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

• Autore: Harrison Jill Lindsey <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 277 p.) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 363.738/4
• Soggetto topico: Pesticides - Environmental aspects - California; Air - Pollution - California; Environmental justice - California; Spraying and dusting in agriculture - California - Safety measures
• Soggetto non controllato: ENVIRONMENT/General; ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice
• ISBN: 0-262-29788-4; 1-283-34369-X; 9786613343697; 0-262-29876-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819761103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Food, health, and the environment.