Conserv. , p. 90, Spring 1994. Chapter topics include the loss of stratospheric ozone and health effects of increased ultraviolet radiation, and possible effects of climate change on health. The first of a new series of inexpensive and timely publications. Reviewed by E.B. Worthington in Environ. 190-191, Summer 1994, who notes that the volume contains over a dozen readable articles by prominent commentators.
Several chapters relate directly or indirectly to climate change.
Provides a first step in identifying and combining the principles of these fields on a fundamental level. Contains the first world food projections to take account of factors such as leveling off in the world fish catch, increasing scarcity of irrigation water in major food producing regions, and the diminishing response of crops to added fertilizer. If these and other trends, such as population growth, continue at present rates, food security will replace military security as the principal preoccupation of national governments. However, other scenarios would enable the deteriorating relationship between humans and natural systems to reverse. A comprehensive book containing a section on the effects of volcanoes and volcanic gases on climate.