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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Silent Spring"”.
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Silent Spring's Metaphors: Insights for 21st Century Environmental Discourse
… of contemporary analysis, Rachel Carson produced Silent Spring, a book hailed as the motivation for a new environmental movement in the United States. The use of metaphor in Silent Spring is most apparent in the title. The title's focus, however poignant, even moving and motivating, is …
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Data Experiences : novel interfaces for data engagement using environmental health data
… of information engagement. Using data from Silent Spring Institute's environmental health studies as a test case, I explore Data Experiences that are immersive, interactive, and aesthetic. Environmental health datasets are ideal for this application as they are highly relevant to the general …
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Storehouse of the Earth : to document the fast-changing environment
In the book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson argues that humans are one species that could modify its surroundings so drastically as to cause damage to the Earth. Currently, as a consequence of accumulated modification, the rapidity of environmental change accelerates and causes hazards all over the …
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'Insidious Pollen': Literature and Industrial Toxicity, 1935-Present
… legacy of Rachel Carson’s influential 1962 book *Silent Spring*, and contemporary American literary work on slow violence and cancer.
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… environmental texts like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) and Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968). As I will show, dystopian fiction produced during this period was influenced by and participated in debates about nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, overconsumption and …
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Development of multi-residue and selective methods for the ultra-sensitive determination of endocrine disrupting chemicals in aqueous samples
… changed with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962. This book documented for the first time the detrimental effects of pesticides on wildlife. More specifically, the link was proven between egg shell thinning of birds and the pollution of the surrounding environment with …
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A Multi-Scale analysis of organochlorine pesticide contamination in raptor populations: research effort, historical trends, and current concentrations
… (DDT) were made famous by Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring in the early 1960s. Their impacts on environmental and human health were subsequently widely recognised and led to their bans and/or restricted use. DDT and dieldrin are two of the most infamous pesticide compounds ever manufactured, …