Challenges of a Changing Earth

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Opening Address
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   Chapter 2 Challenges of a Changing Earth
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   Chapter 3 Toward Integrated Land-Change Science: Advances in 1.5 Decades of Sustained International Research on Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
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   Chapter 4 Climate Variability and Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics: Implications for Sustainability
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   Chapter 5 Food in the 21 st Century: Global Climate of Disparities
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   Chapter 6 Equity Dimensions of Dam-Based Water Resources Development: Winners and Losers
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   Chapter 7 Atmospheric Chemistry in the “Anthropocene”
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   Chapter 8 Fires, Haze and Acid Rain: The Social and Political Framework of Air Pollution in ASEAN and Asia
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    Chapter 9 Carbon and the Science-Policy Nexus: The Kyoto Challenge
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    Chapter 10 Industry Response to the CO 2 Challenge
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    Chapter 11 Global Change and the Challenge for the Future
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    Chapter 12 Ocean Biogeochemistry: A Sea of Change
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    Chapter 13 The Past, Present and Future of Carbon on Land
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    Chapter 14 Can New Institutions Solve Atmospheric Problems? Confronting Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
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    Chapter 15 Emissions from the Oceans to the Atmosphere, Deposition from the Atmosphere to the Oceans and the Interactions Between Them
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    Chapter 16 The Impact of Dams on Fisheries: Case of the Three Gorges Dam
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    Chapter 17 Global Change in the Coastal Zone: The Case of Southeast Asia
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    Chapter 18 Climate Change Fore and Aft: Where on Earth Are We Going?
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    Chapter 19 Climate Change — Past, Present and Future: A Personal Perspective
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    Chapter 20 The Changing Cryosphere: Impacts of Global Warming in the High Latitudes
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    Chapter 21 The Coupled Climate System: Variability and Predictability
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    Chapter 22 Hot Spots of Land-Use Change and the Climate System: A Regional or Global Concern?
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    Chapter 23 Africa: Greening of the Sahara
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    Chapter 24 The Role of Large-Scale Vegetation and Land Use in the Water Cycle and Climate in Monsoon Asia
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    Chapter 25 Can Human-Induced Land-Cover Change Modify the Monsoon System?
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    Chapter 26 The Amazon Basin and Land-Cover Change: A Future in the Balance?
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    Chapter 27 Virtual Realities of the Past, Present and Future
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    Chapter 28 Coping with Earth System Complexity and Irregularity
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    Chapter 29 Simulating and Observing the Earth System: Summary
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    Chapter 30 Marine Biodiversity: Why We Need It in Earth System Science
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    Chapter 31 Does Biodiversity Matter to Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes and Services?
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    Chapter 32 Biodiversity Loss and the Maintenance of Our Life-Support System
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    Chapter 33 Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert — Or the Great Restoration of Nature: Why and How
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    Chapter 34 Industrial Transformation: Exploring System Change in Production and Consumption
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    Chapter 35 Will Technology Spare the Planet?
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    Chapter 36 Challenges and Road Blocks for Local and Global Sustainability
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    Chapter 37 Research Systems for a Transition Toward Sustainability
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    Chapter 38 Summary: Towards Global Sustainability
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    Chapter 39 Closing Address
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    Chapter 40 The Amsterdam Declaration on Global Change