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• Perspectives on the Biosphere
• Science and the Global Environment
• Man's Role in Managing the Global Environment
• The Impact of Life on the Planet Earth: Some General Considerations
• From Planetary Atmospheres to Microbial Communities: A Stroll Through Space and Time
• Sustainable Use of the Global Ocean
• Deforestation and the Extinction of Species
• Large-Scale Alteration of Biological Productivity Due to Transported Pollutants
• Food Problems in the Next Decades
• Soil Degradation and Conversion of Tropical Rainforests
• Nuclear Winter, Current Understanding, Some of the Ways that We Can Learn About Our Global Environment
• Modern Chemical Technologies for Assessment and Solution of Environmental Problems
• The Search for Non-renewable Resources in the Next Twenty Years
• Remote Sensing of Environmental Change in the Developing World
• The Application of Remote Sensing in South America: Perspectives for the Future Based on Recent Experiences
• Geographical Information Systems and Natural Resource Issues at the State Level
• The Global Environment Monitoring System and the Need for a Global Resource Database
• The Use of Remote Sensing to Assess Environmental Consequences of Energy Facilities
• Linking Ecological Networks and Models to Remote Sensing Programs
• Observing the Earth in the Next Decades
• Social and Economic Policy Issues
• Sustainable Futures: Some Economic Issues
• Ethical and Economic Systems for Managing the Global Commons
• Managing Natural Resources: The Local Level
• Social Values and Environmental Quality
• Technology and the Environment
• Management of High Technology: A Cure or Cause of Global Environmental Changes
• Better Resource Management Through the Adoption of New Technologies
• The Search for Effective Pollution Control Policies
• Index