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Critical perspectives on planet earth
2007, The Rosen Pub. Group, Inc.
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 : The effects of climate change
1. "Spring forward" by Daniel Grossman
2. "On thin ice?" by Robert A. Bindschadler and Charles R. Bentley
3. "Making every drop count" by Peter H. Gleick
Chapter 2 : Threatened species and ecosystems
1. "Madagascar's lemurs" by Ian Tattersall
2. "The world's imperiled fish" by Carl Safina
3. "The puzzle of declining amphibian populations" by Andrew R. Blaustein and David B. Wake
4. "On the termination of species" by W. Wayt Gibbs
Chapter 3 : Human impacts: consequences for others and ourselves
1. "Human population grows up" by Joel E. Cohen
2. "Population, poverty and the local environment" by Partha S. Dasgupta
3. "Environmental change and violent conflict" by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Jeffrey H. Boutwell, and George W. Rathjens
Chapter 4 : Possible responses to environmental concerns
1. "The industrial ecology of the 21st century" by Robert A. Frosch
2. "Rethinking green consumerism" by Jared Hardner and Richard Rice
3. "More profit with less carbon" by Amory B. Lovins
4. "Urban planning in Curitiba" by Jonas Rabinovitch and Josef Leitman.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Scientific american critical anthologies on environment and climate
Genre
Juvenile literature.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
333.72
Library of Congress
QH543 .V54 2007, QH543.V54 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3415288M
Internet Archive
criticalperspect0000vieg
ISBN 10
1404206876
LCCN
2005031477
OCLC/WorldCat
62281680
Library Thing
4496988

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