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 published in 1981.

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Thomas Dunlap

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 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Dunlap, Thomas R. Dunlap, Dunlap Thomas, Dunlap Thomas R.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691613901
• ISBN: 978-0-691-61390-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Ecological science, the Biosphere