Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility

by Vaclav Smil

Book Overview

The magnitude and rapidity of global environmental change threatens the perpetuation of life on Earth. Many aspects of this crisis are familiar to us - the destruction of tropical rainforests, the hole in the Antarctic ozone, desertification, soil erosion - yet we avoid the underlying challenge of a rapidly deteriorating ecological system and the breadth and complexity of responses demanded.
Integrating an analysis of both social and environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415098866
• ISBN13: 9780415098861
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"