1st Edition
Global Ecology Environmental Change and Social Flexibility
By Vaclav Smil
Copyright 1993
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The magnitude and rapidity of global environmental change threatens the perpetuation of life on Earth. Many aspects of this crisis are familiar to us - the destruction of tropical rainforests, the hole in the Antarctic ozone, desertification, soil erosion - yet we avoid the underlying challenge of a rapidly deteriorating ecological system and the breadth and complexity of responses demanded.... Read more
Chapter 1 ELUSIVE UNDERSTANDING; Chapter 2 EXISTENTIAL NECESSITIES; Chapter 3 ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; Chapter 4 EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES; Chapter 5 CASCADING COMPLICATIONS; Chapter 6 POSSIBLE OUTCOMES;
Biography
Vaclav Smil is Professor of Geography at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
` ... this direct, appealing book amounts to a personal statement by a cogent analyst, well supported ... by a penetrating and compact account of the facts.' - Scientific American
` ... it is thoughtful and well argumented. It deserves a wide readership.' - TEG News
