The other side of silence: Rachel Carson's views of animals

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 186-200

  Bekoff, Marc ^a   Nystrom, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

And No Birds Sing; Animal rights; Animal welfare; Conservation biology; DDT; Environmentalism; Lost Woods; Pesticides; Rachel Carson; Silent Spring

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 4444270271     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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