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Cleaning up agriculture: environment, technology and social science

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Philip Lowe

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Abstract

Social scientists frequently find science and technology within their subject matter but, by and large, they do not subject them to critical analysis. This paper first shows how various approaches to explaining agriculture and environment all treat science and technology naively as black boxes. It then goes on to indicate how science and technology might be opened up to social scientific scrutiny, and a framework for doing so in the context of farm pollution regulation is suggested.

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Author(s): Clark J, Lowe P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Sociologia Ruralis

Year: 1992

Volume: 32

Issue: 1

Pages: 11-29

Print publication date: 01/04/1992

ISSN (print): 0038-0199

ISSN (electronic): 1467-9523

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.1992.tb00916.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.1992.tb00916.x

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