One earth, one future : our changing global environment / by Cheryl Simon Silver with Ruth S. DeFries for the National Academy of Sciences.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silver, Cheryl Simon
Corporate Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Other Authors: DeFries, Ruth S.
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [1990], ©1990.
Subjects:
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Pollution.
Global warming.
Environmental policy.
Physical Description:xiii, 196 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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 / Gro Harlem Brundtland.