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Books on: ddt and toxicity

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Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica: Learning the Lessons in a Seasonal Dry Forest

Book by Gordon W. Frankie, Alfonso Mata, S. Bradleigh Vinson; University of California Press, 2004

Subjects:

Biological Diversity Conservation--Costa Rica, Forest Ecology--Costa Rica

Collections: Entire Library

"The lessons and recommendations throughout the book, and especially those in the last chapter, are forceful and risk-taking. It will be read and discussed at the highest levels."--Gail Hewson-Hull, Project Manager of Science Now, California Academy of Sciences
"This book is an excellent synthesis of ...
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"The lessons and recommendations throughout the book, and especially those in the last chapter, are forceful and risk-taking. It will be read and discussed at the highest levels."--Gail Hewson-Hull, Project Manager of Science Now, California Academy of Sciences
"This book is an excellent synthesis of the ecological basis of biodiversity conservation in the seasonally dry forest ecosystems of northwest Costa Rica, as well as a valuable analysis of the effectiveness of conservation efforts in a country renowned for its global leadership in protecting and inventorying biological diversity."--Gary S. Hartshorn, President and CEO, Organization for Tropical Studies "
"Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica "captures the mystique and realities of land and wildlife conservation in one of the world's most fascinating and threatened systems. The authors blend the scientific, social, political, and legal into a commanding, optimistic treatment of the ongoing evolution of the human-nature experience."--Justin O. Schmidt, Southwestern Biological Institute
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Aquatic Pollution: An Introductory Text

Book by Edward A. Laws; Wiley, 2000

Subjects:

Water--Pollution

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...restrictions on the use of the pesticide DDT in the United States have resulted in...dramatic successes achieved by spraying DDT to control mosquitoes have never been repeated...mosquitoes have de- veloped resistance to DDT and many other pesticides, and no alternative...
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Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment

Book by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren; W. H. Freeman, 1977

Subjects:

Human Ecology, Pollution, Population

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Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment

Book by Ted Schettler; MIT Press, 2000

Subjects:

Reproductive Toxicology

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"Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals, physicians, environmental educators, and ...
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"Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals, physicians, environmental educators, and policy advocates, this book examines how scientific, social, economic, and political systems may fail to protect us from environmental and occupational toxicants. It is an important sourcebook for those concerned about their own health and that of their loved ones, as well as for medical and public health workers, community activists, policymakers, and industrial decision makers.
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The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environment Risk Assessment

Book by Indur M. Goklany; Cato Institute, 2001

Subjects:

Environmental Risk Assessment

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Goklany argues that selective application of this principle distorts the policy debate.

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Journal Articles on: ddt and toxicity

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DDT and Breast Cancer in Young Women: New Data on the Significance of Age at Exposure

Journal article by Barbara A. Cohn, Mary S. Wolff, Piera M. Cirillo, Robert I. Sholtz; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, 2007

Subjects:

Age factors in disease--Evaluation, Breast cancer--Risk factors, Cancer research--Reports, Cancer--Reports, Cancer--Research, DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, DDT--Health aspects, Disease age factors--Evaluation, Oncology, Experimental--Reports

Collections: Entire Library

...cohorts. Possible mechanisms. Direct toxicity of p,p-DDT, induction of enzymes that produce...cells with in vivo investigations of toxicity in blood samples collected from...tested in vitro exceeded levels of DDT-related compounds observed in vivo...
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The Regulation of DDT: A Choice between Evils

Journal article by Ashley K. Martin; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 41, 2008

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Laws, regulations and rules, DDT--Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Malaria--Control

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...essentially results in mere risk transformation. (97) Organochlorides, the chemicals that replace DDT, have more immediate and significant risks of toxicity, which are exaggerated by users unfamiliarity with them. (98) The number of accidental pesticide...
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Irreversible Binding and Adrenocorticolytic Activity of the DDT Metabolite 3-Methylsulfonyl-DDE Examined in Tissue-Slice Culture

Journal article by Orjan Lindhe, Bert-Ove Lund, Ake Bergman, Ingvar Brandt; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, 2001

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...adrenal cortex, DDT, endocrine disrupters...tissue-slice culture, toxicity. Environ Health Perspect...Metabolic activation and toxicity of a DDT-metabolite, 3-methylsulphonyl-DDE...Lund B-O, Brandt I. Toxicity and irreversible binding of two DDT-metabolites -3-methylsulfonyl-DDE...
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Prenatal DDT Exposure in Relation to Anthropometric and Pubertal Measures in Adolescent Males

Journal article by Beth C. Gladen, Mark A. Klebanoff, Mary L. Hediger, Solomon H. Katz, Dana B. Barr, Mark D. Davis, Matthew P. Longnecker; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004

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...breakdown products are ubiquitous in the environment and in humans. Compounds in the DDT family have endocrine actions and have been associated with reproductive toxicity. A previous study reported associations between prenatal exposure to p,p-DDE 1,1-dichloro...
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Reproductive Effects of Occupational DDT Exposure among Male Malaria Control Workers

Journal article by Felix Garcia-Salazar, Esperanza Gallardo-Diaz, Prudencia Ceron-Mireles, Dana Loomis, Victor H. Borja-Aburto; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004

Subjects:

Agriculture, Birth defects, Workers' compensation

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...effectiveness but also because of its low cost and lack of acute toxicity to sprayers and exposed populations compared with alternative chemical pesticides. Although the ban on DDT use provoked a serious debate (Schofield 2001; Walker 2000), the...

