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- Langston, Nancy
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Mining the boreal North
- 2013
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In: American Scientist. - : Sigma Xi. - 0003-0996 .- 1545-2786. ; 102:2, s. 98-102
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Langston, Nancy
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Rachel Carson's Legacy : Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Gender Concerns
- 2012
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In: GAIA. - 0940-5550 .- 2625-5413. ; 21:3, s. 225-229
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ignited a controversy over synthetic chemical residues, which illustrates several important elements of gender in Carson's legacy. First, Carson's approaches in Silent Spring challenged traditional gender stereotypes. Second, the reception to Silent Spring reveals assumptions about gender that influenced the ways in which Carson's critics understood human and environmental health. Finally, endocrine disrupting chemicals had the potential to disrupt sexual differentiation in exposed animals. Two of Carson's core insights-the transgenerational effects of synthetic chemicals and the ecological context of human health-have continuing relevance for understanding the environmental and human health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals.
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- Mårald, Erland, 1970-, et al.
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Changing ideas in forestry : A comparison of concepts in Swedish and American forestry journals during the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- 2016
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In: Ambio. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 45, s. 74-86
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- By combining digital humanities text-mining tools and a qualitative approach, we examine changing concepts in forestry journals in Sweden and the United States (US) in the early twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our first hypothesis is that foresters at the beginning of the twentieth century were more concerned with production and less concerned with ecology than foresters at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Our second hypothesis is that US foresters in the early twentieth century were less concerned with local site conditions than Swedish foresters. We find that early foresters in both countries had broader—and often ecologically focused—concerns than hypothesized. Ecological concerns in the forestry literature have increased, but in the Nordic countries, production concerns have increased as well. In both regions and both time periods, timber management is closely connected to concerns about governance and state power, but the forms that governance takes have changed.
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