Economics of Integrated Pest Management of Insects

David W Onstad (Edited By) David Onstad received his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1985. He was a professor at the University of Illinois until 2011 when he joined DuPont Pioneer. His expertise includes economic entomology, systems analysis, ecology, and pest management. The second edition of his book on insect resistance management was published in 2014.Philip Crain (Edited By) Philip Crain received his Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Kentucky studying novel mosquito control strategies. After a post-doctoral research position at Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität in Münster, Germany, he joined the insect resistance management research team at DuPont Pioneer. Philip has a strong ecological background, and promotes the use of computer models to understand complex interactions. Population genetics and population dynamics models should include economic analysis if the goal is control of pests or disease.

• 1: Major Economic Issues in Integrated Pest Management 2: Economic Evaluation of Integrated Mosquito Control in Urban Areas 3: What Can We Learn from More Recent (and More ‘Rigorous’) Economic Impact Assessments of Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field Schools (IPM-FFS)? 4: Economic Value of Arthropod Biological Control 5: Economics of Host-Plant Resistance 6: Economic Principles and Concepts in Area-Wide Genetic Pest Management 7: Economic Thresholds and Sampling in Integrated Pest Management 8: Economic Impacts of Integrated Pest Management Practices in Developing Countries 9: The Roles of Soft Technologies and Cooperative Extension in Solving Wicked Integrated Pest Management Problems 10: Perseverance Pays Off: Finishing the Integrated Pest Management Marathon with Economics