Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25759
Notes:
346 pages., Experiences of Dr. Jo Ann Burkholder and associates in trying to alert the scientific and general public to dangers posed by a toxic dinoflagellate, Pfiesteria. Confinement swine operations involved in polluting water systems.
McCallum, David B. (author) and Anderson, Laurel (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18301
Notes:
Pages 237-262 in Roger E. Kasperson and Pieter Jan M. Stallen (eds.), Communicating risks to the public: international perspectives. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 481 pages.
Via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Describes a program designed to encourage farmers to take "positive approaches to help protect the environment and keep peace with their neighbors."
USA: College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12123
Notes:
Via online research summary. 4 pages., Summary of a research project among rural and urban residents in the Upper Sangamon River Watershed in central Illinois to learn how much people care about local water quality, fish populations, and algae blooms, and how much they care about meeting Environmental Protection Agency targets which benefit the Gulf of Mexico. Responses indicated that rural and urban residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution and are willing to pay for environmental improvements.
