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Title Planet under stress : the challenge of global change / edited by Constance Mungall & Digby J. McLaren for the Royal Society of Canada
Published Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1990

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 W'PONDS  333.9516 MUn/Pus 1991  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents Our planet observed / William S. Fyfe -- Dynamics of planet earth / William S. Fyfe -- The changing atmosphere / Gordon McKay and Henry Hengeveld -- Our fragile inheritance / W. Richard Peltier -- Approaching today / John V. Matthews, Jr. -- The polar regions / Fred Roots -- The tempering seas / Lawrence A. Mysak and Charles A. Lin -- Fresh waters in cycle / D.W. Schindler and S.E. Bayley -- Forests / J.S. Maini -- Grasslands into deserts? / John Stewart and Holm Tiessen -- Grounds for concern / Peter Timmerman -- People pressure / Susan A. McDaniel -- From technological fix to appropriate technology / Donna Smyth -- The missing tools / Robert Goodland and Herman Daly -- Surprise and opportunity / C.S. Holling and Stephen Bocking -- Peace, security and new forms of international governance / Fen Osler Hampson -- Summing it up / J. Stan Rowe
Analysis Environment Pollution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Biosphere.
Climatic changes.
Ecology.
Environmental protection.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Author McLaren, D. J. (Digby J.)
Mungall, Constance.
Royal Society of Canada.
LC no. cn 90093400
ISBN 0195407318