Beyond Silent Spring: Integrated pest management and chemical safety by H.F. van Emden

by Helmut F. van Emden

The 1962 edition publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring generated unprecedented concern about the environmental and health problems associated with two decades of widespread use of synthetic pesticides. Over thirty years later, Beyond Silent Spring provides a comprehensive distillation of current views on the issues it raised. With heightened international concern for the environment, and increased emphasis on the need for an integrated approach to the use and control of chemicals, this volume also provides an invaluable review of the successes and limitations of recent regimes of pest and polluting chemical management.

Hardcover

First published June 30, 1996

About the author

Helmut Fritz van Emden

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is exactly what I wanted: an overview of how the issues detailed in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had changed since that book was published. I will likely skip over much of the part detailing how IPM works, as I'm more interested in the harmful effects of chemicals on the environment than pest control in agriculture (although I am interested in that to some extent), but overall the book has taught me much of what I had hoped it would.

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an incredibly valuable book: it both acknowledged and questions Carson's Silent spring, and re valuates the text that "started the environmental movement." I believe that if you read Silent Spring you must also read this book.