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The Fragile environment : the Darwin College lectures / edited by Laurie Friday and Ronald Laskey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Darwin College lectures ; 2.
- Darwin College lectures ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology.
- Nature conservation.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Darwin College lecture series.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The changing human impact / Andrew Goudie
- The future of forests / Norman Myers
- Attitudes to animals / Marian Stamp Dawkins
- How many species? / Robert May
- Famine / Roger Whitehead
- Exhaustible resources / Partha Dasgupta
- Changing Climates / Bert Bolin
- Observing earth's environment from space / Gordon Wells.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-00611-X
- 0-511-61199-4
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