Sainath Suryanarayanan, Daniel Lee Kleinman

Vanishing Bees

Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health

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Produktbeschreibung

Takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780813574592
• ISBN-10: 0813574595
• Artikelnr.: 44894195

Autorenporträt

Suryanarayanan, Sainath

Inhaltsangabe

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
Notes
Reference List
Index