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FROM VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 1994

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• IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: SOCIETY

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Climate Change and the Insurance Industry, Feb. 1993. Contact Greenpeace, Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN, UK (tel: +44-71-354-5100).

This industry-reviewed study says that heavy losses from a succession of catastrophic storms are causing some insurers in the U.S. and U.K. to drop coverage against climate-related disasters. (Discussed in Global Environ. Change Rep., p. 7, Feb. 12, 1993.)

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Social Learning: Climate Change in the United Kingdom, 1970-1990, £9/$18. Centre for the Study of Environ. Change, Fylde College, Lancaster Univ., Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK.

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Bibliography: Health Effects of Global Warming, Natl. Library of Medicine (Bethesda, Md.), 6 pp., 1992, $3.25. Order No. 817-007-00017-1, U.S. Govt. Printing Off., Washington DC 20402 (202-783-3238). Aimed at professionals as well as the general public.