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1 online resource (vi, 152 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Encyclopedia of environmental issues |
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Encyclopedia of environmental issues.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
""Table of Contents""; ""Contributors ""; ""Africa 1""; ""Agenda 21 5""; ""Amazon River basin 6""; ""Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition 9""; ""Antarctic Treaty 10""; ""Aral Sea destruction 12""; ""Asia 15""; ""Australia and New Zealand 18""; ""Balance of nature 21""; ""Bioassays 23""; ""Biodiversity 24""; ""Biodiversity action plans 27""; ""Biomagnification 28""; ""Biomes 30""; ""Bioremediation 32""; ""Biosphere 34""; ""Biosphere 2 37""; ""Boreal forests 39""; ""Brundtland, Gro Harlem 40""; ""Carson, Rachel 41""; ""Central America and the Caribbean 42""; ""Chesapeake Bay 46"" |
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""Climax communities 46""""Cloud forests 47""; ""Club of Rome 49""; ""Congo River basin 50""; ""Coniferous forests 51""; ""Conservation biology 52""; ""Convention on Biological Diversity 53""; ""Coral reefs 54""; ""Cultural ecology 55""; ""Darwin, Charles 56""; ""Dead zones 57""; ""Deciduous forests 58""; ""Dubos, René 60""; ""Earth Day 60""; ""Earth Summit 63""; ""Ecological footprint 66""; ""Ecology as a concept 67""; ""Ecology in history 68""; ""Ecosystem services 72""; ""Ecosystems 73""; ""Environmental education 76""; ""Environmental refugees 78""; ""Environmental security 80"" |
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""Europe 81""""European Environment Agency 85""; ""Everglades 86""; ""Food chains 87""; ""Gaia hypothesis 89""; ""Global Biodiversity Assessment 90""; ""Global Environment Facility 91""; ""Global 2000 Report, The 92""; ""Great Barrier Reef 93""; ""Group of Ten 94""; ""International Biological Program 95""; ""Introduced and exotic species 96""; ""Kalahari Desert 99""; ""Land clearance 101""; ""Limits to Growth, The 102""; ""Lovelock, James 103""; ""Marsh, George Perkins 105""; ""Mendes, Chico 106""; ""Middle East 107""; ""Narmada River 110""; ""National Environmental Policy Act 111"" |
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""National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act 112""""North America 113""; ""Our Common Future 117""; ""Rain forests 119""; ""Restoration ecology 121""; ""St. Lawrence Seaway 122""; ""Savannas 124""; ""Seabed mining 125""; ""South America 128""; ""Spaceship Earth metaphor 132""; ""Tansley, Arthur G. 132""; ""Three Gorges Dam 134""; ""United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 136""; ""United Nations Environment Programme 138""; ""Urban ecology 140""; ""Wilson, Edward O. 141""; ""Bibliography 143""; ""CATEGORY INDEX ""; ""INDEX "" |
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Ecosystem management -- Encyclopedias.
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Ecology -- Encyclopedias.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Ecosystem management. (OCoLC)fst01432037
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Reference works. (OCoLC)fst01919963
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Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
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Encyclopedias.
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Reference works.
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| Added Author |
Allin, Craig W. (Craig Willard)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Allin, Craig W. Ecology and Ecosystems. Pasadena : Salem Press, ©2011 9781429836715 |
| ISBN |
9781587659225 (electronic bk.) |
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1587659220 (electronic bk.) |
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