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Global change and our common future : papers from a forum / Ruth S. DeFries and Thomas F. Malone, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058514902X
  • 9780585149028
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global change and our common future.DDC classification:
  • 363.7063
LOC classification:
  • HC79.E5 G592 1989eb
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Partial contents:
Toward a global environmental policy / William D. Ruckelshaus -- Global change and our common future : the Benjamin Franklin Lecture / Gro Harlen Brundtland -- Global change and carrying capacity : implications for life on Earth / Paul R. Ehrlich [and others] -- The Earth system / Digby J. McLaren -- Mission to planet Earth revisited / Thomas F. Malone and Robert Corell -- Historical perspectives : climatic changes throughout the millenia / John E. Kutzbach -- Mathematical modeling of greenhouse warming : how much do we know? / J.D. Mahlman -- The Earth's fragile ozone shield / Susan Solomon -- Terrestrial ecosystems / Peter M. Vitousek -- Human dimensions of global environmental change / Roberta Balstad Miller -- The human causes of global environmental change / B.L. Turner II.
What does global change mean for society? / Lester R. Brown -- Impacts of future sea level rise / James M. Broadus -- Threats to biological diversity as the Earth warms / Robert L. Peters -- Deforestation and its role in possible changes in the Brazilian Amazon / Eneas Salati [and others] -- Impacts of global change / Jose Goldemberg -- The global environment : a national security issue / Albert Gore, Jr. -- Implications for public policy : options for action / Martin W. Holdgate -- View from the North / Digby J. McLaren -- View from the South / Marc J. Dourojeanni -- Political leadership and the Brundtland Report : what are the implications for public policy? / Charles Caccia -- Global warming : is it real and should it be part of a global change program? / Stephen H. Schneider.
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"Committee on Global Change, National Research Council."

Proceedings of the Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future, held on May 2-3, 1989, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., and organized by the the National Research Council's Committee on Global Change.

Includes bibliographical references.

Toward a global environmental policy / William D. Ruckelshaus -- Global change and our common future : the Benjamin Franklin Lecture / Gro Harlen Brundtland -- Global change and carrying capacity : implications for life on Earth / Paul R. Ehrlich [and others] -- The Earth system / Digby J. McLaren -- Mission to planet Earth revisited / Thomas F. Malone and Robert Corell -- Historical perspectives : climatic changes throughout the millenia / John E. Kutzbach -- Mathematical modeling of greenhouse warming : how much do we know? / J.D. Mahlman -- The Earth's fragile ozone shield / Susan Solomon -- Terrestrial ecosystems / Peter M. Vitousek -- Human dimensions of global environmental change / Roberta Balstad Miller -- The human causes of global environmental change / B.L. Turner II.

What does global change mean for society? / Lester R. Brown -- Impacts of future sea level rise / James M. Broadus -- Threats to biological diversity as the Earth warms / Robert L. Peters -- Deforestation and its role in possible changes in the Brazilian Amazon / Eneas Salati [and others] -- Impacts of global change / Jose Goldemberg -- The global environment : a national security issue / Albert Gore, Jr. -- Implications for public policy : options for action / Martin W. Holdgate -- View from the North / Digby J. McLaren -- View from the South / Marc J. Dourojeanni -- Political leadership and the Brundtland Report : what are the implications for public policy? / Charles Caccia -- Global warming : is it real and should it be part of a global change program? / Stephen H. Schneider.

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