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To The U.S. Department Of Transportation: Comments Of The Environmental Defense Fund On The Secretary Of Transportation’S National Transportation Policy, Robert E. Yuhnke Nov 1989

To The U.S. Department Of Transportation: Comments Of The Environmental Defense Fund On The Secretary Of Transportation’S National Transportation Policy, Robert E. Yuhnke

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

20 pages.


Health Effects Of Air Pollutants (Sulfur Dioxide, Ozone, And Carbon Monoxide), Robert A. Bethel Nov 1989

Health Effects Of Air Pollutants (Sulfur Dioxide, Ozone, And Carbon Monoxide), Robert A. Bethel

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

19 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains references.


Urban Ambient Air Quality Trends, N. O. Gerald Nov 1989

Urban Ambient Air Quality Trends, N. O. Gerald

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

24 pages (includes illustrations and maps).


Urban Air Quality Litigation Under The Clean Air Act: Past, Present And Future, David S. Baron Nov 1989

Urban Air Quality Litigation Under The Clean Air Act: Past, Present And Future, David S. Baron

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

20 pages.

Contains footnotes.


Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control: The Remaining Issues, Michael P. Walsh Nov 1989

Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control: The Remaining Issues, Michael P. Walsh

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

26 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains references.


Agenda: Air Quality Protection In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center Nov 1989

Agenda: Air Quality Protection In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

Conference organizers, session moderators and/or speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professor Mark S. Squillace.

Visibility, acid rain, air toxics, and urban air pollution are the topics of an upcoming Center conference on air quality in the West. The conference will be held at the School of Law in Boulder on November 27-28, 1989. Presentations will describe the nature and scope of the issues, the existing legal framework and experience with its implementation, and proposed changes in the law. Emphasis will be placed on air quality issues in the West and efforts underway to address these problems. Special …


Diminishing Views: Air Quality In Western National Parks, Christine L. Shaver Nov 1989

Diminishing Views: Air Quality In Western National Parks, Christine L. Shaver

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

17 pages.

Contains references.


Regional Air Quality Concerns In The West: Acid Deposition And Ozone, Kathy A. Tonnessen Nov 1989

Regional Air Quality Concerns In The West: Acid Deposition And Ozone, Kathy A. Tonnessen

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

22 pages.

Contains 3 pages of references.


Toxic Air Pollution: New Solutions To Old Problems, Devra Lee Davis, Curtis Moore Nov 1989

Toxic Air Pollution: New Solutions To Old Problems, Devra Lee Davis, Curtis Moore

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

12 pages.


Transboundary Air Pollution: The Legal Framework, Mark S. Squillace Nov 1989

Transboundary Air Pollution: The Legal Framework, Mark S. Squillace

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

12 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains footnotes.


Ua66/8/2 The Climate Of Bowling Green & Warren County, Wku Center For Local Government, Glen Conner, Mike Nichols, John Ternent, Grant Whittle, Amy Huot Jan 1989

Ua66/8/2 The Climate Of Bowling Green & Warren County, Wku Center For Local Government, Glen Conner, Mike Nichols, John Ternent, Grant Whittle, Amy Huot

WKU Archives Records

Climate analysis of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky from 1958 to 1987.


Loss Of Biological Diversity: A Global Crisis Requiring International Solutions: A Report To The National Science Board, Craig Call Black, Perry L. Adkisson, Gardner Mallard Brown, Rita Rossi Colwell, Charles E. Hess, James B. Holderman, K. June Lindstedt-Siva, William A. Nierenberg, Peter Hamilton Raven, Theodore M. Smith, Edward O. Wilson, W. Franklin Harris Jan 1989

Loss Of Biological Diversity: A Global Crisis Requiring International Solutions: A Report To The National Science Board, Craig Call Black, Perry L. Adkisson, Gardner Mallard Brown, Rita Rossi Colwell, Charles E. Hess, James B. Holderman, K. June Lindstedt-Siva, William A. Nierenberg, Peter Hamilton Raven, Theodore M. Smith, Edward O. Wilson, W. Franklin Harris

Harold W. Manter Laboratory: Library Materials

Executive Summary

Biological diversity refers to the variety and variability among living organisms and the ecological complexes in which they occur. Diversity can be defined as the number of different items and their relative frequency. For biological diversity, these items are organized at many levels, ranging from complete ecosystems to the chemical structures that are the molecular basis of heredity. Thus, the term encompasses different ecosystems, species, genes, and their relative abundance (OTA, 1987).

There is an ongoing, unprecedented loss of the variety as well as absolute numbers of organisms-from the smallest microorganism to the largest and most spectacular of …