Pesticide risk perceptions and the differences between farmers and extensionists: Towards a knowledge-in-context model

Environmental Research

Volumn 124, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-53

  Ríos González, Adriana ^a,b   Jansen, Kees ^c   Javier Sánchez Pérez, Héctor ^a,b  

^a Society Culture and Health Academic Area   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blaming; Knowledge in context; Pesticides; Risk perception; Schooling; Social perspective

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; EDUCATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PESTICIDE; SMALLHOLDER;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RISK PERCEPTION; RISK REDUCTION; SCIENTIST; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICO; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PESTICIDES; RISK;

EID: 84878382437     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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