
Global warming, ozone depletion, drought, acid rain - their causes are viewed as extraordinarily complex; their effects are assumed catastrophic. Global Environmental Issues provides the key to understanding our potential environmental crisis through an analysis...

Discusses the problems - the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, acid rain, nuclear winter and drought - and places them in their common context of climatolgy. So underlining the global rather than the individual importance of these problems.

This book provides a balanced account of the global environmental issues which threaten our society and which we neglect at our peril. Analysing both social and environmental components of the issues - global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain and drought - the book offers...