The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management

Although concerns over the ecological impacts of pesticides gave rise to the environmental movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, since that time, pesticide use and its effects have been largely ignored by the law and by legal scholars. This book addresses this omission by providing a unique and serious treatment of the significance of pesticide issues in environmental law and takes an ecological perspective on the legal issues. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the book is of interest to academics, lawyers, scientists and environmental and agricultural professionals.