Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice ( Food, Health, and the Environment )

Publication series :Food, Health, and the Environment

Author: Harrison   Jill Lindsey  

Publisher: MIT Press‎

Publication year: 2011

E-ISBN: 9780262297882

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780262516280

Subject: X592 agricultural chemicals, toxic chemical pollution and its prevention

Keyword: SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental),TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General

Language: ENG

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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 California's impressive record of environmental protection, massive pesticide regulatory apparatus, and booming organic farming industry, pesticide-related accidents and illnesses continue unabated. To unpack this conundrum, Harrison examines the conceptions of justice that increasingly shape environmental politics and finds that California's agricultural industry, regulators, and pesticide drift activists hold different, and conflicting, notions of what justice looks like. Drawing on her own extensive ethnographic research as well as in-depth interviews with regulators, activists, scientists, and public health practitioners, Harrison examines the ways industry, regulatory agencies, and different kinds of activists address pesticide drift, connecting their efforts to communitarian and

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