The papers of David Thom : onset of the environmental age / compiled and edited by Carolyn Halliday.

Includes bibliographical references.

Impacts on the countryside -- Recreational requirements for water management and effects of other resource users -- Resource development and the natural environment of the Coromandel Peninsula -- Political and industrial aspects of pollution -- Aesthetic pollution -- Engineering and environment -- Opening conservation week, 1972 -- The engineer, the community, and the environment -- The world scene in the recycling of water and waste materials -- Engineering aspects of urban renewal -- Environmental impact studies -- The role of the Environmental Council in environmental decision making -- The 1970 physical environment conference : subsequent developments and future trends -- Energy and environment -- In the matter of the Whangarei Country reviewed District Scheme, and objection No 372 by the Northland Regional Planning Authority -- Long-term harbour planning -- Impact of technology on the natural environment -- Engineering in the age of uncertainty -- Vanishing heritage : the problem of endangered species and their habitat -- "Environmental crunch" -- Engineer and current issues course : introductory remarks -- Technical discussion on energy -- Engineering and environment 1980 -- New Zealand where are you? -- Enviornmental impact reporting -- Wilderness within the National Parks and reserves system -- Building and the environment -- Report on First World Congress on "Engineering and environment" -- Future directions for the Antarctic realm -- Marketing professional services to major project developers -- Coastal reservation : policy issues -- New Zealand's National Parks and reserves : current progress and future directions -- People and parks -- Environmental administration in New Zealand -- The Engineer's response to the environmental challenge -- A code for the integration of environmental impact assessment into engineering practice -- Speech at opening of Whanganui National park -- where wehave come from/where we are going to -- The parks of the people -- Speech at the opening of Paparoa National park -- People in Parks day -- Westland National park -- Environmental Impact assessment and the private consultant -- Evolution in impact assessment -- Climate change and the engineer -- The horopito deviation : environmental management -- Some aspects of water management in Pacific Islands -- Evolution of enviornmental policy and engineering practice in New Zealand -- Engineer and the environment -- Rahui in the 21st century -- Arusha declaration -- Engineering to sustain the environment -- Engineering and the Asia Pacific response -- Address to closing ceremony of World Congress, Beijing -- Report on environmental education in engineering -- New Technical culture -- Making our engineering future -- Cleaner production, the engineer's responsibility -- Are we managing? -- Need for environmental engineering education fundamentals -- Sustainability, technology, and the role of engineering -- Engineering education and the new industrial revolution part 1 -- Sustainability and education -- to sink or to swim? -- some trends towards protection of the hydrospheric environment -- Global aspects of sustainable development -- Environment, sustainability, engineering -- Where are we now? Key elements for decision and action -- Engineering education and the new industrial revolution part II -- Teaching sustainable development -- Can technology save the World? -- Engineering strategy for the next millenium -- Acronyms used in David Thom's papers -- Waimakato Coalfield.