DDT : Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dunlap, Thomas R., 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Pesticides > Government policy > United States > History.
DDT (Insecticide) > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Pesticides > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects.
Pesticides > Government policy.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Part 1- Preparation for DDT ; Part 2- Learning about DDT ; Part 3- Changing Directions.

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