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245 00 $aRegions at risk :$bcomparisons of threatened environments /$cedited by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B.L. Turner II.
260 $aTokyo :$bUnited Nations University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $aix, 588 pages :$bmaps, illustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aUNU studies on critical environmental regions
500 $a"This book has been published in cooperation with the Commission on Critical Environmental Situations and Regions, the International Geographical Union." -- t.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $g1.$tCritical environmental regions: Concepts, distinctions, and issues /$rRoger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, B. L. Turner II, Kirstin Dow and William B. Meyer --$g2.$tAmazonia /$rNigel J. H. Smith, Paulo de T. Alvim, Emanuel Adilson S. Serrao and Italo C. Falesi --$g3.$tThe Aral Sea basin /$rNikita F. Glazovsky --$g4.$tThe Nepal middle mountains /$rN. S. Jodha --$g5.$tThe Ukambani region of Kenya /$rDianne Rocheleau, Patricia Benjamin and Alex Diang'a --$g6.$tThe Llano Estacado of the American Southern High Plains /$rElizabeth Brooks and Jacque Emel --$g7.$tThe Basin of Mexico /$rAdrian Guillermo Aguilar, Exequiel Ezcurra, Teresa Garcia, Marisa Mazari Hiriart and Irene Pisanty --$g8.$tThe North Sea /$rJulie Argent and Timothy O'Riordan --$g9.$tThe Ordos Plateau of China /$rHong Jiang, Peiyuan Zhang, Du Zheng and Fenghui Wang --$g10.$tThe eastern Sundaland region of South-East Asia /$rLesley Potter, Harold Brookfield and Yvonne Byron --
505 80 $g11.$tComparisons and Conclusions /$rB. L. Turner II, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Kirstin Dow and William B. Meyer.
520 $aHuman-induced environmental change is to be found throughout the world, but there are areas that scientists consider to be "critical regions" - regions that are particularly vulnerable to or suffering from environmental degradation.
520 8 $aIn this volume nine such "critical environmental regions" (Amazonia, the Aral Sea basin, the middle mountains of Nepal, Kenya's Ukambani region, the US Southern High Plains, the Mexico Basin, the North Sea, the Ordos Plateau of China, and the eastern Sundaland region of South-East Asia) are examined as case-studies. In chapter one the authors provide a detailed look into the concepts of environmental criticality and endangerment and propose formal definitions.
520 8 $aThe nine regional studies that follow in the subsequent chapters serve to translate the conceptual framework into the physical and social realities of each area.
520 8 $aThe case-studies make available an up-to-date synthesis of vast amounts of inaccessible data, and as such will be valuable to scholars and policy makers interested in specific areas of the world and others interested in regional comparisons. Anyone concerned with global environmental change, criticality, human-environment interactions, and how societies in different regions have responded to environmental degradation will find much that is new and important in this pioneering, innovative study.
650 10 $aEnvironmental degradation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006466
700 1 $aKasperson, Jeanne X.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78000057
700 1 $aKasperson, Roger E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81119068
700 1 $aTurner, B. L.$q(Billie Lee),$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78032091
830 0 $aUNU studies on critical environmental regions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95058218
852 00 $bleh$hGE160$i.R44 1995g