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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York :
Routledge
[2023]
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| Colección: | Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009871127306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
