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