"This book is an abridgment of Environment and society in transition." Includes bibliographies.
Contents:
[4.] The Timetable Project / Recent advancements in astronomy and space sciences / John McHale. A physicist looks at geographical and environmental problems / Serge A. Korff -- The big view / Richard W. Porter -- The environmental consequences of man's quest for food / Lester R. Brown -- [1.] Biological and medical sciences: On re-doing man / Kurt Hirschhorn -- Potential of applied microbiology / Carl-Göran Hedén -- The world we will live in / Jonas Salk -- Why fertility control? / Hudson Hoagland -- Control of population: numbers / John B. Calhoun -- Civilizational conditions of proliferative diseases / Julian Aleksandrowicz -- [2.] Physical sciences and engineering: Recent advances in chemical sciences / Ernst D. Bergmann -- Production and disposal of wastes: social consequences -policy implications / Jacob Feld -- Psychological adaptation in a world of programmed machines / Robert Cancro -- Recent advances in energy systems / Francis Perrin -- [3.] Anthropology, sociology, and psychology: The expansion of scientific knowledge / Derek J. de Solla Price -- Cultural relativism and premarital sex norm: research bases for moral decision / Harold T. Christensen -- On the state of psychology / Gardner Murphy -- Education: balancing conditioned response and responsible claims / Ralph W. Tyler -- Anthropology today / Margaret Mead -- [4.] Economics, political science, and law: Legal bases for securing the integrity of the Earth-space environment / Myres S. McDougal -- World production and its distribution / Josué de Castro -- From economic to socioeconomic development / Jan Tinbergen -- Policy sciences: developments and implications / Yehezkel Dror -- The Timetable Project / John McHale.
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