Acid Deposition Environmental Economic And Policy Issues
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Author | : Donald Adams |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461583500 |
Concern about acid deposition, commonly referred to as acid rain, as a widespread pollution problem with severe ecological consequences has heightened public awareness. Many authorities fear that acid deposition may be the worst environmental crisis of our industrialized society because of both the global implications and possible widespread, irreversible damage to lakes, soils, and forested ecosystems. Neither state nor international boundaries are exempt from the transport and deposition of airborne pollutants resulting from local and distant emission sources. The dilemma and debate will continue as long as society requires fossil fuels for its energy needs without regard to emission constraints. This book started as a modest attempt to provide a status report on atmospheric transport, the chemical processes which produce acidifying agents, and resultant ecological and economic consequences. The materials in this book have been substantially revised from those presented at the conference in 1983. It became obvious that additional chapters were required when sudden and profound changes occurring in European forests were reported. It is felt that perhaps such damages could be an early warning to forested ecosystems in the northeastern United States and Canada as well as other places throughout the world. Most importantly, it is essential that gained scientific knowledge be translated into required legislation - a section on Policy Issues was incorporated to address these concerns. It is hoped that the reader will become informed and concerned enough to be involved in ll this IIglobal debate. Donald D. Adams Halter P.
Author | : Ernest J Yanarella |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000314472 |
This collection of essays by noted academicians, lawyers, energy agency administrators, and research analysts focuses on the political and legal aspects of the acid rain debate, the policy options for resolving the controversy, and the international dimensions of acid rain control. The contributors highlight concerns drawn primarily from the developing study of acid rain in political science, economics, public administration, and policy analysis--concerns that are the focal point of the public debate over the nature, impact, and cost of acid rain and the mitigation of its effects. The book complements the impressive body of research from the natural sciences and responds to the need for applied study to help resolve the current policy stalemate on this critical environmental issue. The Acid Rain Debate features a comprehensive annotated bibliography on acid rain and relevant social science research.
Author | : Gerald R. Visgilio |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2007-04-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387375627 |
This book is the result of a conference held biannually at the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on important ecological impacts of acid deposition. The book combines research findings and the policy analyses of experts from different academic disciplines with the positions advanced by representatives of various nongovernmental organizations.
Author | : Paulette Mandelbaum |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461583535 |
This volume, Proceedings of the Conference ACID RAIN: Economic Assessment, is meant to present the areas of agreement which economists have established and the uncertainties which they have discovered in their attempts to use the methodology of economics to better understand the nature of the acid rain issue. Scientific articles about acid rain initially appeared in 1972. The public turned its attention to the issue in the mid-1970s. In April 1979, the first acid rain bill was introduced in the Senate, authored by New York's Senator Daniel P. Moynihan. The bill sought to establish a federal research program dedicated to filling the gaps in understanding of the phenomena of long-range transport of air pollutants and their environmental, health and economic impacts. 'The bill was passed into law in 1980. Since then, tens of bills have been proposed to control emissions of S02 and NO , x thought to be the precursors of acid rain. And yet, in contrast with the pattern set by the majority of environmental issues, where legislation followed very quickly on the heels of public anxiety and involvement, by July 1985 not a single federal acid rain control bill had been passed.
Author | : Ontario. Ministry of the Environment. Policy and Planning Branch |
Publisher | : Ontario Ministry of the Environment |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Acid precipitation (Meteorology) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bruce Alexander Forster |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Apsimon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134180349 |
The environmental impacts of acid rain: on human health, on buildings and materials, on forests, freshwaters, crops and biodiversity and on global warming have been well-documented. Less is known about the extent and economic costs of these impacts. This book describes the first major implementation of an integrated scientific and economic assessment of the consequences of acid rain. It provides an extensive data review and examines how this unique approach to assessment modelling can be can be used to calculate an acidification cost per unit of pollutant in monetary terms. Part One focuses on the methodological issues of scientific measurement of acidification, dose-response relationships and economic approaches to acidification control. Part Two looks at the environmental impacts and economic consequences of acidification. Affected environmental media and human health are investigated in separate chapters, each including both scientific and economic analyses. Part Three provides a summary of the findings and makes recommendations for further application of these types of results to policy actions.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Acid rain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence J. O'Toole, Jr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2018-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429839146 |
Published in 1998, this is an analysis of the impact in Hungary of environmental policy following the Convention of Long Range Trans-boundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) of the Economic Commission of Europe. The book focuses on central research issues but also analyzes environmental institutions and policy in Hungary more generally. It treats related themes such as the emerging role of the new autonomous local governments, the impact of privatization on acidification and environmental issues in Hungary and offers coverage of the influence of NGO's in democratic Hungary.
Author | : Duncan Liefferink |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Acid rain |
ISBN | : 9780719049248 |
With the European Union's increasing powers its environmental legislation has grown rapidly. This study investigates the dynamics of the Europeanization of environmental policy and concludes that the domestic environmantal policies of relatively green member States are actually hardly affected. The text focuses on policy making in the field of air pollution and acidification between the (former) European Community and one Member State, the Netherlands. Included in the text is a concise history of EC environmental policy, an explanation of the theories of sovereignty, European integration and power-dependance, and final commentary on the future of environmental policy in the European Union.