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Ddt : scientists, citizens, and public policy /

From the time the public learned of DDT's dramatic containment of a typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972, this is the story of the controversial pesticide and its part in the rise of the environmental movement.Originally...

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Main Authors: Dunlap, Thomas
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [1983]
©1983
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Pesticides > Government policy > United States > History.
Biology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects.
Ecology.
Natural Sciences.
Pesticides > Government policy.
SCIENCE > Ecology. > Ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400853854
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Summary: From the time the public learned of DDT's dramatic containment of a typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972, this is the story of the controversial pesticide and its part in the rise of the environmental movement.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(318pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781400853854
Index Number: QH545
CLC: X592
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
Abbreviations --
Chapter 1. Economic Entomology and Insecticides --
Chapter 2. Human Health and Insecticide Residues --
Chapter 3. Applying Old Lessons --
Chapter 4. Wildlife and DDT --
Chapter 5. Storm over Silent Spring --
Chapter 6. Moving toward Court --
Chapter 7. A Legal Tour of Round River --
Chapter 8. Is It Safe and Necessary? --
Chapter 9. Final Rounds --
Epilogue. Qualified Victory --
Appendixes --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.

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