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Global Environmental Issues
Edited by Harris, Frances
John Wiley & Sons
2004
Hardcover 312 Pages ISBN 0470845600
£70.00
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Softcover 312 Pages ISBN 0470845619
£29.50
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Global Environmental Issues offers a unique perspective on environmental change, viewing it
as a product of natural biophysical change and human action. Underscoring this theme
throughout, each chapter interlinks human demands on the earth's natural resources to natural
biophysical change. Illustrated with global case studies that help contextualize the theory,
the book examines such contemporary issues as biodiversity, urbanization, and sustainable
development.
From the contents
Contributors.
Preface.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION.
1. Human-Environment Interactions (Frances Harris) .
PART TWO: THE CAHNGING SURFACE OF THE EARTH.
2. A change in the Weather?--Coming to Terms with Climate Change (Michael Hulme).
3. Understanding and Adapting to Sea-Level Change (Patrick D. Nunn).
4. Land Cover Change (Doreen S. Boyd and Giles M. Foody).
5. Conserving Biodiversity Resources (Frances M. A. Harris).
PART THREE: MEETING OUR NEEDS.
6. Food Production and Supply (Guy M. Robinson and F. M. A. Harris).
7. Meeting Society's Demand for Energy (Nick Petford).
PART FOUR: COPING WITH OUR IMPACT.
8 Managing Urbanisation (Kenneth Lynch).
9 Coping with Pollution: Dealing with Waste (Rosalind M. Taylor and Katherine H. Morrissey).
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION.
10 Sustainable Development (Frances M. A. Harris).
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations.
References.
Index.
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