TY - BOOK AU - Kristensen,Thorkil AU - Paludan,Johan Peter TI - The Earth's Fragile Systems: Perspectives on Global Change SN - 9781000244212 AV - QH541 .E278 2019 U1 - 304.2 PY - 2019/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Ecology KW - Environmental protection KW - Nature-Effect of human beings on KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Editors' Note -- 1 Tropical Forests: A Resource in Jeopardy -- Comments -- 2 Dimensions of a New Vulnerability: The Significance of Large-scale Urbanization in Developing Countries -- Comments -- 3 The Heating Up of the Climate -- Comments -- Response to Comments -- 4 Greening of the Desert -- Comments -- Response to Comments -- What Happened to the Energy Crisis? A Comment on the Global Commentary Papers -- About the IFIAS N2 - The Earth's Fragile Systems is concerned with some of the most pressing and worrying of the problems afflicting our globe, problems that have been discussed in various forums and are well known not to be simple intellectually, practically or politically UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5825198 ER -