| Description |
xii, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 161-162. |
| Contents |
New science of the earth -- Lessons from the geologic past -- System interactions -- Humanity : an agent of global environmental change -- Global warming -- Food, water, and changing climate -- Coastlines and rising seas -- Ozone layer and ultraviolet radiation -- Vanishing forests and vanishing species -- Lakes, forests, and acid deposition -- Global change and our common future / |
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Gro Harlem Brundtland. |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Pollution.
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Global warming.
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Environmental policy.
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| Added Author |
DeFries, Ruth S.
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
0309041414 |
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