STRATEGIES FOR DEPLOYMENT OF AGRICULTURAL COUNTERMEASURES

The aim of the Relative Effectiveness of Agricultural Countermeasures Techniques workshop (REACT) was to provide a forum in which to evaluat e current knowledge of different agricultural countermeasures. Initial decisions about the possible need for intervention in a particular ar ea will be made at national or regional government level. The argument s that underlie these decisions were outside the remit of this worksho p. Instead, attention was directed towards the basis for practical dec isions about countermeasures that could be employed in a particular si tuation. Countermeasures differ, both in their effectiveness and their economic, ecological and social impact. In certain situations counter measures developed before and since the Chernobyl accident have genera l applicability. However, this is not always the case and in general a fundamental understanding of the processes involved is needed to pred ict the effect that a given countermeasure might have under a range of different circumstances.