The document discusses integrated pest management (IPM), which is an information-based approach to controlling pests that uses multiple, complementary strategies. It outlines the six steps of IPM, which include identifying the pest and damage, learning about the pest's biology, surveying pest populations, establishing an action threshold, selecting management tactics, and evaluating results. These tactics are organized in an IPM pyramid that prioritizes cultural, biological, and biorational methods before last resort chemical pesticides. IPM aims to have positive effects like safer pest control and lower costs while minimizing negative environmental impacts.