One Earth, One Future:

Our Changing Global Environment

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Size: 208 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1990

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by Cheryl Simon Silver with Ruth S. DeFries for the National Academy of Sciences
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Written for nonscientists, One Earth, One Future can help individuals understand the basic science behind changes in the global environment and the resulting policy implications that the population of the entire planet must face.
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Table of Contents
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Front Matter	i-xii
1. Introduction	1-12	(skim)
The Earth as a System	13-14	(skim)
2. A New Science of the Earth	15-19	(skim)
3. Lessons from the Geologic Past	20-30	(skim)
4. System Interactions: Atmosphere, Oceans, Land, and Humans	31-48	(skim)
5. Humanity: An Agent of Global Environmental Change	49-60	(skim)
The Faces of Global Eniornmental Change	61-62	(skim)
6. Global Warming	63-77	(skim)
7. Food, Water, and Changing Climate	78-89	(skim)
8. Coastlines and Rising Seas	90-102	(skim)
9. The Ozone Layer and Ultraviolet Radiation	103-115	(skim)
10. Vanishing Forests and Vanishing Species	116-130	(skim)
11. Lakes, Forests, and Acid Deposition	131-144	(skim)
Afterword	145-158	(skim)
Appendixes	159-160	(skim)
A. Selected Reading	161-162	(skim)
B. Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future: Agenda and Speakers	163-166	(skim)
C. Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members	167-168	(skim)
D. Letter on Global Environmental Change to President-Elect George Bush from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine	169-186	(skim)
Index	187-196	(skim)

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Written for nonscientists, One Earth, One Future can help individuals understand the basic science behind changes in the global environment and the resulting policy implications that the population of the entire planet must face.

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"[T]his work manages to take a fresh look at a stale subject.... Written for the layperson, it is clear and concise." --Library Journal

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