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Keeping matter in its place: pollution regulation and the reconfiguring of farmers and farming

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Neil Ward, Professor Philip Lowe

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Abstract

In this paper we examine the regulation of agricultural practice to reduce the risks of water pollution in England and Wales. We present case-study material concerning water pollution from farm livestock effluents and from agricultural pesticides, and focus on the ways in which farmers and farming practices are being reconfigured under the banner of a move towards a 'more sustainable agriculture'. Pollution policies can be seen as attempts not only to 'stabilise' nature in the rural environment, but also as a process of social ordering as farmers are recast as responsible environmental managers with newly instrumentalised self-governing properties.

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Author(s): Ward N, Clark J, Lowe P, Seymour S

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Environment and Planning A

Year: 1998

Volume: 30

Issue: 7

Pages: 1165-1178

Print publication date: 01/07/1998

ISSN (print): 0308-518X

ISSN (electronic): 1472-3409

Publisher: Pion Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a301165

DOI: 10.1068/a301165

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