Australia, 82

Automobiles

fuel consumption, 48-49, 104-105, 122, 124, 133, 163

greenhouse gas emissions, 106-107

U.S. dependency, 88, 144, 175-176

B

Bangladesh, 18, 64

Beef production, 55, 71

Behavioral analysis, 21, 134

Behavioral decision research, 131-132

Behavioral science, 10, 25, 168, 171, 176, 236

Benefit-cost analysis, 192-193

Bias, 213, 215

Biological diversity, 24, 26

conflict over, 155, 247-248

data needs, 202-203

deforestation and, 17, 20-21, 25, 67-68, 99n.1, 99-100n.3

international cooperation, 248

mass extinctions, 29-30

mitigation of species loss, 107, 109, 112

research priorities, 40, 245-246

Biological sciences, 212, 216

Biomass burning, 46

Biomedical research, 224

Biosphere, 1, 26, 32

Bollen, K A., 215

Boom town development, 190

Brazil

data sampling, 219, 249

economic development policies, 20-21, 69, 70-71, 75, 93, 98, 241

energy consumption, 63

foreign debt, 71-72

land tenure, 70, 74, 93

resource use, 141

tropical deforestation, 67-75, 94, 109, 153, 155, 240

British Antarctic Survey, 54

C

California, 55, 57

Canada, 27, 36, 82

Cancer, 35, 151

skin cancer, 4, 28, 107, 117, 119, 201-202

''war on cancer,'' 224

Capitalism, 86-87, 89, 91, 94, 158, 177>

Carbon dioxide (CO₂)

data availability, 215

deforestation and, 17, 18, 48

emission modeling, 182, 184

emissions, China, 53, 60, 61, 64-65, 66, 155

emissions, Europe, 82

environmental effects, 27, 35

fossil fuel emissions, 17, 48, 60, 96, 245

greenhouse effect contribution, 18, 25, 28, 33, 45-46, 47, 50, 60, 64, 200, 245

human consequences, 31

human responses, 30, 105, 106-107, 110, 155, 163

Carbon tax, 21

Carbon tetrachloride, 19, 118

Carrier, Willis H., 56

Case studies, 186, 196, 215

Cataracts, 28

Cattle raising, 36, 69, 71, 72, 128

Catton, W. R., Jr., 90

Charleston, S.C., 54

Chemical industry, 119

Chicago, Ill., 55

China

agricultural land use, 74

carbon dioxide emissions, 53, 60, 61, 64-65, 66, 155

and CFC regulations, 19, 118-119, 153

coal burning, 60-67, 86, 87, 93, 94, 155-156

data sampling, 219, 249

energy intensity, 61-64, 65, 67, 95, 126, 174

Front Matter (R1-R12)

Summary (1-16)

1 Prologue (17-23)

2 Global Change and Social Science (24-43)

3 Human Causes of Global Change (44-100)

4 Human Consequences and Responses (101-166)

5 Problems of Theory and Method (167-199)

6 Data Needs (200-222)

7 Human Resources And Organizational Structures (223-234)

8 A National Research Program On The Human Dimensions Of Global Change (235-256)

References (257-292)

Index (293-308)