Changing the Global Environment
Perspectives on Human Involvement
- 1st Edition - February 28, 1989
- Editors: Daniel B. Botkin, Margriet F. Caswell, John E. Estes
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 1 1 8 7 3 0 - 9
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 3 6 4 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 6 0 6 5 - 5
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Request a sales quoteChanging the Global Environment: Perspectives on Human Involvement focuses on the extent of global environmental changes and the extent to which technology can be employed to improve the global environment. This book is divided into three sections. Section I sets forth a broad perspective on specific conceptual issues of concern such as the sustainable use of the global ocean; deforestation and extinction of species; large-scale alteration of biological productivity due to transported pollutants; and soil degradation and conversion of tropical rainforests. The second section discusses technologies of remote sensing, computer-based data systems, and advanced chemical analytical techniques. The interactions among social, environmental, and economic goals and the role that technological advances might play in attaining these goals are deliberated in Section III. This publication is valuable to environmentalists and students interested in how technologies can change man’s perception of the environment.
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Perspectives on the Biosphere
1. Science and the Global Environment
2. Man's Role in Managing the Global Environment
3. The Impact of Life on the Planet Earth: Some General Considerations
4. From Planetary Atmospheres to Microbial Communities: A Stroll Through Space and Time
5. Sustainable Use of the Global Ocean
6. Deforestation and Extinction of Species
7. Large-Scale Alteration of Biological Productivity Due to Transported Pollutants
8. Food Problems in the Next Decades
9. Soil Degradation and Conversion of Tropical Rainforests
10. Nuclear Winter, Current Understanding
II. Some of the Ways We Can Learn About Our Global Environment
11. Modern Chemical Technologies for Assessment and Solution of Environmental Problems
12. The Search for Nonrenewable Resources in the Next Twenty Years
13. Remote Sensing of Environmental Change in the Developing World
14. The Application of Remote Sensing in South America: Perspectives for the Future Based on Recent Experiences
15. Geographic Information Systems and Natural Resource Issues at the State Level
16. The Global Environment Monitoring System and the Need for a Global Resource Data Base
17. The Use of Remote Sensing to Assess Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Facilities
18. Linking Ecological Networks and Models to Remote Sensing Programs
19. Observing the Earth in the Next Decades
III. Social and Economic Policy Issues
20. Sustainable Futures: Some Economic Issues
21. Ethical and Economic Systems for Managing the Global Commons
22. Managing Natural Resources: The Local Level
23. Social Values and Environmental Quality
24. Technology and the Environment
25. Management of High Technology: A Cure or Cause of Global Environmental Changes?
26. Better Resource Management Through the Adoption of New Technologies
27. The Search for Effective Pollution Control Policies
Index
- No. of pages: 480
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 28, 1989
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780121187309
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483236421
- eBook ISBN: 9781483260655
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