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Solutions for an environment in peril
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- Creator
- edited by Anthony B. Wolbarst
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- xv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801877172, 9780801865947, 0801865948, 9780801877179
- OCLC
- ocm51491902, ocm44619364
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. I. Introduction. Ch. 1. The Climate for Environmentalism: Principles for the New Millennium / Kathryn S. Fuller -- Pt. II. Drivers of Change: Population, Resources, and Sustainability. Ch. 2. Environment, Population, Sustainable Development: Where Do We Go from Here? Ch. 3. Protection, Yes. But against Whom? For Whom? / Garrett Hardin. Ch. 4. Is the Population Explosion Over? / Ben J. Wattenberg -- Pt. III. Agents of Change: Government. Ch. 5. Ethics and Social Regulation in America / William D. Ruckelshaus. Ch. 6. U.S. Environmental Conservation, Preservation, and Restoration Agency / David R. Brower -- Pt. IV. Agents of Change: The Private Sector. Ch. 7. Community-Based Conservation / Jon Roush. Ch. 8. How to Save the World ... or at Least Our Corner of It / William H. Meadows. Ch. 9. What Is to Be Done about the Environment? / Ted Turner -- Pt. V. Incentives for Change: Engaging the Business Community. Ch. 10. Confronting Biotic Impoverishment / Thomas E. Lovejoy. Ch. 11. How Not to Parachute More Cats: Saving the Earth for Fun and Profit / Amory B. Lovins. Ch. 12. Free-Market Environmentalism: Protecting the Environment via Private Property / Fred L. Smith, Jr. -- Pt. VI. Tools for Managing Change: Mathematical Models, Risk Analysis, and Communication. Ch. 13. Human-Caused Climate Warming: Implications for Practically Everything / Jerry D. Mahlman. Ch. 14. Future Directions in Environmental Risk Analysis / Max Baucus. Ch. 15. Risk Communication: Evolution and Revolution / Vincent T. Covello and Peter M. Sandman -- Pt. VII. Hope. Ch. 16. Symbols of Hope for Environmental Sustainability / Jane Goodall -- App. The EPA's Seven Cardinal Rules of Effective Risk Communication