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Our Environmental Hopes for 1985–86

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Stanley P. Johnson
Affiliation:
Directorate-General for Environment, Consumer Protection and Nuclear Safety Commission of the EEC, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Martin W. Holdgate
Affiliation:
Departments of Environment & Transport 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 3EB England, UK.
Asit K. Biswas
Affiliation:
International Society for Ecological Modelling 76 Woodstock Close Oxford 0X2 8DD England, UK.
Duncan Poore
Affiliation:
International Institute for Environment & Development 3 Endsleigh Street London WC1H ODD England, UK.
Bent Juel-Jensen
Affiliation:
Medical Officer to the University St Cross College Oxford 0X1 3LZ England, UK
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Abstract

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Multi-Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1985

References

* We might add that something like a further 1% a year is being grossly disrupted though not destroyed outright.—Ed.

A referee comments ‘… less than 10% of all tropical forests are growing on sorls that can support agriculture of conventional sorts with present levels of technology. The myth that they constitute a potential ‘bread basket’ of the future should be stoutly dismissed by [Environmental Conservation]!’—Ed.