Title Urban aerial pesticide spraying campaigns : government disinformation, industry profits, and public harm / Manuel Vallée

Edition First edition Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 206 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge explorations in environmental studies Routledge explorations in environmental studies. Summary "This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have been increasingly used in densely-populated urban environments, and when faced with invasive species, governments have resorted to large-scale aerial pesticide spraying operations in urban areas. This book focuses on New Zealand's 2002-2004 pesticide campaign to eradicate the Painted Apple Moth, which is the largest operation of its kind in world history, whether we consider its duration (29 months), its scope (at its peak the spraying zone was 10,632 hectares/26,272 acres), the number of sprayings that were administered (the pesticide was administered on 60 different days), or the number of people exposed to the spraying (190,000+). This book provides an in-depth understanding of the social processes that contributed to the incursion, why the government sought to eradicate the moth through aerial pesticide spraying, the ideological strategies they used to build and maintain public support, and why those strategies were effective. Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns will be 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Manuel Vallée is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Auckland, New Zealand Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 07, 2023) Subject Pesticides -- Application -- New Zealand Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- New Zealand Moths -- Control -- New Zealand Environmental health. Urban health. Environmental sociology. NATURE / Ecology POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy Environmental health Environmental sociology Moths -- Control Pesticides -- Application Pesticides -- Environmental aspects Urban health New Zealand Form Electronic book LC no. 2022028979 ISBN 9780429426414 0429426410 9780429760907 0429760906 9780429760891 0429760892 9780429760884 0429760884

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