Urban aerial pesticide spraying campaigns : : government disinformation, industry profits, and public harm /

Urban aerial pesticide spraying campaigns : : government disinformation, industry profits, and public harm / / Manuel Vallée.

"This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have been increasingly used in densely-populat...

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Superior document:Routledge explorations in environmental studies
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Vallée, Manuel,
Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 206 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Index.

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