The Fragile Environment (Paperback)

L.E. Friday

ISBN 10: 0521422663 / ISBN 13: 9780521422666

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991

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Paperback. 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. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fragile Environment (Paperback)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521422663
• ISBN 13: 9780521422666
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

No one today can afford to ignore the impact of the human species on its environment. In this topical volume, distinguished international authors identify and analyze areas of rapid and serious change, and outline approaches to some of the outstanding fundamental questions concerning the environment. The opening chapter places the present environmental crisis in a chronological perspective, exploring the changing impact of human populations on the environment since prehistoric times, with particular reference to forest cover, soil erosion and animal extinctions. The contributors then focus in detail on the future of the forests, the impact of man on the animal species and his coexistence with them, on the problems of famine and the Earth's exhaustible resources, and on the likely effect of man's activities on the atmosphere and global climatic patterns. In closing, a NASA scientist puts these and other environmental problems into a new perspective, as the environment is examined from space.

Book Description

Placing the present environmental crisis in a chronological perspective, the changing impact of human populations on the environment is explored from prehistoric times on, with particular reference to forest cover, soil erosion and animal extinction.