Global Aspects of the Environment

This two-volume collection reprints pioneering journal articles from as far back as 1945 in the various aspects of global environmental issues. The 27 papers in the first volume address the ecological/biological perspective of human impacts on biosphere and gaia, and the physical economics perspective of materials energy, entropy and mass balance. Volume two offers 31 papers on the resource/environmental perspective of materials, energy, exergy, entropy and mass balance, and the limits and factors involved in sustainability and growth. Topics include human impacts on the nitrogen cycle, no-regret strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, wastes as raw materials, and dynamic macro modeling and materials balance for sustainable development. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR