Global Change and Our Common Future

Committee on Global Change, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Part A: Society's Stake in Global Change; 3 1. Toward a Global Environmental Policy; 4 2. Global Change and Our Common Future: The Benjamin Frankline Lecture; 5 3. Global Change and Carrying Capacity: Implications for Life on Earth; 6 Part B: The Earth System; 7 4. The Earth System; 8 5. Mission to Planet Earth Revisited; 9 6. Historical Perspectives: Climatic Changes Throughout the Millennia; 10 7. Mathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Warming: How Much Do We Know?; 11 8. The Earth's Fragile Ozone Shield; 12 9. Terrestrial Ecosystems; 13 10. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; 14 11. The Human Causes of Global Environmental Change; 15 Part C: Impacts of Global Change; 16 12. What Does Global Change Mean for Society?; 17 13. Impacts of Future Sea Level Rise; 18 14. Threats to Biological Diversity as the Earth Warms; 19 15. Deforestation and Its Role in Possible Changes in the Brazilian Amazon; 20 16. Impacts of Global Change; 21 Part D: Implications For Public Policy; 22 17. The Global Environment: A National Security Issue; 23 18. Implications for Public Policy: Options for Action; 24 19. View from the North; 25 20. View from the South; 26 21. Political Leadership and the Brundtland Report: What Are the Implications for Public Policy; 27 22. Global Warming: Is It Real and Should It Be Part of a Global Change Program?; 28 Appendixes; 29 A: Program -- Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future; 30 B: Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members