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Book Review: Fire management in the American west: Forest politics and the rise of megafires

Book Review: Fire management in the American west: Forest politics and the rise of megafires 100 Organization & Environment 25(1) pesticide drift activists have faced in establishing the fact that pesticides are harmful so that regu- latory agencies will do something about them. These difficulties include the fact that efforts to collect data on drift are intermittent and incomplete; that there is disagreement among scientists about how to set exposure thresholds, how to treat missing data, and how to account for chronic effects of low levels of exposure; and that the social vulnerabilities of farm workers make it unlikely that they will report exposure. This chapter would be an excellent reading for classes having to do with environmental problems and public health. I found the short section in chapter 3 on the rise of chemically enhanced farming methods in the 1950s, especially the role of the federal government and the university research that grew the practice and institutionalized it, especially interesting. This section also points to a strength of the book in that the author continually contextualizes the problem so that readers can see how tech- nology, culture, and social structure interconnect to create and maintain this environmental prob- lem. In this chapter, Harrison neatly describes how the capitalist imperative to maximize profits in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Book Review: Fire management in the American west: Forest politics and the rise of megafires

Brock, Emily K.
Organization & Environment , Volume 25 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2012
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SAGE
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© The Author(s) 2012
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1086-0266
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1552-7417
DOI
10.1177/1086026612444439
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100 Organization & Environment 25(1) pesticide drift activists have faced in establishing the fact that pesticides are harmful so that regu- latory agencies will do something about them. These difficulties include the fact that efforts to collect data on drift are intermittent and incomplete; that there is disagreement among scientists about how to set exposure thresholds, how to treat missing data, and how to account for chronic effects of low levels of exposure; and that the social vulnerabilities of farm workers make it unlikely that they will report exposure. This chapter would be an excellent reading for classes having to do with environmental problems and public health. I found the short section in chapter 3 on the rise of chemically enhanced farming methods in the 1950s, especially the role of the federal government and the university research that grew the practice and institutionalized it, especially interesting. This section also points to a strength of the book in that the author continually contextualizes the problem so that readers can see how tech- nology, culture, and social structure interconnect to create and maintain this environmental prob- lem. In this chapter, Harrison neatly describes how the capitalist imperative to maximize profits in

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Published: Mar 1, 2012

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