EARTH FROM ABOVE : First Edition, 2002 Revised & Expanded Edition

Text/New & Bright. Green linen boards/Fine. DJ/New w/trace shelfwear. First published 1999 in French (La terre vue du ciel). This is the 2002, First Edition, 1st Printing, Revised & Expanded Edition, English translation. Lucid, educational, environmental aerial look at Earth at large for man to better know his role & responsibility --- a book, today, as relevant & as enlightening as when it went to print! Color photos from the lens of French environmentalist, journalist & photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand (1946 -), aloft in helicopters & hot air balloons. Funded as a long-term photographic project by United Nations (UNESCO) to ultimately made available in over 21 languages & adaptation to French television! 464 pgs, more than 200 photos, supported w/12 essays: 1, Building an Eco-Econmy; 2, World Population & the Environment; 3, Urban Landscapes, Landscapes of Urbanism; 4, Farmers of the World: The Price of Our Future; 5, Water: Humanity's Future; 6, Biodiversity: A Question of Survival; 7, A Plea for the Seas; 8, Changing Climates; 9, Renewable Energy; 10, Toward a Sustainable Development; 11, What Do We Do?; 12, The Earth in Numbers, followed by Afterward & Index.…