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Moralizing The Environment Countryside change, farming and pollution
240 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1997. There was a time when pollution was equated with the urban and the industrial. But things have changed. What were previously mutually exclusive categories of "agriculture" and "pollution" have been brought together in a new, morally charged atmosphere. Moralizing the environment is a study of how this shift came about. It examines the emergence of the farm pollution... Read more
I Moralizing the environment: understanding farm pollution 2 Changing dairy farming and the pollution problem 3 Farm pollution as a non-issue 4 The politicization of farm pollution 5 The Pollution lnspecton' accounts of farm pollution 6 The dairy farmen' accounts of farm pollution 7 Pollution control and social networks 8 Conclusions: constructing moral orders
Biography
Philip Lowe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Judy CLark, University College London; Susanne Seymour University of Nottingham; Neil Ward, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
