The fragile environment : the Darwin College lectures / edited by Laurie Friday and Ronald Laskey.

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TextSeries: Darwin College lecture seriesPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

051100611X
9780511006111
0521422663
9780521422666
0521363373
9780521363372
0511611994
9780511611995

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fragile environment.DDC classification:

333.7/2 19

LOC classification:

QH541 .F695 1989eb

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Contents:

The changing human impact / Andrew Goudie -- The future of forests / Norman Myers -- Attitudes to animals / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- How many species? / Robert May -- Famine / Roger Whitehead -- Exhaustible resources / Partha Dasgupta -- Changing Climates / Bert Bolin -- Observing earth's environment from space / Gordon Wells.

Summary: The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership.

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Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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English.

The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership.

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