Silent Spring at 50 (eBook, ePUB)

The False Crises of Rachel Carson
Redaktion: Meiners, Roger; Morriss, Andrew; Desrochers, Pierre

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book's historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. Their findings: much of what Carson presented as fact was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cato Institute
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781937184193
• Artikelnr.: 38419372

Autorenporträt

Roger E. Meiners is chairman of the department of economics at the University of Texas at Arlington and a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT. Pierre Desrochers is associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto and senior research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. Andrew P. Morriss is professor of law and business at the University of Alabama and a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT.