Vol. 2 No. 9 September 1972

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Basil Greenhill

Charles C. Hughes and John M. Hunter

R. A. Gould

Philip Brachi

Michael Allaby

Michael Allaby

David L . Greenstock

Anthony Redding

L . B. Powell

Nicholas Gould

Lawrence D. Hills

Editorial Stepping on Epping

Feature articles Natural resources and the environment Parliamentary debate

The sailing ship in a fuel crisis

Development and disease in Africa

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Progress to oblivion

A Blueprint for Survival: Comments from Prof. D. Bryce-Smith and O. Barraclough

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Reports

Japan's GNP—growing, growing, gone!

Organic farming in America

Pigging it

Bird sanctuary destroyed

Wasting time

Cowley Wood Nature Reserve

Classified advertisements

Columns

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Gulliver in Automobilia Concerning Scientists

Down to earth Breath of life

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Friends of the Earth

Books

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Feedback 39

Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Deputy Editor: Robert Allen; Managing Editor: Michael Allaby; Associate editors: Peter Bunyard, John Davoll, Jimoh Omo Fadaka, Gerald Foley, Lawrence D. Hills, Brian Johnson, S. G. Lawrence, Jean Liedloff, Charles Maclean, John Papworth, Robert Waller. Production and design by The Soil Association. Administration: Joyce Robson. Editorial copy and advertising enquiries should be sent to The Editor, The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone 01-948 0690.

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