Main entry:

International Joint Conference on Environment and Society in Transition (1st : 1970 : New York, N.Y.)

Title & Author:

Environment and society in transition : scientific developments, social consequences, policy implications.

Publication:

New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1971.

Description:

699 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.

Series:

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. 184

Notes:
Papers of the International Joint Conference of the American Geographical Society and the American Division of the World Academy of Art and Science, Apr. 27-May 2, 1970.
Editors: P. Albertson and M. Barnett.
Recent advances in astronomy and space sciences / A.G.W. Cameron -- A physicist looks at geographical and environmental problems / Serge A. Korff -- The big view / Richard W. Porter -- Future scientific events in human biometeorology / Solco W. Tromp -- The environmental consequences of man's quest for food / Lester R. Brown -- The environment doctor / Willard F. Libby -- The development of seismology from Biblical times to 1970 / J. Joseph Lynch -- Recent advances in astrophysics / Lloyd Motz -- Approaches and prospects for the control of age-dependent deterioration / Johan Bjorksten -- On re-doing man / Kurt Hirschhorn -- Potential of applied microbiology / Carl-Göran Hedén -- The world we will live in / Jonas Salk -- Why fertility control? / Hudson Hoagland -- Control of population : numbers / John B. Calhoun -- Control of population growth and family planning / Yusuf Ali Eraj -- Superspecialization : the trend and its impact on American medicine / N. Henry Moss -- Civilizational conditions of proliferative diseases / Julian Aleksandrowicz -- Recent advances in chemical sciences / Ernst Bergmann -- Production and disposal of wastes : social consequences -- policy implications / Jacob Feld -- Social implications of the computer / Herman H. Goldstine -- The chemical sciences / Minoru Tsutsui -- Water and energy 50 years from now / Léopold Escande -- Psychological adaptation in a world of programmed machines / Robert Cancro -- Computing in the semantic domain / Heinz von Foerster -- Recent advances in energy systems / Francis Perrin -- The expansion of scientific knowledge / Derek de Solla Price -- Youth and population / Emily H. Mudd -- Cultural relativism and premarital sex norms : research bases for moral decision / Harold T. Christensen -- On the state of psychology / Gardner Murphy -- Education : balancing conditioned response and responsible claims / Ralph W. Tyler -- Communications -- key to man's self-awareness / Henry R. Cassirer -- Anthropology in 1970 / Margaret Mead -- Objectivity in an international communicative system / Hugh Goitein -- New tasks for the United Nations -- the environment, population, space, and seabeds / Richard N. Gardner -- The administration of justice / Philip C. Jessup -- Legal bases for securing the integrity of the earth-space environment / Myres S. McDougal -- World production and its distribution / Josué de Castro -- From economic to socioeconomic development / Jan Tinbergen -- Policy sciences : developments and implications / Yehezkel Dror -- Economic and social strategies : expansion of scientific knowledge / Vincenzo Caglioti -- The timetable project / John McHale -- Discussions -- The World University program / Harold Lasswell, Hugo Boyko, chairmen ; Boris Pregel, John McHale, cochairmen -- An interim report on the conference / Harold Lasswell -- Discussion / Arne Tiselius -- The positive power of science / Glenn Seaborg -- Summary of the sense of the conference / Boris Pregel, chairman -- In conclusion : implementing conference objectives / Boris Pregel, Harold Lasswell and John McHale.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Of the sense of the conference / Boris Pregel, chairman -- In conclusion : implementing conference objectives / Boris Pregel, Harold Lasswell and John McHale.

Subject:

Science Congresses.
Science.
Sciences Congrès.
Sciences.
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
02.00 science and culture in general.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING.
CONFERENCES.
Environnement.
natuurbescherming
nature conservation
bescherming
protection
samenleving
society
natuur
nature
Nature Conservation
Natuurbescherming

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference publications.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Albertson, Peter, editor.
Barnett, Margery, editor.
American Geographical Society of New York.
World Academy of Art and Science. American Division.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 184.

Holdings:

Location: Library main price 268121
Call No.: BIB 200007
Status: Available