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Chemistry, Society and Environment
There have been several attempts to write the history of Britain's chemical industry as a whole, and countless others concentrating on individual companies. Some have looked at the technical aspects of the industry, whilst others have addressed economic issues. Few have, however, attempted to analyse the effects of the chemical industry on society in general. The current environmental crisis can only be fully understood in the light of its history. This is the first such book to look critically at the whole development of industrial chemistry in the UK in the context of its effects on the environment. No one from industry, government or academia can afford to be unaware of the historical roo...
Resistance’ 91: Achievements and Developments in Combating Pesticide Resistance
The development of pesticide resistance in arthropod pests, plant pathogens and weeds can be viewed and studied from two contrasting perspectives. At a fundamental level, resistance provides an almost ideal example of adaptation to withstand severe environmental stress. Population geneticists, biochemists and, most recently, molecular biologists have cast considerable light on the nature of this adaptation in diverse taxonomic groups, and on factors determining its selection and spread within and between populations. Unlike most evolutionary phenomena, however, resistance is also of immediate practical and economic significance. Not only has the number of resistant species continued to incre...
Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Insect Control II
This book is the most up-to-date account of the chemistry of insect control available and covers advances made in the subject since the previous edition was published in 1985. It presents an authoritative view of scientific endeavour, vital to the preservation of the world's food supplies, and looks at new approaches to the problem of insect resistance, the emergence of new insect types, and the sharpening in specificity of action within the more familiar groups. It also looks at innovative attempts to deliver insecticidal gene products to pests, through genetic engineering. Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Insect Control II contains contributions from 18 authors, all experts in their particular fields, and is divided into four major themes covering future trends in insecticides, invention and optimisation of insecticides, the isolation and synthesis of insecticidal natural products, and biorational approaches to insecticides.
