1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815783903321

Autore

Wurster Charles F.

Titolo

DDT wars : rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating Environmental Defense Fund / / Charles F. Wurster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-755951-4

0-19-021943-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

632/.9517

Soggetti

DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology

DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect

DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects

Health promotion

Environmental health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A New England Town Sprays Its Elm Trees with DDT""; ""How Did I Get into This?""; ""DDT Kills Birds but Doesnâ€?t Save the Trees""; ""2. Sue the Bastards on Long Island: The Power of an Idea""; ""DDT Goes to Trial on Long Island""; ""Rigging the Audubon Convention;  A Wall Street Lawyer Was Unimpressed""; ""The Environmental Defense Fund Is Born""; ""3. Proceed with Caution, then Sue the Bastards in Michigan""; ""The Suit Partly Unravels;  Another Win While Losing""; ""The Cities Cave In, Forget to Kick Us Out""

""Evolving a Master Plan""""4. On to Wisconsin, the Dairy State""; ""DDT Goes to Trial in Madison, Wisconsin""; ""Birds Die, Nests Fail""; ""DDT, Thin Eggshells, and Reduced Reproduction in Birds""; ""DDT Reduces Reproduction in Trout and Salmon""; ""Wayland Hayes: “DDT Is Absolutely Safeâ€?""; ""A Toxicologist Arrives from Sweden""; ""The Task Force for DDT Questions the Analyses;  Confusion with PCBs""; ""Integrated Pest Management Without any DDT""; ""Summation: DDT Is a Pollutant in the Wisconsin Ecosystem""; ""To Make an Omelet, You will



Break Some Eggs""

""Mid-1969: Where Did We Stand, What Had We Accomplished?""""Final Verdict from the DDT Hearings in Wisconsin""; ""5. EDF, Barely an Organization, Getting Its Act Together""; ""Environmental Defense Fund, or Fundless Environmental Defenders?""; ""6. EDF Diversifies into New Environmental Arenas""; ""Early Battles""; ""The Environmental Decade: The 1970s""; ""Environmental Defense Fund: Biggest Bang for the Buck""; ""The Judicial Approach Is Contagious""; ""7. Time to Go After the Feds""; ""What!? DDT Also Causes Cancer?""; ""What!? DDT Also Causes Mutations and Birth Defects?""

""Both Federal Agencies React to the Petitions. Barely!""""The Environmental Defense Fund Takes Two Federal Agencies to Court""; ""The Appeals Court Makes an Historic Decision""; ""The Bruising Battle of the Briefs""; ""8. Escalating the DDT Issue with More Court Cases""; ""Flushing Tons of DDT into the Los Angeles Sewer System""; ""What Happened to Montrose and Its Pollution Legacy After 1972?""; ""Bald Eagles Gone, Golden Eagles Move in""; ""9. Changes in Washington Affect the DDT Battle""; ""EDF Begins to Expand: New People, New Washington Office""

""10. DDT Goes to Trial, Finally, in Washington, DC""""DDT: Global Contamination Problem""; ""Predatory Birds Pay the Price""; ""Mechanism for DDE-Induced Thin-Shelled Eggs""; ""Dangers of DDT to Fish and People Who Eat Them""; ""Superior Insect Control Without DDT""; ""Does DDT Cause Cancer? In Mice? Rats? Humans?""; ""DDT Industry Shortage of Qualified Witnesses""; ""11. Ruckelshaus Decides""; ""The Ruckelshaus Decision: DDT Gets Canceled! Almost!""; ""Both Sides Appeal the Ruling to the Court of Appeals""; ""Passing the Test of Time""; ""They Are After Us Again�40 Years Later. Why?""

""The Use of DDT for Controlling Malaria""

Sommario/riassunto

This is a firsthand account of the Environmental Defense Fund's battle to ban DDT from use as a pesticide, written by a founding member of the EDF. It describes the various legal and scientific maneuvers required to have the Environmental Protection Agency officially ban DDT.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910635389803321

Titolo

Telecommunications and Remote Sensing : 11th International Conference, ICTRS 2022, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 21–22, 2022, Proceedings / / edited by Boris Shishkov, Andon Lazarov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783031232268

3031232267

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 99 p. 62 illus., 39 illus. in color.)

Collana

Communications in Computer and Information Science, , 1865-0937 ; ; 1730

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Computers, Special purpose

Computer networks

Artificial intelligence

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems

Computer Communication Networks

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Barker Phase-Code-Modulation Waveform in ISAR Imaging System -- Influence of Solar Activity on the Space Environment During the March Equinox -- Detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based on Image Processing -- Combining Context-Awareness and Data Analytics in Support of Drone Technology -- The Societal Impacts of Drones: A Public Values Perspective -- Studying the Impact of PV Plants on Power Quality -- Algorithm for the Control of Intelligent Hybrid Systems for the Production of Electric and Thermal Energy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains the proceedings of ICTRS 2022 (the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing), held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 21-22 November 2022. ICTRS is an annual event that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in telecommunications, remote sensing, and their societal implications. As mentioned already, ICTRS is essentially leaning toward telecommunications and remote sensing plus relevant societal



implications. In this, ICTRS 2022 addresses a large number of research areas and topics, such as: Wireless Telecommunications and Networking; Electromagnetic Waves and Fields; Electronics and Photonics; Remote Sensing and Data Interpretation; Remote Sensing and Internet-Of-Things; and Societal Impact.