Manuel Vallée

Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns

Government Disinformation, Industry Profits, and Public Harm

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138387201
• ISBN-10: 1138387207
• Artikelnr.: 60004318

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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