Planet Earth: Problems and Prospects - Hardcover

Name: Planet Earth: Problems and Prospects
Author: Leith, James A.; Price, Raymond A.
ISBN: 9780773512924

Leith, James A.; Price, Raymond A.

9780773512924: Planet Earth: Problems and Prospects

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773512926 ISBN 13: 9780773512924

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995

View all copies of this ISBN edition

1 Used

From US$ 45.99

0 New

The conference took advantage of the confluence of meetings of the Royal Society of Canada, the Learned Societies of Canada, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Planet Earth, a compendium of papers presented at the conference, is the result. Contents Humankind: Agent and Victim of Global Change in the Geosphere-Biosphere System - Digby J. McLaren Our Common Future: World Development and the Environment - Alistair M. Taylor and Duncan M. Taylor Changes in Climates of the Past: Lessons for the Future - Michael B. McElroy World Hunger, Livelihoods, and the Environment - Gita Sen Species Impoverishment - M. Brock Fenton The Interface of Health, Population, and Development: The Ecology of Health - Rex Fendall Environmental Toxicology - Gabriel L. Plaa Aboriginal Peoples: The Canadian Experience? - Marlene Brant Castellano Science and Politics on Planet Earth - Michael Ignatieff.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

In 1991, a remarkable symposium brought together humanists, historians, earth scientists, biologists, medical scientists, physicians, sociologists, and Native people to discuss the problems facing planet Earth and identify solutions and ways to avert impending catastrophes. The conference took advantage of the confluence of meetings of the Royal Society of Canada, the Learned Societies of Canada, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Planet Earth, a compendium of papers presented at the conference, is the result of that meeting.