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PAPERBACK list:$24.00 Web:$21.60 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $18.50 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions Other Related Titles Global Change and Our Common Future: Papers from a Forum (1989) Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 226   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 226 Front Matter (R1-R14) Part A: Society's Stake in Global Change (1-2) 1. Toward a Global Environmental Policy (3-9) 2. Global Change and Our Common Future: The Benjamin Frankline Lecture (10-18) 3. Global Change and Carrying Capacity: Implications for Life on Earth (19-28) Part B: The Earth System (29-30) 4. The Earth System (31-33) 5. Mission to Planet Earth Revisited (34-49) 6. Historical Perspectives: Climatic Changes Throughout the Millennia (50-61) 7. Mathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Warming: How Much Do We Know? (62-72) 8. The Earth's Fragile Ozone Shield (73-77) 9. Terrestrial Ecosystems (78-83) 10. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (84-89) 11. The Human Causes of Global Environmental Change (90-100) Part C: Impacts of Global Change (101-102) 12. What Does Global Change Mean for Society? (103-124) 13. Impacts of Future Sea Level Rise (125-138) 14. Threats to Biological Diversity as the Earth Warms (139-158) 15. Deforestation and Its Role in Possible Changes in the Brazilian Amazon (159-171) 16. Impacts of Global Change (172-174) Part D: Implications For Public Policy (175-176) 17. The Global Environment: A National Security Issue (177-186) 18. Implications for Public Policy: Options for Action (187-193) 19. View from the North (194-197) 20. View from the South (198-203) 21. Political Leadership and the Brundtland Report: What Are the Implications for Public Policy (204-208) 22. Global Warming: Is It Real and Should It Be Part of a Global Change Program? (209-220) Appendixes (221-222) A: Program -- Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future (223-225) B: Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members (226-228)

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APPENDIX B COMMITTEE ON GLOBAL CHANGE AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEMBERS (U.S. COMMITTEE ON GLOBAL CHANGE National Committee for the IGBP) Harold Mooney, Stanford University, Chairman Paul G. Risser. University of New Mexico D. James Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. Francis P. Bretherton, University of Wisconsin Kevin C. Burke, National Research Council William C. Clark, Harvard University Margaret B. Davis, University of Minnesota Robert E. Dickinson, National Center for Atmospheric Research John Imbrie, Brown University Robert W. Kates, Brown University Thomas F. Malone, St. Joseph College Michael B. McElroy, Harvard University Berrien Moore III, University of New Hampshire Ellen S. Mosely-Thompson, Ohio State University Piers J. Sellers, University of Maryland ~ J ~ 7 _ irman Ex-Officio Members U.S. Members ICSU Special Committee for the IGBP John A. Eddy, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research James J. McCarthy, Harvard University S. Ichtiaque Rasool, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Staff John S. Perry, Staff Director Ruth S. DeFries, Staff Officer 226 r

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227 AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR OVERSIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GLOBAL CHANGE Norman Hackerman, Robert A. Welch Foundation (Chairman, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources), Convenor Robert McC. Adams, Smithsonian Institution (Chairman, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education) Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco (Chairman, Commission on Life Sciences) William Gordon, Rice University (Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Sciences) Staff John Burris, Executive Director, Commission on Life Sciences Victor Rabinowitch, Executive Director, Office of International Affairs Myron Uman, Acting Executive Director, Commission on Physical Science Mathematics, and Resources Suzanne Woolsey, Executive Director, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education s ,

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