Rosa, Eugene A.

Human Footprints on the Global Environment : Threats to Sustainability. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (342 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Global Transformations -- 2 World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society -- 3 Human Driving Forces of Global Change -- 4 Progress in the Study of Land Use/Cover Change and the Outlook for the Next Decade -- 5 The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes -- 6 Uncommon Ground -- 7 Vulnerability of Coupled Human-Ecological Systems to Global Environmental Change -- 8 Human Dimensions of Coupled Human-Natural Systems -- About the Contributors -- Index.

State-of-the-art assessments of current research into the human dimensions of global environmental change and promising directions for future advancements.

9780262259163


Environmental policy -- International cooperation.
Sustainable development -- International cooperation.


Electronic books.

GE170.H84 2010

363.7/0526