Keeping Matter in its Place: Pollution Regulation and the Reconfiguring of Farmers and Farming

N Ward, J Clark, P Lowe and S Seymour
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N Ward: Department of Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England
J Clark: Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, England
P Lowe: Centre for Rural Economy, Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England
S Seymour: Department of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England

Environment and Planning A, 1998, vol. 30, issue 7, 1165-1178

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.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1068/a301165

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