The Ecologist

Vol. 1. No. 9 March 1971

Editorial Crosland on growth

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/. David George

Sir Ashley Clarke

Eugene P. Odum

G. W. Dimbleby

Robert Allen

Lawrence D. Hills

Edward Goldsmith

Graham Searle

Arthur J. Puffett

Feature articles

Can the seas survive? Long-term effects of pollution on marine life

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Need Venice disappear? How and why floods threaten Venice

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The optimum population for Georgia Factors that must be considered 14

The Ancient and Ornamental Woods of the New Forest

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Reports

Cheaper cures without antibiotics • Killer whales • Biocontrol in agriculture: 1

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Columns

Ecopolitics New Forest emergency

Down to earth Fight the gravel grabbers

Towards a unified science Facts and Hypotheses—a false dichotomy

Student action The NUS project. The Hammersmith Study Group

Ecotechnics Philips engaged in Stirling work

Feedback

Oil v. Eskimos • Wild woodmen in Weald • Abortion centres needed • Defence land to be reviewed • Waste reform • Pesticides act on pesticides in fish • Nerve gas mislaid • Undue editorial interference? • Ecomurder • Pesticide's long-term persistence in soil • Pouring money on troubled oil • Recycling batteries • More on mercury • Ecological guidebook for development • Farming's "disturbing failure" • Chiltern route stands • Hen-pecked • Beware the yellow-bellied sea-snake

Books

The population bomb—Population, Resources, Environment • The world of the gulls— Signals for Survival

Letters

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Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Deputy editor: Robert Allen; Associate editors: Michael Allaby, Francis Arnold, Peter Bunyard, Jean Liedloff. Production and design by The Soil Association. Editorial copy and enquiries should be sent to The Editor, The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone: 01-948 0690. Advertising enquiries should be sent to Mrs Valerie A. E. Ingersoll, Hexagon Publishing Co. Ltd., Martin House, 84/86 Grays Inn Road, London WC1. Telephone: 01-405 4581/2/3.

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