Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-150).
I. Setting -- II. Wakeup call -- III. Roots of global ecology -- IV. Institutional development of the International Geosphere Biosphere program -- V. New technology -- VI. Global change and terrestrial ecosystems-CO2 -- VII. Biodiversity and global change -- VIII. Rearranging the earth's biota -- IX. Where we have been and where we are going in earth system science -- X. The new role of institutions and individuals