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Silent spring at 50 : the false crises of Rachel Carson / edited by Roger Meiners, Pierre Desrochers, and Andrew Morriss.
Van Pelt Library QH545.P4 C386 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Silent spring.
- Carson, Rachel.
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
- Pesticides.
- Pesticides--Toxicology.
- Pesticides and wildlife.
- Insect pests--Biological control.
- Insect pests.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 364 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Silent spring at fifty
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2012]
- Contents:
- Silent spring at 50
- The lady who started all this
- The intellectual groundwaters of Silent spring : rethinking Rachel Carson's place in the history of American environmental thought
- Silent spring as secular religion
- The selective silence of Silent spring : birds, pesticides, and alternatives to pesticides
- Rachel Carson's health scare
- The balance of nature and "the other road" : ecological paradigms and the management legacy of Silent spring
- Did Rachel Carson understand the importance of DDT in global public health programs?
- Agricultural revolutions and agency wars : how the 1950s laid the groundwork for Silent spring
- The false promise of federalization
- The precautionary principle : Silent spring's toxic legacy
- Risk over-simplified : the enduring and unfortunate legacy of Silent spring.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1937184994
- 9781937184995
- OCLC:
- 776501743
- Publisher Number:
- 99951523259
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