Environmental issues in the 1990s / edited by A.M. Mannion and S.R. Bowlby.
Contributor(s): Mannion, Antoinette M
| Bowlby, S. R. (Sophie R.).
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BookPublisher: Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley & Sons, 1992Description: xiv, 349 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0471933260 .Subject(s): Human ecology | Environmental protection | Economic development -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 363.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 363.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00013090 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Presents a wide variety of both the physical and social processes which affect the environment. Divided into three sections beginning with the existing frameworks for examining people/environment relationships. The second part covers global issues, including a chapter on the environmental and cultural changes of the last 2-3 million years. Also discusses climatic change, deforestation, marine pollution as well as current and future patterns of energy production and consumption. Concludes with local environmental impacts of resource use and misuse such as industry and fossil fuel energy consumption, wetland destruction, eutrophication, desertification and more.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section I: Ideas and concepts -- Section II: Global issues -- Part (a) Change in the physical environment -- Part (b) Change in societies -- Section III: Local impacts and reactions -- Part (a) Change in the physical environment -- Part (b) Change in societies -- Section IV: Possibilities.