Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management

Innovative Strategies for Managing Weeds in an Environmentally Protective MannerSuccessfully meeting the challenge of providing weed control without relying on dangerous chemicals that endanger the ecosystem or human lives this compendium focuses on management strategies that reduce herbicidal usage restore ecological balance and increase food production. It also provides new insights and approaches for weed scientists agronomists agriculturists horticulturists farmers and extentionists as well as teachers and students. In the Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management experts from Asia Europe North America and Australia organize in one resource information related to weeds and their management from different ecosystems around the world that has been until now been scattered throughout the literature.. The text captures the multifaceted impacts of and approaches to managing weeds from field farm landscape regional and global perspectives. Generously illustrated with tables and figures this book not only describes the various techniques for weed management but shows you what methods work best in a given region or in response to a specific invasive weed or invaded crop. Covering the full scope of modern weed science the handbook examines different aspects of weed management including— • Cultural practices • Cover crops • Crop rotation designs • Potential of herbicide resistant crops • Bioherbicides • Allelopathy • Microorganisms • Integrated weed management In spite of advancement in technologies and procedures weeds continue to pose a major ecological and economical threat to agriculture. Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management takes a broad view of weeds as a part of an agricultural system composed of interacting production environmental biological economic and social components all working together to find balance. This comprehensive book is a vital addition to the debate over how global weed management is changing in the 21st century. Also available in soft cover