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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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-412272023-11-11T05:28:46Z The Economics of Global Environmental Change - International Cooperation for Sustainability Cogoy, Mario Steininger, Karl W. 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). 2015-05-08T01:09:04Z 2015-05-08T01:09:04Z 2007 Book 978 1 84720009 9 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/41227 en application/pdf Edward Elgar
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description 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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The Economics of Global Environmental Change - International Cooperation for Sustainability
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title The Economics of Global Environmental Change - International Cooperation for Sustainability
title_short The Economics of Global Environmental Change - International Cooperation for Sustainability
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