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PAPERBACK list:$29.95 Web:$26.95 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $23.00 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 Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales Other Related Titles One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990) National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 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 61   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 61 Front Matter (R1-R12) 1. Introduction (1-12) The Earth as a System (13-14) 2. A New Science of the Earth (15-19) 3. Lessons from the Geologic Past (20-30) 4. System Interactions: Atmosphere, Oceans, Land, and Humans (31-48) 5. Humanity: An Agent of Global Environmental Change (49-60) The Faces of Global Eniornmental Change (61-62) 6. Global Warming (63-77) 7. Food, Water, and Changing Climate (78-89) 8. Coastlines and Rising Seas (90-102) 9. The Ozone Layer and Ultraviolet Radiation (103-115) 10. Vanishing Forests and Vanishing Species (116-130) 11. Lakes, Forests, and Acid Deposition (131-144) Afterword (145-158) Appendixes (159-160) A. Selected Reading (161-162) B. Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future: Agenda and Speakers (163-166) C. Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members (167-168) 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) Index (187-196)

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