DDT : properties, uses and toxicity / / editor, Kathleen Sanders |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Novinka, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (127 pages) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Collana | Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety |
Soggetto topico |
DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology
DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect |
ISBN | 1-5361-0026-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148704103321 |
New York : , : Novinka, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DDT and the American Century : Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World / / David Kinkela |
Autore | Kinkela David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Collana | The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state |
Soggetto topico |
DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects
Insect pests - Control - History - 20th century DDT (Insecticide) - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4696-0263-6
0-8078-6930-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DDT and the American century -- An island in a sea of disease : DDT enters a global war -- Disease, DDT, and development : the American century in Italy -- Science in the service of agriculture : DDT and the beginning of the green revolution in Mexico -- The age of wreckers and exterminators : eradication in the postwar world -- Green revolutions in conflict : debating Silent spring, food, and science during the Cold War -- It's all or nothing : debating DDT and development under the law -- One man's pesticide is another man's poison : the controversy continues -- Rethinking DDT in a global age. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457939303321 |
Kinkela David | ||
Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DDT and the American Century : Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World / / David Kinkela |
Autore | Kinkela David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Collana | The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state |
Soggetto topico |
DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects
Insect pests - Control - History - 20th century DDT (Insecticide) - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4696-0263-6
0-8078-6930-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DDT and the American century -- An island in a sea of disease : DDT enters a global war -- Disease, DDT, and development : the American century in Italy -- Science in the service of agriculture : DDT and the beginning of the green revolution in Mexico -- The age of wreckers and exterminators : eradication in the postwar world -- Green revolutions in conflict : debating Silent spring, food, and science during the Cold War -- It's all or nothing : debating DDT and development under the law -- One man's pesticide is another man's poison : the controversy continues -- Rethinking DDT in a global age. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781582203321 |
Kinkela David | ||
Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world / / David Kinkela |
Autore | Kinkela David |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Collana | Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state |
Soggetto topico |
DDT (Insecticide) - History - 20th century
Insect pests - Control - History - 20th century DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects |
ISBN |
979-88-9313-463-6
1-4696-0263-6 0-8078-6930-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DDT and the American century -- An island in a sea of disease : DDT enters a global war -- Disease, DDT, and development : the American century in Italy -- Science in the service of agriculture : DDT and the beginning of the green revolution in Mexico -- The age of wreckers and exterminators : eradication in the postwar world -- Green revolutions in conflict : debating Silent spring, food, and science during the Cold War -- It's all or nothing : debating DDT and development under the law -- One man's pesticide is another man's poison : the controversy continues -- Rethinking DDT in a global age. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828518803321 |
Kinkela David | ||
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DDT wars : rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating Environmental Defense Fund / / Charles F. Wurster |
Autore | Wurster Charles F. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology
DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects Health promotion Environmental health |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-755951-4
0-19-021943-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 Doesn�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 Safe�""; ""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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460195203321 |
Wurster Charles F. | ||
New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DDT wars : rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating Environmental Defense Fund / / Charles F. Wurster |
Autore | Wurster Charles F. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology
DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects Health promotion Environmental health |
ISBN |
0-19-755951-4
0-19-021943-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 Doesn�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 Safe�""; ""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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797186203321 |
Wurster Charles F. | ||
New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DDT wars : rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating Environmental Defense Fund / / Charles F. Wurster |
Autore | Wurster Charles F. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology
DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects Health promotion Environmental health |
ISBN |
0-19-755951-4
0-19-021943-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 Doesn�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 Safe�""; ""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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815783903321 |
Wurster Charles F. | ||
New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environmental impacts of microbial insecticides : need and methods for risk assessment |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Kluwer Academic, 2003 |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Soggetto topico |
Microbial insecticides - Environmental aspects
Environmental risk assessment Agriculture Earth & Environmental Sciences Plant Sciences |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910222244103321 |
[Place of publication not identified], : Kluwer Academic, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pesticide resistance, population dynamics and invasive species management / / Gregory J. McKee ... [et al.], editors |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (157 p.) |
Disciplina | 632/.9517 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McKeeGregory J |
Collana | Agriculture issues and policies series |
Soggetto topico |
Strawberries - Diseases and pests - Control - California
Greenhouse whitefly - Control - California Nonindigenous pests - Control - California Insecticide resistance - California |
ISBN |
1-62808-955-5
1-61728-459-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction and objectives : agricultural production, invasive species, externalities, and environmental policy -- Literature review : related literature on invasive species management and the role of bioeconomic modeling in invasive species management policy analysis -- An empirical application : the effect of the greenhouse whitefly on California strawberry production -- An interdisciplinary model of dynamic invasive species management -- A single-season dynamic model of invasive species management -- An analysis of preventing resistance development through pesticide use restrictions -- Managing the effect of spatial pest management externalities through grower coordination. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910703283803321 |
New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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