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Elizabeth Brubaker: Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution

Elizabeth Brubaker: Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution Agric Hum Values (2009) 26:147–148 DOI 10.1007/s10460-008-9185-2 Elizabeth Brubaker: Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, 2007, 153 pp, ISBN 978-0-7727-8620-3 Jonathan L. Clark Published online: 2 December 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 As researchers in the field of agri-food studies turn their the subtitle of the book suggests, she advocates the attention to the institutional mechanisms that enable indus- decentralization of agricultural pollution control. Indeed, trial agri-food systems to persist in spite of their ecological Brubaker sees decentralization as an effective tool for contradictions, environmental regulation is likely to become building more sustainable agri-food systems. an increasingly important topic (Harrison 2008; Harrison The book is divided into seven chapters. Academic and Wolf 2008). That regulatory systems contribute to the researchers looking for a theory chapter will be disap- resilience of regulated industries is nowhere more apparent pointed. This is a book written not for social theorists but than in the industrial livestock and poultry feeding sectors. for concerned citizens and policy makers. The first chapter State legislatures in the United States have enacted right to introduces the reader to the problem of centralization. The farm laws that shield livestock and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Elizabeth Brubaker: Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 26 (2) – Dec 2, 2008

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/s10460-008-9185-2
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Agric Hum Values (2009) 26:147–148 DOI 10.1007/s10460-008-9185-2 Elizabeth Brubaker: Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, 2007, 153 pp, ISBN 978-0-7727-8620-3 Jonathan L. Clark Published online: 2 December 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 As researchers in the field of agri-food studies turn their the subtitle of the book suggests, she advocates the attention to the institutional mechanisms that enable indus- decentralization of agricultural pollution control. Indeed, trial agri-food systems to persist in spite of their ecological Brubaker sees decentralization as an effective tool for contradictions, environmental regulation is likely to become building more sustainable agri-food systems. an increasingly important topic (Harrison 2008; Harrison The book is divided into seven chapters. Academic and Wolf 2008). That regulatory systems contribute to the researchers looking for a theory chapter will be disap- resilience of regulated industries is nowhere more apparent pointed. This is a book written not for social theorists but than in the industrial livestock and poultry feeding sectors. for concerned citizens and policy makers. The first chapter State legislatures in the United States have enacted right to introduces the reader to the problem of centralization. The farm laws that shield livestock and

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Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 2, 2008

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