Environment 05/06 / editor, John Allen. - Dubuque, Iowa : McGraw-Hill Education, c2006. - xvi, 239 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. - Annual editions .

How many planets? A survey of the global environment -- Five meta-trends changing the world / Crimes of (a) global nature / Advocating for the environment : local dimensions of transnational networks / Rescuing a planet under stress / Globalizing greenwash / Population and consumption : what we know, what we need to know / Economy for the Earth / Factory farming in the developing world / Why race matters in the fight for a healthy planet / Will Frankenfood save the planet? / Powder keg / Personalized energy : the next paradigm / Renewable energy : a viable choice / Hydrogen : waiting for the revolution / What is nature worth? / Strangers in our mist : the problem of invasive alien species / Markets for biodiversity services : potential roles and challenges / On the termination of species / Where have all the farmers gone? / What's a river for? / Human thirst / Will the world run dry? Global water and food security / Fire fight / Agricultural pesticides in developing countries / Quest for clean water / Human biomonitoring of environmental chemicals / Little rocket fuel with your salad? / Global warming as a weapon of mass destruction / David Pearce Snyder -- Lisa Mastny, Hilary French -- Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues -- Lester R. Brown -- Pamela Foster -- Robert W. Kates -- Lester R. Brown -- Danielle Nierenberg -- Jennifer Hattam -- Jonathan Rauch -- Keith Kloor -- Stephen M. Millett -- Antonia V. Herzog, Timothy E. Lipman, Jennifer L. Edwards, Daniel M. Kammen -- Bill Keenan -- Edward O. Wilson -- Jeffrey A. McNeely -- Michael Jenkins, Sara J. Scherr, Mira Inbar -- W. Wayt Gibbs -- Brian Halweil -- Bruce Barcott -- Don Hinrichsen -- Mark W. Rosegrant, Ximing Cai, Sarah A. Cline -- Paul Trachtman -- Sylvia I. Karlsson -- Joseph Orlins, Anne Wherly -- Ken Sexton, Larry L. Needham, James L. Pirkle -- Gene Ayres -- Bruce E. Johansen.

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Environmental sciences.
Ciencias Ambientales
Protección del medio ambiente
Ecología
Environmental protection.
Nature conservation.
Ecology.

QH 541.145 / E61 2006

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