Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns

Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9780429760891
ISBN-13 : 0429760892
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Book Synopsis Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns by : Manuel Vallée

Download or read book Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns written by Manuel Vallée and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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