| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series |
Food, health, and the environment |
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Food, health, and the environment.
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| 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.
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Air -- Pollution -- California.
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Environmental justice -- California.
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Spraying and dusting in agriculture -- California -- Safety measures.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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Air -- Pollution.
(OCoLC)fst00802083
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Environmental justice. (OCoLC)fst00913104
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Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01059032
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Spraying and dusting in agriculture -- Safety measures.
(OCoLC)fst01130886
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California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
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| 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.) |
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0262298767 (electronic bk.) |
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