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INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

Volume 1:	Acid Rain in Europe
Volume 2:	Getting to Grips with Green Plans
Volume 3:	The Global Politics of Pesticides
Volume 4:	Acid Earth
Volume 5:	Earth Summit II
Volume 6:	Fair Weather
Volume 7:	Future Generations and International Law
Volume 8:	Greening International Institutions
Volume 9:	A Guide to EC Environmental Law
Volume 10:	Managing the Planet
Volume 11:	Protecting the Atmosphere
Volume 12:	From Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21
Volume 13:	Futile Progress
Volume 14:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 199899
Volume 15:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 19992000
Volume 16:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 200102
Volume 17:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 200203
Volume 18:	Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 200304

First published in 1989

This edition first published in 2009 by Earthscan

Copyright John McCormick, 1989

All rights reserved

eisbn 978-1-13405-385-8

ISBN 978-1-84407-988-9 (hbk)

ISBN 978-0-41584-583-0 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-84407-984-1 (International Environmental Governance set)

ISBN 978-1-84407-930-8 (Earthscan Library Collection)

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First issued in paperback 2013

Earthscan publishes in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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Publishers note

The publisher has made every effort to ensure the quality of this reprint, but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

At Earthscan we strive to minimize our environmental impacts and carbon footprint through reducing waste, recycling and offsetting our C02 emissions, including those created through publication of this book.

John McCormick is a British environmental writer whose articles and reports have appeared in newspapers and journals throughout the world. His other books, The Users Guide to the Environment (1985) and The Global Environmental Movement (1989), are well known. He is, at the time of publication, lecturing and completing his PhD in political science at Indiana university.

This second edition published in Great Britain 1989

by Earthscan Publications Limited

3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H ODD

Second printing 1990

Copyright International Institute for Environment
and Development (IIED) 1985, John McCormick 1989

All rights reserved

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

McCormick, John, 1954-

Acid earth: the global threat of acid pollution. 2nd ed.
1. Environment. Pollution by acid rain
I. Tide
363. 7386

ISBN 185383-033-X

Earthscan Publications Limited is an editorially

independent and wholly owned subsidiary of the

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Typeset by Selectmove, London

front caver: Acid fog affecting the health of the trees in the Biack Forest, West Germany, Adam Hart Davis/Science Photo Library.

Back caver: Deformed embryo of the spotted salamander raised experimentally in low pH H20 levels similar to those found in acid-rain contaminated waters, T. P. Dickinson/Science Photo Library.

CEGB	Central Electricity Generating Board (UK)
CEQ.	Council on Environmental Quality (US)
CSAV	Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
CSE	Centre for Science and Environment (India)
EB	Executive Body (of ECE convention)
EC	European Community
ECE	United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
EDF	Environmental Defense Fund (US)
EMEP	Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and
Evaluation of Long-Range Transmission of
Air Pollutants in Europe
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency (US)
FBC	fluidized bed combustion
FGD	flue gas desulphurization
LDCs	less developed countries
LIMB	lime injection in multistage burners
LRTAP	Co-operative Technical Programme to Measure the Long-range Transport of Air Pollution
MAFF	Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (UK)
MDCs	more developed countries
MOI	Memorandum of Intent on Transboundary Air Pollution (US/Canada)
MW	megawatt
NAPAP	National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (US)
NCAC	National Clean Air Coalition (US)
NCB	National Coal Board (UK)
NCC	Nature Conservancy Council (UK)
NICs	newly industrialized countries
NRC	National Research Council (US)
OECD	Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OME	Ontario Ministry of the Environment (Canada)
PFBC	pressurized fluidized bed combustion
UNECE	see ECE
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
WHO	World Health Organization
CO	carbon monoxide
C02	carbon dioxide
HC	hydrocarbons
HNO3	nitric acid
HO	hydroxy radical
H2O2	hydrogen peroxide
H2SO4	sulphuric acid
NO2	nitrogen dioxide
NOx	nitrogen oxides
03	ozone
pH	potential hydrogen (measure of acidity/alkalinity)

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