Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica : a continental overview of environmental issues
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Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica : a continental overview of environmental issues
（The world's environments）
ABC-CLIO, c2003
- :hbk
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Australia, Oceania, & Antarctica
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes index
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Description
A concise yet thorough overview of environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica.
They are vast, distant, and scarcely populated. Yet the environments of Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica are facing the same threats confronting the rest of the planet, as well as some unique ones of their own. How have human-introduced species impacted Australia's natural order? What new global conventions are helping close Antarctica's ozone hole? And how is global climate change threatening the South Pacific's species-rich coral reefs?
The region's governments are grappling with the spectre of global warming, which, if not meaningfullly addressed by industrialized nations half a world away, could produce rising sea levels capable of engulfing several states of Oceania and partially submerging portions of many other inhabited islands. Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica tackles the difficult issues, tough problems, and political controversies surrounding these lands of extremes.
Interesting sidebar articles, tables and figures, and photographs
Overview maps of the area and a listing of environment-related organizations on the Internet
by "Nielsen BookData"