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Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Paperback)
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Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Paperback)
Series: Food, Health, and the Environment
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List price R560
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Discovery Miles 4 560
You Save R104 (19%)
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An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the
differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and
activists. The widespread but virtually invisible problem of
pesticide drift-the airborne movement of agricultural pesticides
into residential areas-has fueled grassroots activism from Maine to
Hawaii. Pesticide drift accidents have terrified and sickened many
living in the country's most marginalized and vulnerable
communities. 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. Drawing on her own
extensive ethnographic research as well as in-depth interviews with
regulators, activists, scientists, and public health practitioners,
Harrison examines the ways industry, regulatory agencies, and
different kinds of activists address pesticide drift, connecting
their efforts to communitarian and libertarian conceptions of
justice. The approach taken by pesticide drift activists, she
finds, not only critiques theories of justice undergirding
mainstream sustainable-agriculture activism, but also offers an
entirely new notion of what justice means. To solve seemingly
intractable environmental problems such as pesticide drift,
Harrison argues, we need a different kind of environmental justice.
She proposes the precautionary principle as a framework for
effectively and justly addressing environmental inequities in the
everyday work of environmental regulatory institutions.
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