The Fragile environment : the Darwin College lectures / edited by Laurie Friday and Ronald Laskey
- Published
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Additional Creators
- Friday, Laurie, 1955- and Laskey, R. A.
Access Online
- Series
- 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.
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780511611995 (ebook)
9780521363372 (hardback)
9780521422666 (paperback) - Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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