The Pesticide Question Environment, Economics, and Ethics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pimentel, David (Editor), Lehman, Hugh (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1993.
• Subjects: Environment.; Life sciences.; Ecology.; Ecotoxicology.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Life Sciences, general.

Pesticides have contributed impressively to our present-day agricultural productivity, but at the same time they are at the center of serious concerns about safety, health, and the environment. Increasingly, the public wonders whether the benefits of pesticides - `the perfect red apple' - outwe...