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Author Harrison, Jill Lindsey, 1975- author.

Title Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice / Jill Lindsey Harrison
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©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.
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
Analysis ENVIRONMENT/General
ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-268) and index
Notes English
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
Environmental justice
Pesticides -- Environmental aspects
Spraying and dusting in agriculture -- Safety measures
California
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011001921
ISBN 9780262298766
0262298767
128334369X
9781283343695
0262297884
9780262297882
9786613343697
6613343692