The Ecologist

Vol. 2 No. 5 May 1972

The Ecologist is printed on recycled paper

Michael Allaby

Editorial What is health ? 3

Friends of the Earth

Melvin A. Benarde

Gerald Foley

P. F. Rogers

Pamela Lewis

Michael Allaby

Doris Grant

Feature articles

Rock-bottom: nearing the limits of Metal-mining in Britain 4

The Ecology of Health and Disease 20

For a mess of motorways 24 A Blueprint for Survival: Comments from Michael Tracy, Prof. Carroll L. Wilson, Paul Derrick, Ralph Coward, Mrs. G. R. Gardener 27 Reports

A guide to courses in human ecology 30 National Association for environmental education Newsletter 3l

Countdown; Family Planning's International Campaign 31

Bugging the bugs 32

A recipe for survival 33

Nicholas Gould

Lawrence D. Hills

Columns

Gulliver in Automobilia The author discusses the conquest of air 35

Down to earth The wind is free 36

Books 37 Feedback 39 Letters 40

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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