1st Edition

The Earth's Fragile Systems Perspectives On Global Change

    109 Pages
    by Routledge

    109 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Earth's Fragile Systems is concerned with some of the most pressing and worrying of the problems afflicting our globe, problems that have been discussed in various forums and are well known not to be simple intellectually, practically or politically.

    Foreword -- Editors' Note -- Tropical Forests: A Resource in Jeopardy -- Dimensions of a New Vulnerability: The Significance of Large-scale Urbanization in Developing Countries -- The Heating Up of the Climate -- Greening of the Desert -- What Happened to the Energy Crisis? A Comment on the Global Commentary Papers -- About the IFIAS

    Biography

    Thorkil Kristensen, Johan Peter Paludan