wood Pdf