One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment

by Cheryl Simon Silver, National Academy of Sciences, Ruth S. Defries, et al.

Book Overview

Written for nonscientists, One Earth, One Future can help individuals understand the basic science behind changes in the global environment and the resulting policy implications that the population of the entire planet must face.

The volume describes the earth as a unified system--exploring the interactions between the atmosphere, land, and water and the snowballing impact that human activity is having on the system--and presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309046327
• ISBN13: 9780309046329
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of our global environmental situation

This book, though now a decade old, still provides the interested reader with an understandable overview of a range of environmental change that we face.The book is a publication of the National Academy of Sciences, and was written with a non-technical, but educated audience in mind. The topics are still pertinent, the concepts and problems are well defined, and possible solutions presented still bear consideration.If you are interested in the environment, and changes that we are faced with, you ought to read this book. Topics include global warming, feeding the human population, forests and deforestation, acidification of water resources, and more.The afterword by Gro Harlem Grundtland is a fitting end to this book. An excellent book that still bears consideration.