Rachel Carson legacy and challenge

A legacy of activism and advocacy -- One patriot / Terry Tempest Williams -- Rachel Carson's scientific and ocean legacies / Jane Lubchenco -- Rachel Carson and George J. Wallace : why public environmental scientists should be advocates for nature / Peter C. List -- Ethics on land and at sea --...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sideris, Lisa H. (HerausgeberIn), Moore, Kathleen Dean (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Albany, NY State Univ. of New York Press c 2008
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics
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Zusammenfassung:A legacy of activism and advocacy -- One patriot / Terry Tempest Williams -- Rachel Carson's scientific and ocean legacies / Jane Lubchenco -- Rachel Carson and George J. Wallace : why public environmental scientists should be advocates for nature / Peter C. List -- Ethics on land and at sea -- Rachel Carson's environmental ethics / Philip Cafaro -- Thinking like a mackerel : Rachel Carson's Under the sea-wind as a source for a trans-ecotonal sea ethic / Susan Power Bratton -- The conceptual foundations of Rachel Carson's sea ethic / J. Baird Callicott and Elyssa Back -- Rachel Carson's The sea around us, ocean-centrism, and a nascent ocean ethic / Gary Kroll -- Reflections on gender and science -- The ecological body : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and breast cancer / Lisa H. Sideris -- Science and spirit : struggles of the early Rachel Carson / Maril Hazlett -- "Silence, miss Carson!" : science, gender, and the reception of Silent spring / Michael Smith -- An ongoing toxic discourse -- After Silent spring : ecological effects of pesticides on public health and on birds and other organisms / David Pimentel -- Contested icons : Rachel Carson and DDT / Steve Maguire -- In her footsteps / Christopher Merrill -- Living downstream of Silent spring / Sandra Steingraber -- A legacy of wonder -- The secular and religious sources of Rachel Carson's sense of wonder / Lisa H. Sideris -- How to value a flower : locating beauty in toxic landscapes / Vera Norwood -- The truth of the barnacles : Rachel Carson and the moral significance of wonder / Kathleen Dean Moore
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:IX, 287 S.
24 cm
ISBN:0791474712
0-7914-7471-2
0791474720
0-7914-7472-0
9780791474716
978-0-7914-7471-6
9780791474723
978-0-7914-7472-3