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Environmental Abstracts

The Challenge of Global warming, Dean Edward Abrahamson, (ed). (Washington DC: Island Press, 1989), 339pp.

The Challenge of Global warming is a careful examination of the causes, effects and political responses to global warming. It is a collection of free-standing works by multiple authors.

Toward Pollution-free Manufacturing, (Washington, D.C.: The Institute for Local Self- Reliance, 1986), 120 pp.

Toward Pollution-free Manufacturing is a practical examination of the Standard Industrial Codes which apply to manufacturing wastes.

Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet, Richard Elliot Benedick, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 1991), 293pp. This work was published in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund; The Conservation Foundation; and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University.

Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet is an examination of the history, scientific description and moves toward solution of ozone depletion.

Washington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air, Richard E. Cohen, (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992), 180pp.

Washington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air is an examination of the political dimension of environmental problems; specifically air quality. The work specifically addresses the years of the Reagan and Bush presidencies.

Pollution and Public Policy: A Book of Readings, ed. David F. Paulsen and Robert B. Denhardt, (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973), 251pp.

Pollution and Public Policy: A Book of Readings is an examination of the relationship between environmental policy-making and the public policy process with specific consideration of both air and water pollution.

Computer Models in Environmental Planning, Steven I. Gordon, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985), 217 pp.

Computer Models in Environmental Planning is an examination of: Water Quality models, storm runoff models, and air pollution models. The author also addresses the evaluation of land uses and hazardous waste management.

Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation, Karen T. Litfin, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 245pp.

Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation is an examination of the role of scientific knowledge in both world politics and the role of power in scientific knowledge. This work also explores the role of such knowledge in the Montreal Protocol and in efforts to mitigate the ozone problem.

The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change, Ian H. Rowlands, (New York: Manchester University Press, 1995), 267 pp.

The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change is an examination of the political nature of the theoretical and scientific bases for the concept of atmospheric change. It offers a chronology of the politics of ozone layer depletion and climate change. It also examines the equity of these two issues in a comparison of the contributions to both climate change and ozone layer depletion made by Northern and Southern nations.

After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State, Cass R. Sunstein, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), 273 pp.

After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State is an examination of the regulatory state which has arisen as a result of the increase in statutory rights which were not explicitly addressed in the original Constitution or Bill of Rights of the United States. Specifically addressed are rights to: clean air and water, safe consumer products and workplaces, and civil rights, among others.

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