The Fragile environment
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The Fragile environment
(The Darwin College lectures)
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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Includes index
Pbk.は別書誌。(BA13205768)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership.
Table of Contents
- Editorial note
- Preface
- 1. The changing human impact Andrew Goudie
- 2. The future of forests Norman Myers
- 3. Attitudes to animals Marian Stamp Dawkins
- 4. How many species? Robert May
- 5. Famine Roger Whitehead
- 6. Exhaustible resources Partha Dasgupta
- 7. Changing climates Bert Bolin
- 8. Observing earth's environment from space Gordon Wells
- Index.
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