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Ghostworkers and Greens Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962--2011.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ghostworkers and Greens Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962--2011.
Author:	Tompkins, Adam.
Description:	386 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-07, Section: A, page: .
Notes:	Adviser: Paul Hirt.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-07A.
Subject:	History, United States.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3454165
ISBN:	9781124630021

Ghostworkers and Greens Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962--2011.
Tompkins, Adam.

Ghostworkers and Greens Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962--2011. - 386 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-07, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2011.

Growers and the USDA showed increasing favor for agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control through the first half of the twentieth century. With the introduction of DDT and other synthetic chemicals to commercial markets in the post-World War II era, pesticides became entrenched as the primary form of pest control in the industrial agriculture production system. Despite accumulating evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and government exercised path-dependent behavior in the development and implementation of pest control strategies. As pests developed resistance to regimens of agricultural chemicals, growers applied pesticides with greater toxicity in higher volumes to their fields with little consideration for the unintended consequences of using the economic poisons. Consequently, pressure from non-governmental organizations proved a necessary predicate for pesticide reform.

ISBN: 9781124630021Subjects--Topical Terms:

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History, United States.

Ghostworkers and Greens Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962--2011.
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520 $a This dissertation uses a series of case studies to examine the role of non-governmental organizations, particularly environmental organizations and farmworker groups, in pesticide reform from 1962 to 2011. For nearly fifty years, these groups served as educators, communicating scientific and experiential information about the adverse effects of pesticides on human health and environment to the public, and built support for the amendment of pesticide policies and the alteration of pesticide use practices. Their efforts led to the passage of more stringent regulations to better protect farmworkers, the public, and the environment. Environmental organizations and farmworker groups also acted as watchdogs, monitoring the activity of regulatory agencies and bringing suit when necessary to ensure that they fulfilled their responsibilities to the public.
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