Managing planet earth : readings from Scientific American magazine.
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TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : W.H. Freeman, c1990.Description: vi, 146 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0716721082
- Scientific American
- 333.7
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Includes bibliographical references an index.
Foreword / Jonathan Piel -- Ch. 1. Managing Planet Earth / William C. Clark -- Ch. 2. The changing atmosphere / Thomas E. Graedel and Paul J. Crutzen -- Ch. 3. The changing climate / Stephen H. Schneider -- Ch. 4. Threats to the world’s water / J. W. Maurits la Rivière -- Ch. 5. Threats to biodiversity / Edward O. Wilson -- Ch. 6. The growing human population / Nathan Keyfitz -- Ch. 7. Strategies for agricultura / Pierre R. Crosson and Norman J. Rosenberg -- Ch. 8. Strategies for energy use / John H. Gibbons, Peter D. Blair and Holly L. Gwin -- Ch. 9. Strategies for manufacturing / Robert A. Frosch and Nicholas E. Gallopoulos -- Ch. 10. Strategies for sustainable economic development / Jim MacNeill -- Ch. 11. Toward a sustainable world / William D. Ruckelshaus -- Epilogue: How to secure our common future / Gro Harlem Brundtland.
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