The Environment and Science: Social Impact and InteractionBloomsbury Academic, 2005 M04 25 - 299 páginas A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present. |
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... Carson's Silent Spring ( 1962 ) created an unprecedented public and polit- ical response that has earned it the ... Carson , eventually became synonymous with criticism of widespread use of DDT . In 1945 , Carson proposed an article on ...
... Carson's explicit goal became the public response . At one point in the project , Houghton Mifflin considered " The Control of Nature " as a working title for the book , but Carson resisted . She acknowledged that pesticide use ...
... Carson described the dangers of a range of insecti- cides . For each , she indicated where risks were even greater than for DDT and where they were less . She discussed in detail how herbicides , chemicals used to control weeds , also ...
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Ecology and the Foundations of Environmental Science | 83 |
The Succession of Communities | 91 |
Protecting Species | 100 |
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