Title: Sustaining earth : response to the environmental threat /
Authors: Angell, D. J. R.; Comer, J. D.; Wilkinson, M. L. N.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Economic development Environmental aspects; Environmental protection.
Contents: Endangered earth -- Threatened Islands, threathened earth : early professional science and the historical origins of global environmental concerns -- Changing climate and problems of prediction -- Acid precipitation -- Deforestation : a botanist's view -- Agricultural pollution : from costs and causes to sustainable practices -- Halocarbons and stratospheric ozone : a warning from Antarctica -- Changes in perception -- Religion and the environment -- Industry and the environment : a question of balance -- OECD nations and sustainable development -- Common future-common challenge : aid policy and the environment -- Environmental advance and the European community -- United Nations system and sustainable development -- Diplomacy and sustainable development -- Interpreting the signals -- Sustainable development : meeting the growth imperative for the 21st Century.