Subject Index
Accountancy-based standards, 170
Acid deposition,
in Norway, 34
wet, 32
Acid Deposition Control Program,
48
Acid Deposition Monitoring Network
in East Asia (EANET), 50
Acidification, 44, 47, 144
of soils, 144
-related impacts, 44
Acid Precipitation Act of 1980, 48
Acid rain, 35, 48, 140—141
Adaptation, 118, 120—121, 137
at the farm level, 116
to future climate conditions, 17
Adaptive capacity, 103, 123
Advisory Group on Greenhouse
Gases (AGGG), 1
Aeroallergens, 150
Aerosol, 8, 16, 26
Aforestation, 10
Africa, 40, 109, 118, 124, 129, 135—137,
144, 152, 155
commercial energy consumption,
40
African nations, crop yields,135
Aggregate environmental
performance, 177
Agricultural
production, 109
subsidy reform, 48
vulnerability, 109
yields, 42, 43, 110, 115, 117—118,
123, 125—127, 134, 136,
152
Agriculture GDP, 121
Air pollution, 26, 141
abatement, 45
and tourism, 34
costs, 24, 30
from industry in developing
countries, 37
health effects, 141, 142
impacts, 25, 41
in North America, 48
indoor, 29, 142
industrial, 37, 51
problems in cities, 25
policy in
Africa, 39, 51
Asia, 38, 49
Europe, 41, 46
Latin America, 40, 52
Air quality, 21
Agreement, 48
guidelines, 30, 42
Kathmandu Valley, 53
problems in Hong Kong, 55
standards
European Union, 31
Japan, 31
USA, 31
Aircraft emissions, 8
Alaska
Chinook, chum and pink salmon
catch, 75
pollock, 77
salmon populations, 74
shrimp populations, 74
Aldrin, 146
Aleutian Low, 63, 74—75
Algal blooms, 152
Ammonia, 34
emissions, 38, 39
from agriculture, 47
Ammonium ion, 26, 34—36,
52
185