Pesticides in Southeast Asia: Environmental, Biomedical, and Economic Uses and Effects
By Unknown Author.
Description
This much-needed collection of research by international and multidisciplinary experts explores the economic, environmental, and health benefits, as well as harmful consequences, of pesticide use in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.Population growth, the expansion of world trade, increased demands for quantity and quality of agricultural and other commodities, and the need to control vector-borne diseases over the past sixty years have given rise to a proliferation of synthetic chemical pesticides in both developed and developing nations. Since the publication of Rachel Carson&rsquo...
ISBN(s)
9749511204, 9789749511206
