Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 237 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300093209
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0300133448
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9780300093209
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9780300133448
Content:
Firor and Jacobsen present the strongest possible arguments about human population, climate change, and the relationship between Earth and human beings, discussing how people on Earth should act to stabilise human population, and why and how they should act to stabilise the composition of the atmosphere. Three arguments are offered in service of the ultimate goal that is to strike a new balance in which the scale of human activities is in keeping with the scale of natural systems
Content:
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1 One Vision of the Year 2050""; ""2 The New World of Population Policy""; ""3 Putting Cairo to Work""; ""4 U.S. Population Activism in the New Century""; ""5 A Warming World""; ""6 International Climate-Change Negotiations""; ""7 Creating a Stable Atmosphere""; ""8 Population and Climate Change Together""; ""Afterword: Dancing in the Crowded Greenhouse""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Firor, John Crowded greenhouse New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002
Language:
English
