| Description |
1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies |
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Conclusion -- Index |
| Subject |
Pesticides -- Application -- New Zealand
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Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- New Zealand
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Moths -- Control -- New Zealand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429760907 |
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0429760906 |
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