Twelve scholars examine some leading problems in environmental quality, analyze present situations and future prospects, and suggest what might be done about them.Originally published in 1966
Chapter 1 Resources Development and the Environment; The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth, Kenneth E. Boulding; Pressures of Growth Upon Environment, Harold J. Barnett; Chapter 2 Environment and Human Health; Promises and Hazards of Man’S Adaptrability, René Dubos; Mental Health in an Urban Society, Leonard J. Duhl; Chapter 3 Beyond the Market Mechanism; Side Effects of Resource Use, Ralph Turvey; Some Problems of Criteria and Acquiring Information, Roland N. McKean; Chapter 4 Economic Research in Problems of Environment; Research Goals and Progress Toward Them, Allen V. Kneese; Welfare Economics and the Environment, M. Mason Gaffney; Chapter 5 Public Attitudes on Environmental Quality; Formation and Role of Public Attitudes, Gilbert F. White; Assumptions Behind the Public Attitudes, David Lowenthal; Chapter 6 Needed Improvements in Policies and Institutions; New Tasks for all Levels of Government, Norton E. Long; Some New Machinery to Help do the Job, Jacob H. Beuscher;
