Environment and Society in Transition: World PrioritiesBoris Pregel, Harold Dwight Lasswell, John McHale American Division of the World Academy of Art and Science, New York Academy of Sciences, 1975 - Social Science - 277 pages Conference report on international environmental and social change trends and on the priorities for international cooperation in formulating future development policies - includes interdisciplinary research papers on such issues as the quality of life, international economic structures, world population and food security, etc. References and statistical tables. Conference held in new york 1974 may 6 to 11. |
Contents
Inauguration of the Conference By BOPIS PREGEL | 3 |
Social Indicators By MICHIO NAGAI | 15 |
Theory and Application By JAN TINBERGEN | 25 |
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action activities agriculture appraisal areas assumptions basic behavior capita Club of Rome coal committee concerned Conference context Convention costs decision demand developed countries distribution effects electricity environment environmental example exclusive field fossil fuels function future global goals governments groups human survival impact important income increase individual industrial institutions international law involved Japan John McHale kcal limited major ment monetary natural nuclear fusion nuclear power official OPEC organizations percent perspective planning political pollution population possible potential present problems production projections public order question radioactive wastes rates reactors recent recommendations regions relation Report responsibility scientific social society structure supply Supra note tall building tion tional trends UNEP United Nations University uranium world community world energy world order world priorities World War II York