Pesticide Use and Risk Perceptions among Farmers in Southwest Iran

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 456-470

  Hashemi, Seyyed Mahmoud ^a   Rostami, Reza ^a   Hashemi, Mohammad Kazem ^a   Damalas, Christos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; risk perception; targeted extension; unsafe pesticide use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859391708     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2012.652472     Document Type: Article

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