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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
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Silent Spring, an International Best Seller | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 8 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
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About the exhibition | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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“The people had done it themselves” | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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Trade-offs | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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Epidemics and ecology | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Arcadia
How Birds Became Europeans: Bird Protection Activists Cooperating across Borders for Supranational Protection
In April 1979, the European Communities (EC) adopted the Council Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds (79/409/EEC), the so-called “Birds Directive.”
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"Listening to Birds in the Anthropocene: The Anxious Semiotics of Sound in a Human-Dominated World"
Andrew Whitehouse considers the semiotics of listening to birds in the Anthropocene by drawing on Kohn’s recent arguments on the semiotics of more-than-human relations and Ingold’s understanding of the world as a meshwork, and comparing the work of Bernie Krause with responses to the the Listening to Birds project.
Arcadia
Sight and Sound: Beyond the Huia Extinction Story
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.
Arcadia
Mumbai’s Doongerwadi Forest: Revisiting the Death of Nature in the Future City
This article explores the past and future of one of Mumbai’s largest city forests.