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Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Jill Lindsey Harrison is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 environ

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jill Lindsey Harrison
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262298766
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Agriculture, Science, Technology

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