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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 051100611X
  • 9780511006111
  • 0521422663
  • 9780521422666
  • 0521363373
  • 9780521363372
  • 0511611994
  • 9780511611995
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fragile environment.DDC classification:
  • 333.7/2 19
LOC classification:
  • QH541 .F695 1989eb
Online resources:
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.

Print version record.

English.

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.

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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