Pesticide Law and Compliance Decision Making A Case Study of Chinese

This book investigates pesticide compliance in China in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of compliance and offers some feasible and adaptable suggestions for enhancing the effectiveness of this compliance. It discusses the weak implemen

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Pesticide Law and Compliance Decision Making A Case Study of Chinese Farmers

Pesticide Law and Compliance Decision Making

Huiqi Yan

Pesticide Law and Compliance Decision Making A Case Study of Chinese Farmers

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Huiqi Yan School of Public Administration Central South University Changsha, Hunan China

ISBN 978-981-10-3916-4 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3917-1

ISBN 978-981-10-3917-1

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For my parents, and Jinyang Fu Past, Present and Future

Preface

Searching for an adequate book topic is always a difficult issue for a young researcher. I feel so lucky that I could do a project I am interested in: pesticide compliance study in a non-Western context. This topic connects what I have learned from my bachelor and master experiences in sociology with what I am interested in, namely law. It also connects a Chinese study with relevant theories and methods that have been developed in the West. How much does regulation matter in shaping regulated actors’ compliance behavior? This book opens up the black box of the regulated entities and shows how vegetable farmers in a non-Western context respond to pesticide regulation pressures. It provides a comprehensive understanding of compliance by directly adopting the existing compliance theories, and provides the most extensive and systematic empirical study of why farmers comply with or disobey the law, which advances understanding of implementation of law in China and adds a Chinese regulatory compliance case to the Western-oriented complianc