National Academy of Sciences Reports

This page presents a series of reports assembled in 1974 by the Committee on the Effects of Herbicides in Vietnam with funding from the National Research Council and National Academy of Sciences. The reports investigate the effects of the herbicides on human health, the economy and psychology of the Vietnamese people, and the natural environment of Vietnam. This page provides full copies of the reports with permission from the National Academy of Sciences. More recent reports on the effects of the herbicides in Vietnam are available from National Academies Press.
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1 Committee on the Effects of Herbicides in Vietnam, National Research Council Interim Report - December 1970 through December 1971 (1972)
2 Committee on the Effects of Herbicides in Vietnam, National Research Council The Effects of Herbicides in Vietnam, Part A--Summary and Conclusions
3 James S. Bethel and Kenneth J. Turnbull Studies of the Inland Forests of South Vietnam and the Effects of Herbicides Upon Those Forests
4 Geoffrey E. Blackman An Historical Survey of the Development of Herbicides
5 Geoffrey E. Blackman, et al. Persistence and Disappearance of Herbicides in Tropical Soils
6 Joseph M. Carrier The Location of Herbicide Missions and Hickey's Informants in South Vietnam: An Appraisal
7 Donald P. De Sylva and Harding B. Michel Effects of Mangrove Defoliation on the Estuarine Ecology and Fisheries of South Vietnam
8 Gerald C. Hickey Perceived Effects of Herbicides Used in the Highlands of South Vietnam
9 William B. Drew The Ecological Role of Bamboos in Relation to the Military Use of Herbicides on Forests of South Vietnam
10 George M. Davis Mollusks as Indicators of the Effects of Herbicides on Mangroves in South Vietnam
11 Robert S. Desowitz, et al. Epidemiological-Ecological Effects: Studies on Intact and Deforested Mangrove Ecosystems
12 Howard T. Odum, et al. Models of Herbicide, Mangroves, and War in Vietnam
12 Jane M. Murphy, Gary D. Murfin, Neil L. Jamieson III, A. Terry Rambo, et al. Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior of Lowland Vietnamese
13 Joseph M. Carrier Estimating the Highlander Population Affected by Herbicides
14 Philip Ross The Effects of Herbicides on the Mangrove of South Vietnam
15 William L. Thomas Economic Stress and Settlement Changes
16 Charles P. Weatherspoon and Alan E. Krusinger Air-Photo Studies of the Rung Sat
17 John D. Fryer Uses of Herbicides in Tropics and Subtropics
18 William B. Drew The Ecological Role of the Fern (Acrostichum aureum) in Sprayed and Unsprayed Mangrove Forests
19 Paul J. Zinke Effects of Herbicides on the Soils of South Vietnam