Global Environmental Crises
An Introduction to Environmental Studies
Graeme Aplin, Paul Beggs, Gary Brierley, Peter Curson, Peter Mitchell, Andrew Pitman and David Rich
'This second edition of Global Environmental Crises: An Australian Perspective explores the pressing environmental problems facing the Earth from an Australian viewpoint. Case studies dealing with population and health, land, water, forests, the atmosphere, and cities illustrate a number of fundamental themes relevant to all such crises:
- humans play a pivotal role as both cause and potential solution
- environmental issues are complex and require interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches
- there is a need to achieve sustainability in all human activity
The concluding chapters bring the case studies together in a discussion about attempts at international cooperation and possible paths to a viable sustainable future.
This second edition which includes contributions from three additional authors, updates and expands the coverage of global and environmental crises, with new material on population, water and international cooperation. Global Environmental Crises provides a refreshingly different view of the crises we face and the ways in which they can be overcome. It is written for all students and teachers of environmental studies and science, and for practitioners in environmental fields.'
Global Environmental Crises: An Australian Perspective
Graeme Aplin, Paul Beggs, Gary Brierley, Peter Curson, Peter Mitchell, Andrew Pitman and David Rich
Second Edition
Oxford University Press
Melbourne
1999
ISBN 0 19 550827 0