Crosby, Donald G. (author), Davis, Donald E. (author), Fries, George F. (author), Newton, Michael (author), and Osweiler, Gary D. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1979-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D03034
Notes:
Report No. 81 published by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), Ames, Iowa. 18 pages., Response from CAST to the Public Broadcasting System's NOVA program, "A Plague on Our Children," televised nationwide on October 2, 1979.
Available via HathiTrust.org., Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog, Case study of 126 residents from a metropolitan area who, during the 1981-82 Mediterranean Fruitfly Crisis, were undergoing exposure to aerial spraying with a pesticide. Findings exemplified the difficulties facing decision makers and the public in uncertain risk situations such as this, as well as the politicization of risk.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08796
Notes:
Pages 243-254 in Dillon, Justin, Towards a convergence between science and environmental education: the selected works of Justin Dillon. United States: Routledge, New York City, New York, 2017. 361 pages.
