Human Impact On The Environment

Part 1 From small groups to large - the impact of hunting, farming, and cities: the impact of early people on their environment, Richard Klein; the impact of food production - short-term strategies and long-term consequences, Charles Redman; the epidemiology of civilization, Mark N. Cohen. Part 2 The industrial era - new societies, new technologies, new problems: the revolution in the family and the world we have made, David Levine; pollution and the emergence of industrial America, Martin Melosi; the coal question revisited - British energy prices and technology in long-term perspective, G.N. von Tunzelmann. Part 3 The environment goes global - issues of the late 20th century: global greenhouse effect - principles and human-induced causes, Ralph Cicerone; world forest watch, Roberto Pereira da Cunha; global water resources - the coming crisis, Peter Gleick. Part 4 Designing the future - coping with the crises: tropical forests and the future of the human species, James D. Nations; what we can learn from the amoeba, Jon H. Gibbons; creating an international process to address greenhouse warming - the integration of technology, economics and politics, William Nitze.