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Global Change and Our Common Future : Papers from a Forum.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Global Change and our Common Future""; ""Copyright""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Contents""; ""PART A SOCIETY'S STAKE IN GLOBAL CHANGE ""; ""1 Toward a Global Environmental Policy ""; ""2 Global Change and our Common Future: The Benjamin Franklin Lecture ""; ""3 Global Change and Carrying Capacity: Implications for Life on Earth ""; ""DIRECT HUMAN IMPACTS""; ""GLOBAL WARMING""; ""MODELING GLOBAL CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""References""; ""PART B THE EARTH SYSTEM ""; ""4 The Earth System ""
- ""5 Mission to Planet Earth Revisited""""GLOBAL CHANGE IN THE LIMELIGHT""; ""GROWING INTEREST""; ""A SCIENTIFIC INITIATIVE""; ""OTHER INITIATIVES""; ""EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM""; ""THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RESPONDS""; ""KEY ISSUES""; ""Redesigning Institutions""; ""Social Sciences and Engineering""; ""Developing Countries""; ""Financing""; ""CONTINUING QUESTIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""6 Historical Perspectives: Climatic Changes Throughout the Millennia ""; ""References for Additional Reading""; ""7 Mathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Warming: How Much do we Know? ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""References""
- ""8 The Earth's Fragile Ozone Shield """"HISTORY OF THE OZONE DEPLETION PROBLEM""; ""CURRENT THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF ANTARCTIC OZONE DEPLETION""; ""OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE""; ""METEOROLOGICAL PROCESSES: ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC""; ""IMPLICATIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""9 Terrestrial Ecosystems ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS""; ""MODERN GLOBAL CHANGE AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""10 Human Dimensions Of Global Environmental Change ""; ""WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?""; ""WHAT IS BEING DONE?""; ""THE NATURE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON GLOBAL CHANGE""
- ""THE RESEARCH AGENDA""""RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY""; ""SUMMARY""; ""11 The Human Causes of Global Environmental Change ""; ""PROXIMATE SOURCES OF CHANGE""; ""HUMAN DRIVING AND MITIGATING FORCES OF CHANGE""; ""Human Driving Forces""; ""Human Mitigating Forces""; ""HUMAN BEHAVIOR""; ""NOTES""; ""PART C IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ""; ""12 What Does Global Change Mean For Society? ""; ""THE AGRICULTURAL EFFECTS OF DEFORESTATION""; ""OVERGRAZING AND THE LOSS OF GRASSLAND""; ""THE COST OF SOIL EROSION""; ""THE CHANGING POPULATION/LAND RELATIONSHIP""; ""WATER FOR BREAD""
- ""THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROSPECT""""CLIMATE AND FOOD""; ""TWO SCENARIOS""; ""THE SOCIAL EFFECTS""; ""A NEW FOOD ERA""; ""13 Impacts of Future Sea Level Rise ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""References""; ""14 Threats To Biological Diversity As The Earth Warms ""; ""BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY""; ""THE NATURE OF THE ECOLOGICALLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES""; ""SPECIES' RANGES SHIFT IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""MAGNITUDE OF PROJECTED LATITUDINAL SHIFTS""; ""MECHANISMS UNDERLYING RANGE SHIFTS""; ""DISPERSAL RATES AND BARRIERS""; ""SYNERGY OF HABITAT DESTRUCTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE""