Rationalising risk
Grower strategies to manage plant disease in the UK wheat and potato sectors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4690863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Damian Maye (0000-0002-4459-6630, Countryside and Community Research Institute Oxstalls Campus Oxstalls Lane, Longlevens Gloucester GL2 9HW), Brian Ilbery (Countryside and Community Research Institute Oxstalls Campus Oxstalls Lane, Longlevens Gloucester GL2 9HW), Ruth Little (0000-0001-5466-0387, Department of Geography University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 178 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 338-347 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00485.x |
| OpenAlex | W1955540397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 35 |
The threat that plant diseases and pests pose to food production and ecosystem services is neither well understood in the social sciences nor publicly debated, despite the fact that it is significant and growing. This paper presents findings from interviews with wheat and potato growers in two parts of the UK (Lincolnshire and Herefordshire). It uses conceptual work on risk and risk perception to understand how farmers encounter, comprehend and manage plant disease. Plant disease was perceived by growers as a significant but controllable risk mostly through the (generally) prophylactic use of spray chemicals. The introduction of revised European legislation governing - and potentially restricting - the use of 'key' agro-chemicals may, in the future, reduce the perception and level of control growers feel they have over disease in their crops. Perceptions of plant disease risk and strategies to ameliorate their impact involve scientific deliberation and appear to be highly rational. However, such perceptions are not merely conceived in scientific terms. Decisionmaking is rational but encultured as a practical farm management priority rather than pure scientific risk
Agricultural science · Agriculture · Biology · Business · Deliberation · Disease · Environmental planning · Geography · Legislation · Perception · Plant disease · Political science · Risk analysis (engineering · Risk management · Risk perception · Scientific evidence · Work (physics · Biotechnology · Ecology · Engineering · Medicine · Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases · Plant Pathogens and Resistance · Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |