One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment

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One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990)
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Front Matter (R1-R12)

1. Introduction (1-12)

The Earth as a System (13-14)

2. A New Science of the Earth (15-19)

3. Lessons from the Geologic Past (20-30)

4. System Interactions: Atmosphere, Oceans, Land, and Humans (31-48)

5. Humanity: An Agent of Global Environmental Change (49-60)

The Faces of Global Eniornmental Change (61-62)

6. Global Warming (63-77)

7. Food, Water, and Changing Climate (78-89)

8. Coastlines and Rising Seas (90-102)

9. The Ozone Layer and Ultraviolet Radiation (103-115)

10. Vanishing Forests and Vanishing Species (116-130)

11. Lakes, Forests, and Acid Deposition (131-144)

Afterword (145-158)

Appendixes (159-160)

A. Selected Reading (161-162)

B. Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future: Agenda and Speakers (163-166)

C. Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members (167-168)

D. Letter on Global Environmental Change to President-Elect George Bush from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine (169-186)

Index (187-196)