Research Catalog

Title

Regions at risk : comparisons of threatened environments / edited by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B.L. Turner II.

Publication

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Kasperson, Jeanne X.
• Kasperson, Roger E.
• Turner, B. L. (Billie Lee), 1945-

Description

ix, 588 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

UNU studies on critical environmental regions

Subject

• Environmental degradation

Note

• "This book has been published in cooperation with the Commission on Critical Environmental Situations and Regions, the International Geographical Union"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Critical environmental regions: concepts, distinctions, and issues / Roger E. Kasperson ... [et al.] -- Amazonia / Nigel J.H. Smith ... [et al.] -- The Aral Sea basin / Nikita F. Glazovsky -- The Nepal middle mountains / N.S. Jodha -- The Ukambani region of Kenya / Dianne Rocheleau, Patricia Benjamin, and Alex Diang'a -- The Llano Estacado of the American Southern High Plains / Elizabeth Brooks and Jacque Emel -- The Basin of Mexico / Adrián Guillermo Aguilar ... [et al.] -- The North Sea / Julie Argent and Timothy O'Riordan -- The Ordos Plateau of China / Hong Jiang ... [et al.] -- The eastern Sundaland region of South-East Asia / Lesley Potter, Harold Brookfield, and Yvonne Byron -- Comparisons and conclusions / B.L. Turner II ... [et al.]

Call Number

JFE 99-6933

ISBN

9280808486

OCLC

33600012

Title

Regions at risk : comparisons of threatened environments / edited by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B.L. Turner II.

Imprint

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c1995.

Series

UNU studies on critical environmental regions

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Kasperson, Jeanne X.

Kasperson, Roger E.

Turner, B. L. (Billie Lee), 1945-

Research Call Number

JFE 99-6933