The Ecologist

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Feature articles

Dr Aubrey Manning No standing room Population control for Britain ? 1 Prof. R. Lindsay Robb Medicine and agriculture Is a merger needed? 11 Peter Bunyard Is there a peaceful atom? The ravages of radiation 15 Edward Goldsmith Bringing order to chaos Cybernetics, society and the ecosystem 20 Michael Allaby One jump ahead of Malthus Can we avoid a world famine ? 24 Robert Allen Eskimo knell The Alaskan oil boom and the Eskimo 29

Reports The giant awakes . . . slowly 33 Environmental research in Wales 34 Environmental stress and heart disease 36 New voice for the Southern Sudan 37

Comments The worship of artifacts 39 The vulnerability of our technological environment 39 Food, farmers and finance 40 Should man live longer? 46 Who's to blame? 46 Ships that pass in the night 46

Columns

Lawrence D. Hills Down to earth 14 Wayne Davis Gargoyle 28

Books 41 Letters 47 Coming events 6

Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Assistant editor: Robert Allen; Managing editor: Brian W. W. Welsh; Contributing editors: Michael Allaby, Peter Bunyard, jean Liedloff; Art and Production director: Ronald Gibbons, M.S.I.A.D.; Research: Charles Maclean. Editorial copy and enquiries should be addressed to The Editor, The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone: 01-948 0690 Published by Ecosystems Ltd., registered office 11 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, London, W1M 0AH and distributed by the New English Library (Magazine Division), Barnards Inn, Holborn, London, E.C.I. Printed by the Garden City Press Ltd., Pixmore Avenue, Letchworth, Hertfordshire.

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