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This book aims to organize the published environmental impact information on pesticides into a usable form to help growers and other integrated pest management practitioners make more environmentally sound pesticide choices. This book deals with all kinds of risks, such as risk to aquifers and aquatic organisms such as fish; risk to pollinators; risk to human health; risk to soil microflora and fauna; and risk to terrestrial organisms such as arthropods and wildlife, associated with the use of individual pesticides and their mixtures, their method of estimation and risk assessment using various tools. Remediation and management details are duly elaborated. The book also includes regulatory perspectives and covers various aspects of remediation for reducing the risk associated with pesticides.