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Magazine Articles on: ddt and toxicity

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Better Living through Chemistry: DDT Could Save Millions of Africans from Dying of Malaria-If Only Environmentalists Would Let It

Magazine article by Alexander Gourevitch; Washington Monthly, Vol. 35, March 2003

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, DDT (Insecticide)--Usage, Malaria--Safety and security measures

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...developed resistance to the toxicity of DDT, it still acted as a repellent...Not a single study linking DDT exposure to human toxicity has ever been replicated. In...the years postulating human toxicity in DDT exposure turned out to be cases...
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Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT: The Toxic War against a Global Disease

Magazine article by Anne Platt Mcginn; World Watch, Vol. 15, May 2002

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Usage, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquitoes--Control, Pesticides--Usage

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...in the higher links of the food chain. And since DDT has a high chronic toxicity--that is, longterm exposure is likely to cause...eradication campaign didnt worry much about the toxicity of DDT, but they were greatly concerned about another...
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One Cheer for DDT? Forty Years after Silent Spring, Resurgent Malaria Gives New Life to an Old Killer

Magazine article by Stephen Bocking; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 30, September 2004

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Laws, regulations and rules, DDT--Laws, regulations and rules, Malaria--Causes of, Pesticides--Influence, Pesticides--Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides--Risk factors

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...common reaction to evidence of toxicity. Environmentalists usually like...when many countries banned DDT, ending an era when the stuff...experts argue that a global ban of DDT would be more dangerous than...dozen," it made one exception: DDT. amp;#91;ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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Africa's Other Deadly Plague: Malaria Kills One Child under Age 5 Every 30 Seconds. DDT Stops the Disease, but Environmentalists Still Oppose It, despite That Controlled Use Seems Harmless to Humans

Magazine article by Tom Carter; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, August 5, 2002

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, Infants--Mortality, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquitoes--Biological control

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...many birds, people assumed it had to be bad for humans as well, even if scientific evidence of human toxicity never entered the equation. In 1972, DDT was banned in the United States. Today, advocates of limited DDT use in the battle against malaria...
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Phasing out PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

Magazine article by Anne Platt Mcginn; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, September 2000

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, DDT--Health aspects, Dioxin--Health aspects, Dioxins--Health aspects, Pollutants--Analysis, Polychlorinated biphenyls--Health aspects, United States--Environmental aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...The challenge is to eliminate DDT from agricultural use while...industrial nations has declined, the toxicity has increased 10- to 100-fold...POPs from other chemicals--high toxicity, bioaccumulation, persistence...times higher concentrations of DDT per gram of fat than the zooplankton...

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Newspaper Articles on: ddt and toxicity

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DDT: Malaria's Answer in Africa? 2 Million Die Each Year from Disease

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 16, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...people assumed it had to be bad for humans as well, even if scientific evidence of human toxicity never entered the equation. So pervasive was the anti-DDT hysteria, that the public outcry is often cited as the beginning of modern environmental...
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Get It All out of Your System

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 26, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...chemicals and parasites, viruses and bacteria that can all cause toxicity. Toxins are introduced not just through the gut, but also through...harmful substance it just doesnt know how to deal with - like DDT, for instance - it will either store this toxin on site or send...
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IS YOUR FAMILY TOXIC? Good Health: Like Most People, James Ferguson Never Worried about Chemicals in His Body, until He Became a Dad. Then, He and His Wife Were Tested for Toxins, with Alarming Results

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 22, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...organochlorines in different ways. Toxicity depends on an individuals DNA...blizzard of yet more acronyms - DDT, DDE, HCB, PCBs, p-Dichlorobenzene...newborn babys diet contained DDT, DDD, DDE, HCB, PCBs, PBB (BDE...Yet some of these chemicals, DDT among them, had been banned...
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No Incentive to Spend a Penny

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), May 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...anyone has died or even been disabled from having traces of DDT in the bloodstream. She has reached the age of 67 and seems...effective insect poisons which rival commercial versions in toxicity. It has been estimated that for every gram of synthetic pesticides...
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Salad and Fish 'Harbouring Pesticides'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 16, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...hazardous by the World Health Organisation due to its acute toxicity. It is not permitted in the UK. The PRC said the amount of...salmon from the UK which were labelled organic both contained DDT, according to the report. The report also found a jar of Heinz...

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