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Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice / Jill Lindsey Harrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Jill Lindsey, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Food, health, and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects--California.
- Pesticides.
- Air--Pollution--California.
- Air.
- Air--Pollution.
- Spraying and dusting in agriculture.
- Industrial safety.
- Environmental justice.
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
- California.
- Environmental justice--California.
- Spraying and dusting in agriculture--California--Safety measures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "In this book, Jill Lindsey Harrison considers political conflicts over pesticide drift in California, using them to illuminate the broader problem and its potential solutions. The fact that pesticide pollution and illnesses associated with it disproportionately affect the poor and the powerless raises questions of environmental justice (and political injustice). Despite California's impressive record of environmental protection, massive pesticide regulatory apparatus, and booming organic farming industry, pesticide-related accidents and illnesses continue unabated. To unpack this conundrum, Harrison examines the conceptions of justice that increasingly shape environmental politics and finds that California's agricultural industry, regulators, and pesticide drift activists hold different, and conflicting, notions of what justice looks like."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- 1 Introducing Environmental Justices 1
- 2 Assessing the Scope and Severity of Pesticide Drift 25
- 3 The Crop Protection Industry 51
- 4 The Environmental Regulatory State 85
- 5 The Alternative Agrifood Movement 145
- 6 Conclusion: Taking Justice Seriously 187.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262298766
- 0262298767
- 128334369X
- 9781283343695
- OCLC:
- 767669353
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613343697
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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