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

By:

Harrison, Jill Lindsey, 1975- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780262298766
0262298767
128334369X
9781283343695
0262297884
9780262297882
9786613343697
6613343692

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice.DDC classification:

363.738/4 22

LOC classification:

TD887.P45 H37 2011eb

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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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-268) and index.

"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