Atlas of the environment
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, OX:
Helicon,
c1992..
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| Edition: | New ed.. |
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Table of Contents:
- Major biomes, climatic regions and land use
- Human numbers
- The urban revolution
- Food production and consumption
- Drinking water and sanitation
- Health
- The education gap
- GNP and the debt squeeze
- Industrialization and development
- Indigenous people and refugees
- Deserts and desertification
- Freshwater : abundance and scarcity
- Freshwater pollution
- Tropical forest destruction
- The tropical timber trade
- The fuelwood crisis
- Damaged watersheds
- Temperate forests under threat
- Acid rain
- Urban air pollution
- The greenhouse effect
- The ozone layer
- Toxic and hazardous wastes
- The spread of agrochemicals
- Natural and man-made disasters
- Fossil fuel resources and energy conservation
- Nuclear energy
- Renewable energy resources
- Biological diversity and genetic resources
- Areas of endemism
- Protected areas and national parks
- Major conservation efforts
- Wildlife trade
- Migration
- The world's wetlands
- The world's fisheries
- Whales and whaling
- Mangroves, coral reefs and seagrasses
- Mineral resources of the sea
- Pollution of the seas
- The Arctic
- Antarctica.