Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice /
"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 powerles...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Food, health, and the environment
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| ISBN: | 9780262298766 0262298767 128334369X 9781283343695 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015981.001.0001 |