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

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Scientific American

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DDC classification:

333.7

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	333.7 MAN man (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	11875

Includes bibliographical references an index.

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