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Executive Summary. Pages 1-10.

Keywords: integrated pest management, cultural and biological approaches to pest management, safety, profitability, and durability, developing a knowledge base, understanding the interactive

processes of ecosystems, the need for multi-disciplinary ecosystem research, new research methods, implementation research, information inputs, public oversight of ecologically based pest management, appropriate risks, experience and experimentation, the need for guidelines