Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 312
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-8420-5048-7 • Hardback • October 2002 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-0-7425-8183-8 • eBook • October 2002 • $34.00 • (£25.00)
David E. Lorey is director of the U.S.-Latin American Relations Program at the Hewlett Foundation.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Driving Forces
Chapter 3 Environment and Health: Population, Consumption, and the Environment
Chapter 4 Food Security, Population, and Environment
Chapter 5 Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know
Part 6 Water
Chapter 7 Water for Food Production: Will There Be Enough in 2025?
Chapter 8 Water Wars
Chapter 9 Water and Conflict in Asia?
Chapter 10 Life—or Death—for the Salton Sea?
Part 11 Global Climate and Atmosphere
Chapter 12 Synthesis of Scientific-Technical Information Relevant to Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention
Chapter 13 Shadows of the Climate Future
Chapter 14 Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Causes and Consequences
Part 15 Biodiversity
Chapter 16 Losing Strands in the Web of Life
Chapter 17 Riches from the Rainforest
Chapter 18 Dying Seas
Part 19 Sustainable Solutions
Chapter 20 Easter Island's End
Chapter 21 Neotropical Restoration Biology
Chapter 22 What Are Ecosystem Services?
Chapter 23 Marine Ecosystem Services
Chapter 24 Environmentally Sustainable Business Practices
Chapter 25 NGOs and the Environment: From Knowledge to Action
Chapter 26 The Real Impacts of Household Consumption
Chapter 27 Suggested Readings
With selections from many leading scholars, Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-first Century is an accessible introduction to critical global environmental issues. While providing reviews of key issues such as water, climate, and biodiversity, it also addresses the causes and solutions to problems in ways that empower students to understand and act to solve global environmental challenges. This book will be especially useful for instructors of basic environmental courses who seek to combine an understanding of both the social and scientific aspects of global environmental issues.
— Diana Liverman, University of Arizona
This concise volume presents an excellent synopsis of many of the key articles describing the Earth's condition. In convenient form, this book presents the selections in such a way that they can easily be used for undergraduate courses. Any active ecologist or student of biology would have need to refer to many of these. By exposing undergraduate students to these articles, careers in biology will be stimulated and enhanced. Outstandingly useful!
— Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden
David Lorey has put together a masterful and informative compilation of the best of current thought on the broad environmental challenges facing humans in our immediate future. Most importantly, he also includes ideas as to sustainable solutions. Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-first Century is readily accessible to the general reader and should be required reading for policy makers and the public alike.
— Carol Boggs, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University