Global Change and Our Common Future:

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Publication Year:1989

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Front Matter	i-xiv
Part A: Society's Stake in Global Change	1-2	(skim)
1. Toward a Global Environmental Policy	3-9	(skim)
2. Global Change and Our Common Future: The Benjamin Frankline Lecture	10-18	(skim)
3. Global Change and Carrying Capacity: Implications for Life on Earth	19-28	(skim)
Part B: The Earth System	29-30	(skim)
4. The Earth System	31-33	(skim)
5. Mission to Planet Earth Revisited	34-49	(skim)
6. Historical Perspectives: Climatic Changes Throughout the Millennia	50-61	(skim)
7. Mathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Warming: How Much Do We Know?	62-72	(skim)
8. The Earth's Fragile Ozone Shield	73-77	(skim)
9. Terrestrial Ecosystems	78-83	(skim)
10. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change	84-89	(skim)
11. The Human Causes of Global Environmental Change	90-100	(skim)
Part C: Impacts of Global Change	101-102	(skim)
12. What Does Global Change Mean for Society?	103-124	(skim)
13. Impacts of Future Sea Level Rise	125-138	(skim)
14. Threats to Biological Diversity as the Earth Warms	139-158	(skim)
15. Deforestation and Its Role in Possible Changes in the Brazilian Amazon	159-171	(skim)
16. Impacts of Global Change	172-174	(skim)
Part D: Implications For Public Policy	175-176	(skim)
17. The Global Environment: A National Security Issue	177-186	(skim)
18. Implications for Public Policy: Options for Action	187-193	(skim)
19. View from the North	194-197	(skim)
20. View from the South	198-203	(skim)
21. Political Leadership and the Brundtland Report: What Are the Implications for Public Policy	204-208	(skim)
22. Global Warming: Is It Real and Should It Be Part of a Global Change Program?	209-220	(skim)
Appendixes	221-222	(skim)
A: Program -- Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future	223-225	(skim)
B: Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members	226-228	(skim)

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Global Change and Our Common Future includes 22 edited presentations from the Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future. The Forum, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and Sigma Xi, was organized to inform the public about the changes occurring in the global environment and the implications for public policy.

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