This book aims to organize the published environmental impact information on pesticides into a usable form to help growers and other integrated pest management practitioners make more environmentally sound pesticide choices. This book deals with all kinds of risks, such as risk to aquifers and aquatic organisms such as fish; risk to pollinators; risk to human health; risk to soil microflora and fauna; and risk to terrestrial organisms such as arthropods and wildlife, associated with the use of individual pesticides and their mixtures, their method of estimation and risk assessment using various tools. Remediation and management details are duly elaborated. The book also includes regulatory perspectives and covers various aspects of remediation for reducing the risk associated with pesticides.

• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Impact and Estimation of Pesticides
  • 1 Pesticides
  • 2 Impact of Pesticides on the Environment
• Part II: Pesticide Risk and Assessment
  • 3 Toxicity of Pesticides Based on their Mode of Action
  • 4 Diagnostic Tools for Pesticide Detection
  • 5 Toxicity of Pesticides in Mixtures with the Same Mode of Action
  • 6 Toxicity of Pesticides in Mixtures with Different Modes of Action
  • 7 Techniques for Pesticide Risk Assessment
  • 8 Co-Relation of Pesticide Risk and Body Characteristics
  • 9 Co-Relation of Toxicity and Classification of Pesticides
• Part III: Remediation to Reduce Pesticide Risk
  • 10 Pesticide Risk – Case Studies
  • 11 Alternatives for Reducing Pesticide Risk
  • 12 Awareness for Reducing Pesticide Risk
  • 13 Regulation of Pesticides and Associated Risks
• Index
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