Moralizing The Environment

by Lowe, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781857288407
• ISBN10: 1857288408
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Examining the emergence of the farm pollution problem in Britain in the 1980s, this book traces the resulting change in public opinion leading to a new "moralizing" of the countryside. The author examines issues such as effluents in the environment;

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Moralizing the environment: understanding farm pollution	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Methodology: following actors, following pollution	p. 9
Methods	p. 12
Outline of the book	p. 15
Changing dairy farming and the pollution problem	p. 18
Processes of change on dairy farms	p. 18
Effluents in the environment	p. 32
Conclusions	p. 36
Farm pollution as a non-issue	p. 39
Tackling an emergent problem	p. 40
Agricultural exceptionalism	p. 42
Farm pollution regulation in the 1970s and early 1980s	p. 53
Conclusions	p. 57
The politicization of farm pollution	p. 60
Introduction	p. 60
The politics of water privatization	p. 62
Farm pollution incidents	p. 65
Defining the problem	p. 68
Making sense of the data	p. 71
Local investigations: the Torridge Report	p. 75
Challenging agricultural exceptionalism	p. 77
Devising a solution	p. 79
A new regulatory framework	p. 82
Conclusions	p. 85
The Pollution Inspectors' accounts of farm pollution	p. 88
Introduction	p. 88
The regional organization of farm pollution control	p. 90
A day in the life of Bob: the field culture of a rural Pollution Inspector	p. 94
Perceptions of pollution and farming	p. 102
The regulation of farm pollution	p. 104
The threat of prosecution	p. 111
Conclusions	p. 117
The dairy farmers' accounts of farm pollution	p. 119
Introduction	p. 119
Life on a dairy farm	p. 120
The environment and the ethos of production	p. 125
Farmers and farm pollution	p. 127
Pollution control and the logic of farm improvement	p. 134
Farmers and the NRA	p. 136
Conclusions	p. 143
Pollution control and social networks	p. 145
Introduction	p. 145
ADAS, farmers and farm pollution: the technical discourse	p. 146
Local environmentalists and farm pollution: the moral discourse	p. 154
The NRA, Pollution Inspectors and farm pollution: negotiating the moral discourse	p. 162
The farmers' networks	p. 173
Conclusions: farm pollution and patterns of enrolment	p. 183
Conclusions: constructing moral orders	p. 191
Introduction	p. 191
Nature, rurality and morality	p. 192
The moralization of risk and regulatory science	p. 195
Networks, enrolment and identity creation	p. 197
Agriculture's moral economy	p. 200
The farmer and the field-level bureaucrat	p. 202
Afterword	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 219
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