Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA.
J Agromedicine. 2023 Jan;28(1):90-96. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2022.2137617. Epub 2022 Oct 24.
Over the last 20 years, earth's increasing surface temperature has dramatically altered local climates and risks associated with agricultural work. In parallel, increasing automation has continued to be a hallmark of innovation in agriculture, promising to lower the economic and health externalities of labor in food production by reducing worker demand and hazardous exposure. However, many of these automations neither eliminate labor nor ameliorate climate change pressures on farms. As a result of the confluence between automation and environmental change, empirical studies into the social determinants of agricultural health and safety in rapidly automating industries impacted by local effects of climate change are essential for a responsive agricultural health and safety science. In this commentary, I suggest that looking outside of our disciplinary boundaries to the lessons learned from rural studies (RS), environmental social science (ESS), and science and technology studies (STS) can lend useful theoretical framing for the development of new research trajectories in the areas of automation and climate change as they impact agricultural health and safety.
在过去的 20 年里，地球表面温度的不断升高极大地改变了当地的气候，并增加了与农业工作相关的风险。与此同时，农业领域的自动化程度不断提高，这一直是创新的标志，有望通过减少工人的需求和减少危险暴露，降低食品生产中劳动力的经济和健康外部性。然而，许多自动化既没有消除劳动力，也没有减轻气候变化对农场的压力。由于自动化和环境变化的融合，对受气候变化局部影响的快速自动化行业中农业健康和安全的社会决定因素进行实证研究，对于响应式农业健康和安全科学至关重要。在这篇评论中，我认为，可以超越我们学科的界限，从农村研究（RS）、环境社会科学（ESS）和科学技术研究（STS）中吸取经验教训，为农业健康和安全领域中与自动化和气候变化相关的新研究轨迹的发展提供有用的理论框架。
