An illustrated overview of the sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues surrounding their distribution and demand.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Chadwick Dearing Oliver is the Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry at Yale University, Connecticut. His research focuses on global issues of landscape management, and he has considerable experience advising public and private forest resource organizations in the United States and abroad. He is the author of the highly cited book Forest Stand Dynamics, now in its second edition (1996).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part I. Introduction, Dynamic Systems, and Change: 1. Socio-environmental systems 2. A perspective on dynamic systems 3. Change, sustainability, and resilience Part II. People: 4. Where people live, communicate, and interact 5. People, societies, populations, and changes 6. Resources, governments, and other social influences Part III. Climates: 7. Global distribution of climates 8. Greenhouse gases, atmosphere, and climates 9. Past and future climate changes Part IV. Landforms: 10. Landforms and soils 11. Bedrock landforms 12. Landforms of transported materials Part V. Biodiversity: 13. Biodiversity: individual species 14. Biodiversity: communities and landscapes 15. Robust and threatened species, communities 16. Managing biodiversity Part VI. Water: 17. The hydrologic cycle 18. The annual hydrograph and water use 19. Managing and mitigating the hydrologic system Part VII. Agriculture: 20. Food groups and nutrition 21. Agriculture and the green revolution 22. Future agriculture production and distribution Part VIII. Energy: 23. Energy sources, the energy cycle, exergy 24. Conserving energy and renewable energy 25. Future energy: reducing fossil fuel use Part IX. Minerals: 26. Rocks and mineral properties, mining 27. Rocks and minerals: production, use, and distribution Part X. Forests: 28. Forests, ecosystem services, and timber 29. Forest distribution, area, and volume changes 30. Silviculture, forest degradation, and landscape management Part XI. Perspective: 31. Integrating the environment, resources, and people Appendix I. Country groups used in analyses Appendix II. Elements, chemical symbols, atomic numbers, and masses Index.
Preface Part I. Introduction, Dynamic Systems, and Change: 1. Socio-environmental systems 2. A perspective on dynamic systems 3. Change, sustainability, and resilience Part II. People: 4. Where people live, communicate, and interact 5. People, societies, populations, and changes 6. Resources, governments, and other social influences Part III. Climates: 7. Global distribution of climates 8. Greenhouse gases, atmosphere, and climates 9. Past and future climate changes Part IV. Landforms: 10. Landforms and soils 11. Bedrock landforms 12. Landforms of transported materials Part V. Biodiversity: 13. Biodiversity: individual species 14. Biodiversity: communities and landscapes 15. Robust and threatened species, communities 16. Managing biodiversity Part VI. Water: 17. The hydrologic cycle 18. The annual hydrograph and water use 19. Managing and mitigating the hydrologic system Part VII. Agriculture: 20. Food groups and nutrition 21. Agriculture and the green revolution 22. Future agriculture production and distribution Part VIII. Energy: 23. Energy sources, the energy cycle, exergy 24. Conserving energy and renewable energy 25. Future energy: reducing fossil fuel use Part IX. Minerals: 26. Rocks and mineral properties, mining 27. Rocks and minerals: production, use, and distribution Part X. Forests: 28. Forests, ecosystem services, and timber 29. Forest distribution, area, and volume changes 30. Silviculture, forest degradation, and landscape management Part XI. Perspective: 31. Integrating the environment, resources, and people Appendix I. Country groups used in analyses Appendix II. Elements, chemical symbols, atomic numbers, and masses Index.
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