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The Environmental And Social Injustice Of Farmworker Pesticide Exposure, Joan Flocks
The Environmental And Social Injustice Of Farmworker Pesticide Exposure, Joan Flocks
Joan D. Flocks
Farmworkers in the United States are recognized as an environmental justice community. The farmworker population is low-income and primarily Hispanic, and is at a disproportionate risk from exposure to an environmental contaminant pesticides. Farmworkers face distributional, procedural, corrective, and social challenges with this exposure, as is common with other environmental justice communities. Social challenges include socioeconomic and political inequities that are grounded in the historical domination of the agricultural industry over its labor force. The production and use of pesticides is a function of the economic priorities of industry. Employers profit from pesticide use and are able to maximize their …
Environmental Law In Developing Countries: Selected Issues, Ikechi Mgbeoji, Nazrul Islam, Isabel Martinez, Wang Xi
Environmental Law In Developing Countries: Selected Issues, Ikechi Mgbeoji, Nazrul Islam, Isabel Martinez, Wang Xi
Ikechi Mgbeoji
This publication contains four papers on different legal issues of interest to developing countries. The papers were researched and written by four Carl Duisberg Gesellscaft (CDG) Fellows who came to Germany from Bangladesh, Venezuela, Nigeria and China to study under the host leadership of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre. Subjects chosen by these Fellows vary widely, and cover ISO 14001, access to environmental justice in Latin America, patents and plant resources-related knowledge, and law and policy of the European Union on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and their significance to China.
Disaster Law And Policy, Daniel Farber, Jim Chen, Robert Verchick, Lisa Grow Sun
Disaster Law And Policy, Daniel Farber, Jim Chen, Robert Verchick, Lisa Grow Sun
Daniel A Farber