Moralizing The Environment

Countryside change, farming and pollution
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-1-85728-840-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

First published in 1997. There was a time when pollution was equated with the urban and the industrial. But things have changed. What were previously mutually exclusive categories of "agriculture" and "pollution" have been brought together in a new, morally charged atmosphere. Moralizing the environment is a study of how this shift came about. It examines the emergence of the farm pollution problem in Britain in the 1980s. It draws upon a study of the regulation of farm wastes - cattle slurry, silage effluent and the dirty water from farmyards - conducted between 1989 and 1995. Detailed surveys and ethnographic fieldwork were carried out in the south-west of England among dairy farmers, pollution inspectors, agricultural advisers and environmentalists. In trying to get to grips with farm pollution they were pursuing different notions not only of sound agricultural practice but also of nature, morality and the law. What ultimately was at stake was who could be trusted to safeguard the countryside.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowe, Philip

Clark, Judy

Seymour, Susanne

Ward, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Moralizing the environment: understanding farm pollution 2 Changing dairy farming and the pollution problem 3 Farm pollution as a non-issue 4 The politicization of farm pollution 5 The Pollution lnspecton' accounts of farm pollution 6 The dairy farmen' accounts of farm pollution 7 Pollution control and social networks 8 Conclusions: constructing moral orders

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Lowe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Judy CLark, University College London; Susanne Seymour University of Nottingham; Neil Ward, University of Newcastle upon Tyne