Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xxii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Note |
Essays composed on the occasion of Greenhouse/Glasnost: the Sundance Symposium on Global Climate Change, held Aug. 1989 in Sundance, Utah, sponsored by the Institute for Resource Management and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Croesus and cassandra: policy response to global warming / Carl Sagan -- The spirit of greenhouse glasnost / Bill Bradley -- The climate and economic priorities / Georgii S. Golitsyn -- Global climate change: a retrospective view from business / Thomas G. Lambrix -- Changing climates, changing habits: energy efficiency and the global warming prevention act / Claudine Schneider -- What are the industrial considerations in a climate of global warming / Howard P. Allen -- Theory of climate: transition from academic challenge to global imperative / William W. Kellogg -- The changing climate: a risky planetwide experiment / Stephen H. Schneider -- The evolution of Gaia / James E. Lovelock -- Climate changes, international rivers, and international security: the Nile and the Colorado / Peter H. Gleick. |
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Population and the greenhouse warming / Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich -- Environmental refugees: the human impact of global climate change / Sir Crispin Tickell -- Global warming and climate change: challenge in search of a strategy / Noel J. Brown -- Will unexpectedly the top blow off / Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Forests and the atmosphere in a warming world / George M. Woodwell -- Innovative policies for sustainable development in the 1990's: economic incentives for environmental protection / John Heinz, Robert N. Stavins -- Why we don't listen ... / Robert Ornstein -- The global warming problem: a vital concern for global security / Roald Z. Sagdeev, Susan Eisenhower -- A respect for the natural law / Oren R. Lyons. |
Subject |
Global warming.
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Global warming -- Government policy.
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Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
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Climatic changes.
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Added Author |
Minger, Terrell J.
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Institute for Resource Management.
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Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR.
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Greenhouse/Glasnost: the Sundance Symposium on Global Climate Change (1989)
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ISBN |
0880012587: $17.95 (Canada $24.95) |
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