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
- Date Published: May 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521422666
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The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership.
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- Of interest to anyone concerned with the problems caused by the present rapid destruction of the global environment
- International contributors
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'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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- 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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