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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Hlavní autoři: Suryanarayanan, Sainath (Autor), Kleinman, Daniel Lee (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Edice:Nature, society, and culture.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1428988
Obsah:
  • 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.