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Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?
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Artikel-Nr:
9780844743639
Veröffentl:
2011
Seiten:
169
Autor:
Jon Entine
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In Crop Chemophobia, Jon Entine and his coauthors examine the 'precautionary principle' that underlies the EU's decision and explore the ban's potential consequences-including environmental degradation, decreased food safety, impaired disease-control efforts, and a hungrier world.
The Green Revolution of 1960s introduced herbicides, pesticides, and advanced agricultural technologies to third world countries-rescuing hundreds of millions of people from malnutrition and starvation and transforming low-yield, labor-intensive farming into the high-tech, immensely productive industry it is today. Despite these stunning gains, critics of chemical farming remain vocal. Recently, the European Union passed a ban on twenty-two chemicals-about 15 percent of the EU pesticides market-to begin in 2011. In Crop Chemophobia, Jon Entine and his coauthors examine the "precautionary principle" that underlies the EU's decision and explore the ban's potential consequences-including environmental degradation, decreased food safety, impaired disease-control efforts, and a hungrier world.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Jon Entine
Part I: Perspective
Chapter 1: European Pesticides and Herbicides int eh Crosshairs
Euros Jones
Chapter 2: The Problems with Precaution
Jonathan H. Adler
Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 3: The Case of Atrazine
Jon Entine
Chapter 4: The Tart Cherry: Pesticides and Precaution
Mark Whalon
Chapter 5: Unintended Consequences: Dangerous Misconceptions about Public Health Insecticides, the Environment, and Human Health
Richard Tren
Part III: Precautionary Politics
Chapter 6: Precaution, Custom, and the World Trade Organization
Claude Barfield
Chapter 7: Feeding a Hungry World: Opportunity and Obligation for U.S. Agriculture
Douglas Nelson and Alexander Rinkus
Index
About the Authors
Introduction
Jon Entine
Part I: Perspective
Chapter 1: European Pesticides and Herbicides int eh Crosshairs
Euros Jones
Chapter 2: The Problems with Precaution
Jonathan H. Adler
Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 3: The Case of Atrazine
Jon Entine
Chapter 4: The Tart Cherry: Pesticides and Precaution
Mark Whalon
Chapter 5: Unintended Consequences: Dangerous Misconceptions about Public Health Insecticides, the Environment, and Human Health
Richard Tren
Part III: Precautionary Politics
Chapter 6: Precaution, Custom, and the World Trade Organization
Claude Barfield
Chapter 7: Feeding a Hungry World: Opportunity and Obligation for U.S. Agriculture
Douglas Nelson and Alexander Rinkus
Index
About the Authors