Global Change and Our Common Future includes 22 edited presentations from the Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future. The Forum, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and Sigma Xi, was organized to inform the public about the changes occurring in the global environment and the implications for public policy.
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Part A: Society's Stake in Global Change
- 1. Toward a Global Environmental Policy
- 2. Global Change and Our Common Future: The Benjamin Frankline Lecture
- 3. Global Change and Carrying Capacity: Implications for Life on Earth
- Part B: The Earth System
- 4. The Earth System
- 5. Mission to Planet Earth Revisited
- 6. Historical Perspectives: Climatic Changes Throughout the Millennia
- 7. Mathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Warming: How Much Do We Know?
- 8. The Earth's Fragile Ozone Shield
- 9. Terrestrial Ecosystems
- 10. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
- 11. The Human Causes of Global Environmental Change
- Part C: Impacts of Global Change
- 12. What Does Global Change Mean for Society?
- 13. Impacts of Future Sea Level Rise
- 14. Threats to Biological Diversity as the Earth Warms
- 15. Deforestation and Its Role in Possible Changes in the Brazilian Amazon
- 16. Impacts of Global Change
- Part D: Implications For Public Policy
- 17. The Global Environment: A National Security Issue
- 18. Implications for Public Policy: Options for Action
- 19. View from the North
- 20. View from the South
- 21. Political Leadership and the Brundtland Report: What Are the Implications for Public Policy
- 22. Global Warming: Is It Real and Should It Be Part of a Global Change Program?
- Appendixes
- A: Program -- Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future
- B: Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members
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