Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice /:

"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 powerles...

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1. Verfasser: Harrison, Jill Lindsey, 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Schriftenreihe:Food, health, and the environment.
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-268) and index.
ISBN:9780262298766
0262298767
128334369X
9781283343695
0262297884
9780262297882
9786613343697
6613343692