Urban aerial pesticide spraying campaigns : government disinformation, industry profits, and public harm

Urban aerial pesticide spraying campaigns government disinformation, industry profits, and public harm

"This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have been increasingly used in densely-populat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vallée, Manuel, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge [2023]
Series:Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
Subjects:
Pesticides > Application > New Zealand.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects > New Zealand.
Moths > Control > New Zealand.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009871127306719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 New Zealand's Painted Apple Moth Eradication Operation
  • 2 The Social Production of a Foreign Species Incursion
  • 3 Contextualizing the Eradication Response
  • 4 Contextualizing the Aerial Pesticide Spraying Response
  • 5 Community Responses to the Spraying Operation
  • 6 Framing Foreign Species as Biosecurity Threats
  • 7 Government Actions that Allay Pesticide Concerns
  • 8 Managing Uncomfortable Knowledge
  • 9 The Mediating Role of Cultural Context
  • Conclusion
  • Index.

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