Includes bibliographical references and index.

General introduction to areawide pest management / Robert M. Faust -- History and ecological basis for areawide pest management / Norman C. Elliott, David W. Onsted and Michael J. Brewer -- Establishing inter-agency, multidisciplinary areawide pest management programmes / Robert M. Nowierski and Hendrik J. Meyer -- Dispersal and migration of insects and their importance in pest management / David N. Byrne -- A landscape perspective in managing vegetation for beneficial plant-pest-natural enemy interactions : a foundation for areawide pest management / Michael J. Brewer, Takuji Noma and Norman C. Elliott -- Social and economic aspects of areawide pest management / Sean P. Keenan and Paul A. Burgener -- Environmental monitoring in areawide pest management / J.D. Carlson and Albert Sutherland -- The role of databases in areawide pest management / Vasile Catana, Norman Elliott, Kris Giles, Mustafa Mirik, David Porter, Gary Hein, Frank Peairs and Jerry Michels -- Codling moth areawide integrated pest management / A.L. Knight -- Corn rootworm areawide pest management in the Midwestern USA / Laurence D. Chandler, James R. Coppedge, C. Richard Edwards, Jon J. Tollefson, Gerald R. Wilde and Robert M. Faust -- Grape areawide pest management in Italy / Claudio Ioratti, Andrea Lucchi and Bruno Bagnoli -- Stored-grain insect areawide integrated pest management / David W. Hagstrum, Paul W. Flinn, Carl R. Reed and Thomas W. Phillips -- Aphid alert : how it came to be, what it achieved and why it proved unsustainable / Edward B. Radcliffe, David W. Ragsdale, Robert A. Suranyi, Christina D. DiFonzo and Erin E. Hladilek -- Areawide suppression of fire ants / M.D. Aubuchon and K. Vander Meer -- Salt Cedar areawide pest management in the western USA / Raymond I. Carruthers, C. Jack DeLoach, John C. Herr, Gerald L. Anderson and Allen E. Knutson -- The Hawaii fruit fly areawide pest management programme / Roger I. Vargas, Ronald F.L. Mau, Eric B. Jang, Robert M. Faust and Lyle Wong -- Areawide pest management for non-rice food crops in South-east Asia / M.D. Hammig, B.M. Shepard, G.R. Carner, R. Dilts and A. Rauf -- Areawide rice insect pest management : a perspective of experiences in Asia / James A. Litsinger -- Areawide pest management of cereal aphids in dryland wheat systems of the Great Plains, USA / Kristopher Giles, Gary Hein and Frank Peairs -- Boll weevil eradication : an areawide pest management effort / Charles T. Allen -- Current approaches to areawide integrated pest management : obstacles and future directions / Opender Koul and Gerrit W. Cuperus.

This book aims (1) to lay out the historical underpinnings of the areawide pest (including weeds, plant and stored grain insect pests) management (AWPM) and to highlight current activity in the field; (2) to delve into concepts that have direct impact on the successful implementation of AWPM, which include: (i) biological and ecological concepts important for understanding the dynamics of populations in spatially heterogeneous environments; (ii) the critical role of inter-agency and multidisciplinary interactions in the development and implementation of AWPM programmes, which are often complex inter-agency and intergovernmental endeavours; (iii) the roles of modelling, meteorology and databases in AWPM programmes which, by their nature, are information intensive; and (iv) the importance of economic and sociological evaluation in successful AWPM implementation; and (3) to compile recent case examples of pest management programmes that have used the AWPM approach. A survey in presented on a wide variety of programmes developed for protecting agricultural and natural resource systems and which use a wide range of pest management tactics.