FIFTY ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF TIMELY IMPORTANCE

• Main Author: Libby, L. M.
• Other Authors: RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Air Pollution and Control; Water Pollution and Control; *AIR POLLUTION; *WATER POLLUTION; TRANSPORTATION; CLIMATE; HELIUM; OCEANS; DISPOSAL; CORRECTIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; DDT; ECHINODERMATA; ICE FOG; LEAD(METAL); URBAN PLANNING; WASTES(INDUSTRIAL); SEWAGE; RESPIRATORY DISEASES; CARBON DIOXIDE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; CARBON MONOXIDE; SUPERSONIC FLIGHT; MINING ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; *ENVIRONMENT; *OILS; *POLLUTION; *THERMAL POLLUTION; *ENVIRONMENTS; *SURVEYS; REVIEWS; LAW; WEATHER MODIFICATION; PETROLEUM PIPELINES; SMOG; STARFISHES; STRIP MINING; DOMES(STRUCTURAL FORMS); EUTROPHICATION; Arctic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0712722; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0712722

The paper surveys some of the most recognizable and pressing problems of the environment, and includes comments on them from the current literature. Topics include short articles on pollution involving SST and stratospheric air force planes, Heat, DDT, Airports, Design of satellite-city systems, Respiratory diseases and smog, Radioactive waste disposal methods, Constructive use of garbage, Indemnity payments by air polluters, Phosphorus in waste waters, Constructive use of sewage, Biologic effects of lead, Clean-up of fuel oil, Weather modification, Ocean pollution, Reuse of golf courses, graveyards, and railroad properties, City slums, Resources of continental shelves, Hot pipeline in arctic, Los Angeles and earthquakes, Weather and CO2, Dome over manhattan, Extermination genus rattus, Helium, Eutrophication, Law for pollution control, Atmospheric CO, Starfish and its control, Oil spills, Logging, Tundra lands, and Ice fog.