Vanishing Bees : : Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health / / Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sainath Suryanarayanan.
In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths-some of which have come to be called Col...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, Society, and Culture
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Knowing with Their Eyes? Beekeepers' Understandings of CCD
- 2. Keeping the Research Disciplined: Entomological Understandings of the Controversy over Insecticides
- 3. Bees under the Treadmill of Agriculture: Growers' Responses to Bee Decline
- 4. The Bottom Line for Bayer: Agrochemical Companies and "Bee Care"
- 5. Regulating Knowledge: The EPA and Pesticide Standards
- Coda: Toward Just Research and Policy on Bee Health
- Notes
- References
- Index