Roger Meiners

Silent Spring at 50: the False Crises of Rachel Carson Roger Meiners

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: 1. Silent Spring at 50 -- 2. The Lady Who Started all this -- 3. The Intellectual Groundwaters of Silent Spring: Rethinking Rachel Carson's Place in the History of American Environmental Thought -- 4. Silent Spring as Secular Religion -- 5. The Selective Silence of Silent Spring: Birds, Pesticides, and Alternatives to Pesticides -- 6. Rachel Carson's Health Scare -- 7. The Balance of Nature and The Other Road: Ecological Paradigms and the Management Legacy of Silent Spring -- 8. Did Rachel Carson Understand the Importance of DDT in Global Public Health Programs? -- 9. Agricultural Revolutions and Agency Wars: How the 1950s Laid the Groundwork for Silent Spring -- 10. The False Promise of Federalization -- 11. The Precautionary Principle: Silent Spring's Toxic Legacy -- 12. Risk Over-Simplified: The Enduring and Unfortunate Legacy of Silent Spring -- Notes -- Index -- Contributors. Biographical Note: 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. Morrissis professor of law and business at the University of Alabama and a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT." Review Citations: Choice 04/01/2013 (EAN 9781937184995, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Meiners, Roger Roger Meiners is the Goolsby Distinguised Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Texas at Arlington and a senior fellow at the Property and Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. Contributor Bio:  Morriss, Andrew Andrew Morriss is D. Paul Jones Jr. and Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and is a senior fellow at the Property and Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 book chapters, scholarly articles, and books.