1st Edition
Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns Government Disinformation, Industry Profits, and Public Harm
By Manuel Vallée
Copyright 2023
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: New Zealand's Painted Apple Moth Eradication Operation
Chapter 2: The Social Production of a Foreign Species Incursion
Chapter 3: Contextualizing the Eradication Response
Chapter 4: Contextualizing the Aerial Pesticide Spraying Response
Chapter 5: Community Responses to the Spraying Operation
Chapter 6: Framing Foreign Species as Biosecurity Threats
Chapter 7: Government Actions that Allay Pesticide Concerns
Chapter 8: Managing Uncomfortable Knowledge
Chapter 9: The Mediating Role of Cultural Context
Conclusion
Biography
Manuel Vallée is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
