Intro -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Earth Sounds -- Impatient Earth -- Climate 1970-2020 -- Politics and Law -- Carbon -- Everyday Biodiversity -- Energy -- Forests -- Environmental Economics -- Air -- Geoengineering -- Ice -- Imaging Earth -- Mother Earth -- Sea Level Rise, 1970-2070: A View from the Future -- Climate Negotiations -- Weather -- Knowing Earth -- Fish -- The Global Chemical Experiment -- Land -- Oceans 2020 -- Earth and Plastic -- Fresh Water -- Media -- Space Junk -- Saving the Boat -- Index -- Author Biographies -- The Publishing Team.
Written by world-leading thinkers on the front-lines of global change research and policy, this multi-disciplinary collection maintains a dual focus: some essays investigate specific facets of the physical Earth system, while others explore the social, legal and political dimensions shaping the human environmental footprint.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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