EVALUATING NEW PROSPECTS IN PEST CONTROL

Pest control: a new industrial revolution.

Industries such as manufacturing, mining, and transportation have been experiencing mechanization and automation for well over 100 years. Agriculture, in contrast, has lagged behind and only in the last 30 years have these processes been adopted. Long considered a way of life rather than an industry, farming is now becoming as highly industrialized as the traditionally organized businesses. Pes...

Trail Pheromones in Pest Control

Optimal Control in Discrete Pest Control Models

We use discrete time models to represent the dynamics of two interacting populations, a “valuable” population and a “pest” population. We investigate optimal control in the form of decreasing the growth rate of the “pest” population with the goal of maximizing the “valuable” population while minimizing the cost of the control. We compare different types of growth functions for the “valuable” po...

Evaluating Life or Death Prospects

Luc Bovens and Marc Fleurbaey Economics and Philosophy / Volume 28 / Special Issue 02 / July 2012, pp 217 ­ 249 DOI: 10.1017/S0266267112000235, Published online: 29 August 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0266267112000235 How to cite this article: Luc Bovens and Marc Fleurbaey (2012). EVALUATING LIFE OR DEATH PROSPECTS. Economics and Philosophy, 28, pp 217­249 ...

Sound in Vertebrate Pest Control