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Author Harrison, Jill Lindsey, 1975-

Title Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice / Jill Lindsey Harrison.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series Food, health, and the environment
Food, health, and the environment.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-268) and index.
Contents Introducing environmental justices -- Assessing the scope and severity of pesticide drift -- The crop protection industry -- The environmental regulatory state -- The alternative agrifood movement -- Conclusion: taking justice seriously.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- California.
Air -- Pollution -- California.
Environmental justice -- California.
Spraying and dusting in agriculture -- California -- Safety measures.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Air -- Pollution. (OCoLC)fst00802083
Environmental justice. (OCoLC)fst00913104
Pesticides -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01059032
Spraying and dusting in agriculture -- Safety measures. (OCoLC)fst01130886
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
Other Form: Print version: Harrison, Jill Lindsey, 1975- Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262015981 (DLC) 2011001921 (OCoLC)704243729
Standard No. 9786613343697
ISBN 9780262298766 (electronic bk.)
0262298767 (electronic bk.)
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