Research Catalog
Planet management
- Title
- Planet management / edited by Michael Williams.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | TD170 .P57 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 256 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- "Planned and produced by Andromeda (Oxford) Limited"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Managing the World's Environments -- People in the Environment -- Major Environmental Issues -- Prospects for Management -- Regions of the World -- Canada and the Arctic: preserving a wilderness -- The United States: the costs of affluence -- Central America and the Caribbean: stock-piling ecological problems -- South America: burning environmental issues -- The Nordic Countries: threatened lakes and forests -- The British Isles: tackling industry's aftermath -- France and its neighbors: dilemmas of a modern age -- The Low Countries: the weight of numbers -- Spain and Portugal: coping with rapid changes -- Italy and Greece: a well-used land -- Central Europe: a race against time -- Eastern Europe: the ravages of progress -- Northern Eurasia: misuse on a vast scale -- The Middle East: coping with aridity -- Northern Africa: threats to a fragile land -- Central Africa: on the brink of disaster -- Southern Africa: a damaged Eden -- The Indian Subcontinent: challenges of extreme dimensions -- China and its neighbors: holding nature in check -- Southeast Asia: rapidly diminishing assets -- Japan and Korea: counting the costs of success -- Australasia, Oceania and Antarctica: in fragile isolation.
- ISBN
- 0195209451
- LCCN
- 92034497
- OCLC
- 26850765
- ocm26850765
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries