Articles:   6 Found within Pesticide Use

1Using Community-Based Social Marketing Techniques to Enhance Environmental…

Kennedy, A. (2010). Using Community-Based Social Marketing Techniques to Enhance Environmental Regulation. Sustainability, 2(4), 1138-1160
This article explores how environmental regulation may be improved through the use of community-based social marketing techniques. While regulation is an important tool of sustainability policy, it works upon a…
  Tools: Commitment, Communication, Incentives, Norms, Prompts
 

2Do You See What I See? Examining the Epistemic Barriers to Sustainable…

Carolan, M. (2006). Do You See What I See? Examining the Epistemic Barriers to Sustainable Agriculture. Rural Sociology, 71(2), 232.
This paper examines the epistemic barriers to sustainable agriculture, which are those aspects of food production that are not readily revealed by direct perception: such as decreases in rates of soil and nutrient…
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3Adverse Health Experiences, Environmental Attitudes, and Pesticide Usage Behavior…

Lichtenberg, E. & Zimmerman, R. (1999). Adverse health experiences, environmental attitudes, and pesticide usage behavior of farm operators . Risk Analysis, 19, 2, 283-294.
Examined whether farmers who have had adverse health experiences believed to be associated with pesticides are more likely to have heightened concerns and therefore take greater precautions in dealing with pesticides…
  Tools: Attitudes
 
 
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