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The Fragile Environment
The Darwin College Lectures

Part of Darwin College Lectures

Editors:
L. E. Friday, Newnham College, Cambridge
R. A. Laskey, Darwin College, Cambridge

Andrew Goudie, Norman Myers, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Robert May, Roger Whitehead, Partha Dasgupta, Bert Bolin, Gordon Wells

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Date Published: May 1991
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521422666

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No one today can afford to ignore the impact of the human species on its environment. In this topical volume, distinguished international authors identify and analyze areas of rapid and serious change, and outline approaches to some of the outstanding fundamental questions concerning the environment. The opening chapter places the present environmental crisis in a chronological perspective, exploring the changing impact of human populations on the environment since prehistoric times, with particular reference to forest cover, soil erosion and animal extinctions. The contributors then focus in detail on the future of the forests, the impact of man on the animal species and his coexistence with them, on the problems of famine and the Earth's exhaustible resources, and on the likely effect of man's activities on the atmosphere and global climatic patterns. In closing, a NASA scientist puts these and other environmental problems into a new perspective, as the environment is examined from space.
- Luxuriously produced book
- Of interest to anyone concerned with the problems caused by the present rapid destruction of the global environment
- International contributors
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"The Fragile Environment identifies and analyzes areas of rapid and serious change and outlines approaches to some of the outstanding questions concerning the environment." Biology Digest
"I doubt if there are many better short guides to the debate. Written by scientists for laymen, the book gives you not only the technical essentials but the perspective of people who really understand the problems and whose advice will influence the answers." The Financial Times
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Product details
- Date Published: May 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521422666
- length: 212 pages
- dimensions: 248 x 175 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.466kg
- contains: 120 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Editorial note
Preface
1. The changing human impact Andrew Goudie
2. The future of forests Norman Myers
3. Attitudes to animals Marian Stamp Dawkins
4. How many species? Robert May
5. Famine Roger Whitehead
6. Exhaustible resources Partha Dasgupta
7. Changing climates Bert Bolin
8. Observing earth's environment from space Gordon Wells
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Editors
L. E. Friday, Newnham College, Cambridge
R. A. Laskey, Darwin College, Cambridge
Contributors
Andrew Goudie, Norman Myers, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Robert May, Roger Whitehead, Partha Dasgupta, Bert Bolin, Gordon Wells