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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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""GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""HUMAN CAUSES OF GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD""; ""DATA NEEDS""; ""HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM""; ""1 Prologue""; ""THREE GLOBAL CHANGES""; ""GREENHOUSE GASES AND CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS AND THE STRATOSPHERIC OZONE LAYER""; ""AMAZONIAN DEFORESTATION AND THE LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY""; ""IMPLICATIONS""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK"" |
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""2 Global Change and Social Science""""GLOBAL CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS""; ""TRENDS IN GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND HUMAN SYSTEMS""; ""QUESTIONS FOR NATURAL SCIENCE, QUESTIONS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE""; ""CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE""; ""KNOWLEDGE BASE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE""; ""SETTING PRIORITIES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3 Human Causes of Global Change""; ""IDENTIFYING THE MAJOR PROXIMATE CAUSES""; ""A TREE-STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM""; ""LIMITATIONS OF TREE-STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING"" |
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""EXPLAINING THE PROXIMATE CAUSES: THREE CASES""""THE AMERICAN REFRIGERATION INDUSTRY""; ""COAL COMBUSTION IN CHINA""; ""Causes of Present Coal Burning""; ""Determinants of Future Coal Burning""; ""FOREST CLEARING IN THE AMAZON BASIN""; ""Causes of Deforestation""; ""Alternative Futures for Amazonia""; ""EXPLAINING THE PROXIMATE CAUSES: SOCIAL DRIVING FORCES""; ""POPULATION GROWTH""; ""Research Needs""; ""ECONOMIC GROWTH""; ""Research Needs""; ""TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE""; ""Research Needs""; ""POLITICAL-ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS""; ""Research Needs""; ""ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS""; ""Research Needs"" |
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""CONCLUSIONS""""THE PROXIMATE CAUSES""; ""SOCIAL DRIVING FORCES""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH""; ""NOTES""; ""4 Human Consequences and Responses""; ""UNDERSTANDING HUMAN CONSEQUENCES""; ""SOME DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN RESPONSE""; ""Responses to Experienced Versus Anticipated Change""; ""Deliberate Responses Versus Actions with Incidental Effects""; ""Coordinated Versus Uncoordinated Responses""; ""Interventions at Different Points in the Process""; ""THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF CONFLICT""; ""A Current Controversy: To Mitigate or Not to Mitigate?""; ""Implications of Conflict About Human Response"" |
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""HUMAN RESPONSE: THREE CASES""""INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF OZONE-DEPLETING GASES""; ""THE U.S. ENERGY CONSERVATION ACHIEVEMENTS OF 1973-1985""; ""Preexisting Trends""; ""Uncoordinated Responses to Recent Events""; ""Policy Responses and Implementation""; ""Implications for Future Climate Change""; ""THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF REGIONAL DROUGHT IN THE SAHEL""; ""Different Droughts, Different Responses""; ""Relationship of Policy to Indigenous Response Systems""; ""SEVEN HUMAN SYSTEMS""; ""INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION, JUDGMENT, AND ACTION""; ""Individual Judgment and Choice"" |
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""Aggregated Individual Responses"" |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Human ecology -- Research.
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Global environmental change.
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Environmental protection -- Research.
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Environmental policy.
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environmental policy.
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Environmental policy
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Environmental protection -- Research
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Global environmental change
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Human ecology -- Research
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Druckman, Daniel
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Young, Oran R
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| ISBN |
9780309583428 |
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030958342X |
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