| Description |
xi, 268 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Global environmental accord |
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Global environmental accords.
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| Contents |
1. From limits to growth to ecological security / Dennis Pirages -- 2. The future is not what is used to be : world population trends / Robert Engelman, Richard P. Cincotta, Amy Coen and Kali-Ahset Amen -- 3. Reflections on an aging global population / Paul J. Runci and Chester L. Cooper -- 4. Global water prospects / Ken Conca -- 5. Food policy : underfed or overfed? / Marc J. Cohen -- 6. Energy, security, and cooperation over the next quarter century / Heather Conley and Warren Phillips -- 7. Renewable-energy technologies / Gary Cook and Eldon Boes -- 8. Future socioeconomic and political challenges of global climate change / Matthias Ruth -- 9. Global climate change : policy challenges, policy responses / Jacob Park -- 10. Forest degradation, the timber trade, and tropical-region plantations / Patricia Marchak -- 11. Biodiversity and ecological security / David W. Inouye -- 12. Twenty-nine days : responding to a finite world / Ken Cousins |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Global 2000 Study (U.S.)
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Environmental policy.
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
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| Author |
Pirages, Dennis.
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Cousins, Ken, 1964-
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| LC no. |
2004064959 |
| ISBN |
0262162318 alkaline paper |
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0262661896 paperback alkaline paper |
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