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4 Economist's View of Ecologically Based Pest Management
4 Economist's View of Ecologically Based Pest Management
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Economics, sociology, anthropology, and other potentially relevant social sciences are critical to understanding that central, human aspect of the ecosystem that is being managed. To ignore the human behavioral and economic influences on the ecosystem is to fail to fully evaluate decisions in an ecological context.
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Third, the use of economic criteria to develop and refine pest control strategies helps to ensure that the end-product of the research is not only feasible and ecologically appropriate in this context but also preferable to the users' current approaches. Demonstrations of the relative economic advantages of various pest control
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AT WHAT STAGES IS ECONOMICS USEFUL? First, in the planning stage, when biological science partners are describing pest status, species identification, and distribution, and the ecological relationships that define an agroecosystem, economists can usefully survey the pest control market and identify the institutional factors that may improve the success of different ecologically based approaches.
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Perhaps the most serious barrier, however, is the lack of funding mechanisms for interdisciplinary works. The major competitive granting system for agriculture in this country is the USDA's National Research Initiative Competitive Grants program, which remains organized on basically disciplinary lines, despite the fact that there is encouragement and an honest attempt for interdisciplinary work (National Research Council, 1994~.
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There are coalitions and umbrella organizations whose missions are to increase funding for agricultural science without looking at it in a disciplinary perspective. Yet, the disciplinary lobbying continues and is something that professional societies should try to overcome in order to spur more funding for interdisciplinary research and study.
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Department of Agriculture. National Research Council.
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