Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290424 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Publisher: 
Routledge, London
Abstract: 
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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Subjects: 
Pesticide
toxification
biosecurity
invasive species
sociology of pesticides
environmental justice
Painted Apple Moth
Aerial Pesticide Spraying
Spraying Operation
Pesticide Spraying
Foreign Species
Tussock Moth
Aerial Spraying
Spray Zone
Health Risk Assessment
Biosecurity Threat
Argentine Ant
Mediterranean Fruit Fly
Attenuate Risk Perceptions
Spraying Campaign
Aedes Albopictus
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Uncomfortable Knowledge
CAG
Zebra Mussels
West Aucklanders
Auckland District Health Board
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ISBN: 
978-0-429-76090-7
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Document Type: 
Book

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