Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice

Name: Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
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ISBN: 9780262516280

ISBN-10: 0262516284

ISBN-13: 9780262516280

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jill Lindsey Harrison

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880



Series Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introducing Environmental Justices



Assessing the Scope and Severity of Pesticide Drift



The Crop Protection Industry



The Environmental Regulatory State



The Alternative Agrifood Movement



Conclusion: Taking Justice Seriously


Notes


Reference


Index