Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Book Review
  • Published:

Defending the Earth

International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions.

By Lynton K. Caldwell. Duke University Press: 1984. Pp.367. Hbk $37.50, £28.50; pbk $14.75, £11.90.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Author information

Author notes

  1. Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution from 1970 to 1973.

    • Eric Ashby
Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Ashby, E. Defending the Earth. Nature 311, 765–766 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/311765a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/311765a0

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing