True State of the Planet

Name: True State of the Planet
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ISBN: 9780028740102

ISBN-10: 0028740106

ISBN-13: 9780028740102

Edition: 1995

Authors: Ronald Bailey

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 5/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Contributors


Prologue: Environmentalism for the Twenty-first Century




Population, Food, and Income: Global Trends in the Twentieth Century




Saving the Planet with Pesticides: Increasing Food Supplies While Preserving the Earth's Biodiversity




Global Warming: Messy Models Decent Data, and Pointless Policy




The Coming Age of Abundance




The Causes and Prevention of Cancer: The Role of Environment




Forests: Conflicting Signals




Conserving Biodiversity: Resources for Our Future




Water Options for the Blue Planet




Rescuing the Oceans




Richer Is Cleaner: Long-Term Trends in Global Air Quality



Epilogue: Reappraising Humanity's Challenges, Humanity's Opportunities



Benchmarks: The Ecological and Economic Trends That Are Shaping the Natural Environment and Human Societies


Appendix: Limits of Statistical Certainty - The Case of Population, Food, and Income



Index


Acknowledgments