The Economics of Global Environmental Change - International Cooperation for Sustainability
Worldwide, substantial changes in environmental and social indicators have been observed over the most recent decades. For example, in a few generations, humankind has embarked upon the process o f exhausting fossil fuel reserves that it took several hundred million years to generate. As a resul...
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Edward Elgar
2015
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| Tóm tắt: | Worldwide, substantial changes in environmental and social indicators have
been observed over the most recent decades. For example, in a few
generations, humankind has embarked upon the process o f exhausting fossil
fuel reserves that it took several hundred million years to generate. As a
result the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased by
more than 30 per cent since the beginning o f the Industrial Revolution and
that o f methane has increased by 100 per cent (IPCC, 2001a). Nearly half the
land surface has been transformed by direct human action so far, with
significant consequences for biodiversity, nutrient cycling, soil structure and
biology, and climate. More than one-fifth o f terrestrial ecosystems have been
converted into permanent croplands; most o f the temperate, old-growth
forest has been cut (GLP, 2005). In terms o f another crucial resource, water,
more than 50 per cent o f all accessible freshwater is used directly or
indirectly by humankind; our underground water resources are being
depleted rapidly (GWSP, 2005). |
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