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Peer reviewedRussell, Clifford S.; Landsberg, Hans H. – Science, 1971
Proposes and explicates a classification scheme of world environmental problems. Identifies research questions requiring answers. Physical-linkage effects, subdivided into global and regional problems, and social-linkage effects, subdivided into pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects, are each illustrated by examples. (AL)
Descriptors: Classification, Economics, Environment, Natural Resources
Peer reviewedAngino, Ernest E. – Science, 1977
Discusses problems relating to an international solution to the disposal of high-level radioactive waste problem. (SL)
Descriptors: Ecology, Environment, Nuclear Physics, Physics
Peer reviewedEhrlich, Paul R.; Holdren, John P. – Science, 1971
Discusses the interrelated crises in population growth, natural resources, and environmental quality. Major problems include population control, redirection of technology, closed resource cycles, equitable opportunity distribution and prosperity. Population growth is regarded as causing a disportionate world-wide negative environmental impact.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Environment, Environmental Influences, Living Standards
Peer reviewedCarter, Luther J. – Science, 1980
This article focuses on content of the United States' Department of State Study called the Global 2000 Report issued by the Carter Administration on July 24, 1980. The report discusses the present trends which will lead to a more crowded, more polluted world, vulnerable to disruption. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Energy, Environmental Influences
