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This book focuses on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Of great interest to students and researchers of pesticides, environmental sociology, environmental history, environmental studies, political ecology, geography, medical sociology, and science and technology studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. New Zealand's Painted Apple Moth Eradication Operation 2. The Social Production of a Foreign Species Incursion 3. Contextualizing the Eradication Response 4. Contextualizing the Aerial Pesticide Spraying Response 5. Community Responses to the Spraying Operation 6. Framing Foreign Species as Biosecurity Threats 7. Government Actions that Allay Pesticide Concerns 8. Managing Uncomfortable Knowledge 9. The Mediating Role of Cultural Context
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Manuel Vallée is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Zusammenfassung
This book focuses on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Of great interest to students and researchers of pesticides, environmental sociology, environmental history, environmental studies, political ecology, geography, medical sociology, and science and technology studies.
