Circular
Circular

Author: California Agricultural Experiment Station

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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Report
Report

Author: University of California (System). College of Agriculture

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13:

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Wilted
Wilted

Author: Julie Guthman

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0520305272

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Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth‐highest‐grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests. In Wilted, Julie Guthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit’s production system. The particular conditions of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry.

The Politics of Fresh Water
The Politics of Fresh Water

Author: Catherine M. Ashcraft

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-08

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1317509978

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Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power relations and political decisions. This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed, and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another. The book analyzes responses to the water crisis as efforts to mitigate water insecurity and as expressions of collective identity that legitimate, resist, or seek to transform existing inequalities. The chapters focus on different processes that contribute to freshwater scarcity, including land use decisions, pollution, privatization, damming, climate change, discrimination, water management institutions and technology. Case studies are included from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and New Zealand.