Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Editors and Authors -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- I OVERVIEW -- 1 - Managing Global Environmental Change: An Introduction to the Volume -- 2 - Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion, and Climate Change: An Historical Overview -- II -...

The environmental system is characterized by an interplay of geophysical and geochemical processes that provide a setting for life. Now that human interventions are affecting the global system as a whole, it is important to distinguish between changes of natural origin and changes brought about...