Acid in the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Acid in the Environment: An Overview

   1. Acid in the Environment: An Overview

      • Gerald R. Visgilio, Jane Dawson, Peter A. Siver, Diana M. Whitelaw

      Pages 1-12

3. Lessons Learned From the Acid Deposition Research Experience: An Historical Perspective

   1. Lessons Learned From the Acid Deposition Research Experience: An Historical Perspective

      • Anthony C. Janetos

      Pages 13-23

4. Ecological Impacts of Acid Deposition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Acidic Deposition: Sources and Ecological Effects

      • Charles T. Driscoll, Kathy Fallon Lambert, Limin Chen

      Pages 27-58

   3. Long-Term Changes in Boreal Lake and Stream Chemistry: Recovery From Acid Deposition and the Role of Climate

      • Peter J. Dillon, Shaun A. Watmough, M. Catherine Eimers, Julian Aherne

      Pages 59-76

   4. Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition: Implications for Terrestrial Ecosystem Structure and Functioning

      • Knute J. Nadelhoffer

      Pages 77-95

   5. Atmospheric Deposition and Nitrogen Pollution in Coastal Marine Ecosystems

      • Robert W. Howarth

      Pages 97-116

5. Acid Emissions Energy and Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. The Politics of Acid Rain in Europe

      • Miranda A. Schreurs

      Pages 119-149

   3. Acid Rain in a Wider Europe: The Post-Communist Transition and the Future European Acid Rain Policies

      • Liliana B. Andonova

      Pages 151-173

   4. Acid Rain Politics in North America: Conflict to Cooperation to Collusion

      • Don Munton

      Pages 175-201

   5. Air Quality and Power Production in the United States: Emissions Trading and State-Level Initiatives in the Control of Acid-Producing Emissions, Mercury, and Carbon Dioxide

      • Daniel Sosland

      Pages 203-221

6. Sulfur Dioxide and the Market

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy: A “Refresher” Course

      • Paul R. Portney

      Pages 225-231

   3. Economic Incentives Versus Command and Control: What’s the Best Approach for Solving Environmental Problems?

      • Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern

      Pages 233-240

   4. Benefits and Costs From Sulfur Dioxide Trading: A Distributional Analysis

      • Ronald J. Shadbegian, Wayne Gray, Cynthia Morgan

      Pages 241-259

   5. From Sulfur Dioxide to Greenhouse Gases: Trends and Events Shaping Future Emissions Trading Programs in the United States

      • Joseph Kruger

      Pages 261-287

7. Lessons Learned and Future Prospects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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   2. Atmospheric Deposition and Conservation: What is the Role for Conservation Organizations?

      • Timothy H. Tear

      Pages 291-307

The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program that builds on one of the nation's leading undergraduate environmental studies programs. The Center fosters research, education and curriculum development aimed at under­ standing contemporary ecological challenges. One of the major goals of the Good­ win-Niering Center involves enhancing the understanding of both the College com­ munity and the general public with respect to ecological, political, social, and economic factors that affect natural resource use. To this end, the Center has offered five conferences at which academicians, representatives of federal and state govern­ ment, and individuals from non-government environmental organizations are brought together for an in-depth, interdisciplinary evaluation of important environ­ mental issues. On April 1 and 2, 2005, the Center presented the Elizabeth Babbott Conant interdisciplinary conference on Acid in the Environment: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects. The Connecticut Institute of Water Resources at the Univer­ sity of Connecticut, the Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program joined the Center as conference sponsors. During the past twenty five years acid rain, formally referred to as acid deposi­ tion, has been the focus of much political debate and scholarly research. Acid dep­ osition occurs when important precursor pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NO^), mix with water vapor and oxidants in the atmosphere and fall back to earth in either wet or dry form.

• Greenhouse Gas
• Greenhouse Gases
• acid emissions
• acid rain
• conservation
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• emissions
• environment
• environmental policy
• organization
• pollution
• production
• air pollution and air quality
• terrestrial pollution
• industrial pollution prevention

• Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies, Connecticut College, New London, USA

  Gerald R. Visgilio, Diana M. Whitelaw

Gerald R. Visgilio is Professor of Economics and Associate Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College where he also serves as the academic advisor to the Certificate Program in Environmental Studies. His research and teaching interests include an economic analysis of environmental and natural resource policy, environmental law, environmental justice and antitrust law and policy. He earned his B.A. from Providence College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island. Visgilio co-edited Our Backyard: A Quest for Environmental Justice, which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title in Science and Technology in 2003 and America’s Changing Coasts: Private Rights and Public Trust in 2005.

Diana M. Whitelaw is Associate Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College where she coordinates the Certificate Program in Environmental Studies. Whitelaw co-edited Our Backyard: A Quest for Environmental Justice, which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title in Science and Technology in 2003 and America’s Changing Coasts: Private Rights and Public Trust in 2005. She earned her M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of New Haven and her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut.

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