Climate change impacts on urban pests

✍ Scribed by Dhang, Partho

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: CABI climate change series 10
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is the first resource to review the influence of climate change on urban and public pests such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, and wood pests, with respect to population, distribution, disease, damage and control. It systematically addresses how the impact of climate change on pests in urban areas differs from natural areas, focusing on the increased temperatures of urban locations, the effect of natural disasters, the manner of land use and the consequences of human habitation. Climate Change Impacts on Urban Pests:

- covers key information on how climate change and urban pests affect human health
- includes coverage of the impacts of natural disasters such as flooding looks at issues which could influence the management of pests
- explores a range of international opinion from recognised authorities covering six continents.

Presenting up-to-date knowledge, this book is an essential resource for researchers in urban pests, entomology and public health, as well as scientists, environmentalists and policy makers involved in studies on climate change

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Climate Change and the new dynamics of Urban Pest Management in North America 2. Climate Change and its effect on rodents 3. Climate change and its effect on termite and wood borers 4. Natural disasters, extreme events, and vector-borne disease 5. Climate change & Vector borne diseases in India 6. Climate Change : Mosquito & diseases in Africa 7. Climate change & and its effect on urban flies 8. Climate change and its effect on urban Mosquito in South America 9 Technologies suitable for area wide pest control 10 Effect of climate change on mosquito population and distribution in Philippines 11 Innovative formulations for specialized application

✦ Subjects

Urban pests;Climatic factors.;Climatic changes.