Rural Hoosier homemakers have long negotiated the tensions of competing priorities and demands on their farms: clean and pure households, robust and profitable fields, and the health of their families. Agricultural experts have stressed the benefits of using pesticides to help achieve all three of these aspects of farm life, while public health adv...
After being defined as the word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford dictionary, the post-truth has aroused the attention of researchers interested in understanding the origin of this phenomenon and its political and social implications nowadays and in the future. In stating that the post-truth is “relative to, or denotes circumstances in which object...
Published in Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Glyphosate has become the most commonly used herbicide worldwide and is reputedly environmentally benign, nontoxic, and safe for use near wildlife and humans. However, studies indicate its toxicity is underestimated and its persistence in the environment is greater than once thought. Its actions as a neurotoxin and endocrine disruptor indicate its ...
This article analyses the reception of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' (1962) in Dutch and Flemish popular periodicals. To date it has been commonly assumed that the journalistic reception of 'Silent Spring' in the Low Countries was largely favourable, thus familiar to its reception in the United States. This assumption is examined in this article ...
東京水産大学共通講座 / 聖心女子大学外国語外国文学英文学科
