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Human footprints on the global environment : threats to sustainability /

"The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosa, Eugene A. (Eugene Anthony), 1941-2013
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Global transformations: paSSAGE to a new ecological era / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz
  • World risk society as cosmopolitan society: ecological questions in a framework of manufactured uncertainties / Ulrich Beck
  • Human driving forces of global change: dominant perspectives / Thomas Dietz, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York
  • Progress in the study of land use/cover change and the outlook for the next decade / Emilio F. Moran
  • The effectiveness of international environmental regimes / Oran R. Young
  • Uncommon ground: critical perspectives on common property / Bonnie J. McCay and Svein Jentoft
  • Vulnerability of coupled human-natural systems: a look backward and forward / Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz.