Do benefits accrue to 'pest control' or 'pesticides?': A comment on Cooper and Dobson

Crop Protection

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 965-967

  Edwards Jones, Gareth ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefits; Cost benefit analysis; Economics; Pest control

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; PEST CONTROL; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 39549092837     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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