Global Change and Our Common Future : Papers from a Forum

Global Change and our Common Future -- Copyright -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- PART A SOCIETY'S STAKE IN GLOBAL CHANGE -- 1 Toward a Global Environmental Policy -- 2 Global Change and our Common Future: The Benjamin Franklin Lecture -- 3 Global Change and Carrying Capacity: Implications for Life on Earth -- DIRECT HUMAN IMPACTS -- GLOBAL WARMING -- MODELING GLOBAL CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- PART B THE EARTH SYSTEM -- 4 The Earth System -- 5 Mission to Planet Earth Revisited -- GLOBAL CHANGE IN THE LIMELIGHT -- GROWING INTEREST -- A SCIENTIFIC INITIATIVE -- OTHER INITIATIVES -- EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RESPONDS -- KEY ISSUES -- Redesigning Institutions -- Social Sciences and Engineering -- Developing Countries -- Financing -- CONTINUING QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- 6 Historical Perspectives: Climatic Changes Throughout the Millennia -- References for Additional Reading -- 7 Mathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Warming: How Much do we Know? -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- 8 The Earth's Fragile Ozone Shield -- HISTORY OF THE OZONE DEPLETION PROBLEM -- CURRENT THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF ANTARCTIC OZONE DEPLETION -- OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE -- METEOROLOGICAL PROCESSES: ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC -- IMPLICATIONS -- NOTES -- 9 Terrestrial Ecosystems -- INTRODUCTION -- TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS -- MODERN GLOBAL CHANGE AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- 10 Human Dimensions Of Global Environmental Change -- WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? -- WHAT IS BEING DONE? -- THE NATURE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON GLOBAL CHANGE -- THE RESEARCH AGENDA -- RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- SUMMARY -- 11 The Human Causes of Global Environmental Change -- PROXIMATE SOURCES OF CHANGE -- HUMAN DRIVING AND MITIGATING FORCES OF CHANGE -- Human Driving Forces.