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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jill Lindsey Harrison |
| ISBN: | 9780262015981 0262015986 9780262516280 0262516284 |
| OCLC Number: | 704243729 |
| Description: | xvii, 277 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Food, health, and the environment. |
| Responsibility: | Jill Lindsey Harrison. |
Abstract:
"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."--Provided by publisher.
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"...This is an important and timely addition to the conversation surrounding U.S. agriculture. It is a welcome antidote to the antipolitics of the food reform movement."--Madeleine Fairbairn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rural Sociology "Harrison does an excellent job of explaining why pesticide regulation and activism has failed to curb pesticide drift... [T]he book provides an important contribution to sociological thinking about environmental justice, helping readers to better expose the assumptions that underlie unjust systems." -- Alison Hope Alkon, American Journal of Sociology Read more...
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