The Ecologist
Vol. 1. No. 7 January 1971
Editorial
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E. J. Mishan
Robin Williams
John Noble and Harry Rothman
Graham Searle
Lawrence D. Hills
Arthur Puffett
Feature articles
The economics of hope a leading economist questions the dogma of economic
growth
Birds of prey their aesthetic, scientific and ecological value
PCB The by-product of industry that has been identified only recently as a very
serious threat to our wildlife
Reports
Opencast clean-up • Europeans talk local government • The Baltic • The revolution to come
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Comments
Is all knowledge obtained by the senses ? ' The need for interdisciplinary explanations
Feedback
Smog for sale • Money to burn • Mad bomber strikes again • Suffolk bans detergents • Detergents kill rats • 50,000,000 victims ? • Even New Zealand • Blue skies and red dragonflies • New cancer threat • Where the answer lies • Ruckleshaus knuckle-rapper • High up the poll • Canned! • Fight like hell • Wishbone fulfilment • Doomster changes tune • Sternglass, loner • Death in the potting shed • Mr Clean's alter ego • Bugs v. bugs
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Columns
Student Action what can be done campus information
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Down to Earth conquering carrot fly
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Ecotechnics prevention of marine pollution • computers speed ecological studies 24
Books
Threatened atoll—Aldabra Alone • Gardener's friend—Pest Control Without Poisons • Sterile surface—Challenge for Survival
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Letters
Coming events
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Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Assistant editor: Robert Allen; Managing editor: Brian W. W. Welsh; Contributing editors: Michael Allaby, Peter Bunyard, Jean Liedloff; 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, W1M0AH 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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