Research Catalog

Title

Pollution in the air: problems, policies and priorities [by] R.S. Scorer.

Author

Scorer, R. S. (Richard Segar), 1919-

Publication

London, Boston, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.

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Details

Description

viii, 148 pages; 22 cm.

Subject

• Air > Pollution
• Air Pollution
• air pollution
• Luftverschmutzung

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

THE NEED FOR AIR POLLUTION: An atmosphere of pollution -- The lifeless planets -- The living atmosphere -- What are smogs? -- The expansion of water pollution -- The destruction of species -- Sulphur: food or poison? -- Our need of air pollution -- CLEANSING THE AIR: The residence time -- Where is most of the pollution removed? -- The four layers of the atmosphere -- Chemical transformations -- Smogs -- Fluorosis -- Natural pollution of clean air -- THE FURTHER EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL MAN: The evolutionary situation -- Evolution before our eyes -- The place of conservation -- The distant vision -- The immediate need -- LOCAL AIR POLLUTION: Effects of pollution on local climate -- The advantages of the climate of large cities -- The effects of local climate on pollution -- Meteorological control -- The creation of disaster potential -- A THEORY OF ANTI-POLLUTION LAW: The liberating purpose of a theory -- Do we need any new anti-pollution laws? -- The avoidance of disaster potential -- Prohibitive legislation backed up by penalties -- Air quality standards: a crime? -- The 'best practicable means': the 1956 Clean Air Act in Britain -- Pricing pollution -- The polluter must pay -- New technology: our inability to take advantage of it -- The mood of revolution -- Scaring the public: lead, carbon monoxide, cigarettes, mercury, DDT, SSTs, 'Wolf!', 'Fire!' 'Help!' -- Is international agreement necessary? -- THE CULTIVATION OF THE WORLD: Was Malthus right after all? -- Who is this Man? -- The atmosphere above all -- What men believe about themselves -- MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH: To be or not to be -- The cul-de-sac and the trailer -- New criteria -- A summary of objectives -- Vultures and lions -- Science and the obvious -- Is there a simple message? -- Brass tax -- The nuclear age.

ISBN

• 0710075693
• 9780710075697

LCCN

73075215

OCLC

• ocm00689922
• 689922
• SCSB-153447

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library