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Subject(s)

• Environmental policy—United States [Browse]

Compiler

• McClellan, Grant S. [Browse]

Series

• Reference shelf ; v. 42, no. 1. [More in this series]
• Reference shelf ; v. 42, no. 1 [More in this series]

Summary note

Deals with global as well as specifically American aspects of the pollution problem and American and international attempt to protect the environment.

Notes

The contributors to this volume examine the global aspects of pollution problems as well as American environmental issues such as air and water pollution. They also consider the national measures being undertaken to deal with the conservation of our natural resources, as well as foreign and international attempts to protect man's environment.

Bibliographic references

Bibliography: p. 211-218.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• I. Our Endangered Planet
• Polluting our Planet / David Perlman, Look
• The atomic age environment / Lord Ritchie-Calder, Center Magazine
• Our endangered country / Gaylord A. Nelson, Progressive
• II. An Atmosphere For Living
• Air polution / Daniel Brieht, America
• Is Pollution altering the weather? [climate change] / Eric Aynsley, New Scientist
• Pollution and nuclear reactors / Victor Cohn, Washington Post
• Automobiles and antipollution measures / Laura Fermi, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
• Phasing out DDT / New York Times
• Noise pollution, a health hazard / William H. Stewart, Trial
• Pervasive noise pollution / Donald F. Anthrop, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
• Air pollution, a nationwide survey / Gladwin Hill, New York Times.
• III. Rescuing out water resources
• America's polluted waterways / Wolfgang Langewiesche, Reader's Digest
• Lake Erie, a dying lake? / Peter Schrag, Saturday Review
• Controlling the Great Lakes Pollution / Harold B. Gotaas, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
• Oil pollution of the oceans / Julian McCaull, Environment
• Toward a water pollution policy / Charles B. McCoy
• IV. A Land to Live in
• America's endangered landscape / Life
• Our threatened wilderness lands / Donald Jackson, Life
• The assault on the Everglades / Anthony Wolff, Look
• Population and landscape / James Nathan Miller, Reader's Digest
• Our growing trash heaps / Edwin A. Roberts Jr., National Observer
• Eliminating all waste / Neal Stanford, Christian Science Monitor.
• V. What can be done?
• Consumers and health services / Charles C. Johnson, Jr.
• Food and drug services / Herbert L. Ley, Jr.
• Air Pollution Control Administration / John T. Middleton
• Environmental Control Administration / Chris A. Hansen
• A critique of federal action / Luther J. Carter, Science
• Education for conservation / Luther J. Carter, Science
• Taxation as a weapon against pollution / Irston R. Barnes, Washington Post
• Costs of cleaning up pollution / Charles Sackrey
• Can the courts help? / Richard S. Jacobson
• Establishment of Council of Environmental Advisors / Richard M. Nixon [President]
• Sweden's antipollution program / Daniel S. Greenberg, Science
• United Nations efforts to protect our environment / International Conciliation.

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ISBN

0824204093

LCCN

^^^72095636^

OCLC

79635

RCP

H - S

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