Selecting Pesticides and Nonchemical Alternatives: Green Thumbs’ Rules of Thumb Decision Tools

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• Personal Author:
  Bone PS ; Grieshop JI ; Stiles MC
• Description:
  This study of a sample of home gardeners indicates that rules of thumb, or heuristics, are used to select between chemical pesticides and nonchemical alternatives. Such rules of thumb serve to simplify otherwise complicated choice decisions. Heuristics commonly used to choose pesticides include how safe, effective, efficacious, and economical they are, whereas for alternative products consumers more often take into account convenience, efficiency, competency, and handiness. Generally, in an overall ranking of 24 individual choice attributes, pesticies rank low on these attributes where alternatives rank high and vice versa. Gender, age, and years using pesticides are significantly correlated with pesticide selection. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Ecology Education Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Insecticides Occupational Health Public Health Safety

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Ecological-systems Environmental-contamination Environmental-control Environmental-exposure Environmental-hazards Environmental-health Environmental-pollution Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Public-health Safety-climate Safety-equipment

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• ISSN:
  0022-0078
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  129-145
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033193
• Citation:
  J Consum Aff 1992 Jun; 26(1):129-145
• Contact Point Address:
  J. I. Grieshop, Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19900930
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of Consumer Affairs
• End Date:
  20020929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f55fbc86f2f69b3daa59ac97a9f28924e9198c6de9132c4050f46b645f1479fe47e889603bfc6638552afc26a8b537af837021667fc114b3196e6acb2d0b0da4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188865/cdc_188865_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.38 MB ]