Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns - Government Disinformation, Industry Profits, and Public Harm

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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Manuel Vallée is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Manuel Vallee, Manuel Vallée
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 26.12.2022
• EAN: 9781138387201
• ISBN: 978-1-138-38720-1
• Pages: 206
• Thème: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Sociology, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, biochemistry, Politics & government, Ethics & moral philosophy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Medical toxicology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Politics and government, Agricultural science, Physical geography & topography, Human Geography, Urban communities, Medical Sociology, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, Physical geography and topography, Pest control, Toxicology (non-medical), Pest control / plant diseases