TY - BOOK TI - Managing planet earth: readings from Scientific American magazine SN - 0716721082 U1 - 333.7 PY - 1990/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - W.H. Freeman KW - Nonrenewable natural resources KW - Management KW - Economic development KW - Environmental aspects N1 - 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 ER -