Vanishing bees : science, politics, and honeybee health /

In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths-some of which have come to be called Col...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Suryanarayanan, Sainath (مؤلف), Kleinman, Daniel Lee (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
سلاسل:Nature, society, and culture.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1428988
جدول المحتويات:
  • Knowing with their eyes? Beekeepers' understandings of CCD
  • Keeping the research disciplined: entomological understandings of the controversy over insecticides
  • Bees under the treadmill of agriculture: growers' responses to bee decline
  • The bottom-line for Bayer: agrochemical companies and bee care
  • Regulating knowledge: the EPA and pesticide standards.