| Description |
1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Darwin College lecture series |
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Darwin College lecture series
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| Contents |
The changing human impact / Andrew Goudie -- The future of forests / Norman Myers -- Attitudes to animals / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- How many species? / Robert May -- Famine / Roger Whitehead -- Exhaustible resources / Partha Dasgupta -- Changing Climates / Bert Bolin -- Observing earth's environment from space / Gordon Wells |
| Summary |
The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership |
| Notes |
Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1987 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecology.
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Nature conservation.
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Conservation of natural resources.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Conservation of natural resources
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Ecology
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Nature conservation
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Natuurbehoud.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Friday, Laurie, 1955-
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Laskey, R. A
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| LC no. |
88028551 |
| ISBN |
051100611X |
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9780511006111 |
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0521422663 |
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9780521422666 |
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0521363373 |
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9780521363372 |
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0511611994 |
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9780511611995 |
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